Fragile Foundations FPS@XYZFree Painters and Sculptors at XYZ Gallery London 2025  Rosalind Barker Fragile Foundations Instalation Sculptural drawings series. FPS @XYZ 2025 ‘Fragile Foundations’ is a series of sculptural drawings. Rosalind playfully enfolded copies of the FT newspaper, muddying the meanings by washing texts with gesso, rubbing textures into the fine and pliable paper, adding graphite on lipstick pink mulberry paper, vibrant acrylic, ink and thread in hues of pink. The multiple media drawings mimic her thinking, upbeat and fun they dissolved and evolved in shape and form.  Fragile Foundations 1 Detail FT Newspaper, mulberry paper, cardboard, graphite, pencil, gesso, acrylic, Ink, thread The world and our understanding of the worlds real and imagined complexity has shifted. Her selection of the Financial Times newspaper as her support and subject is pertinent.Newspapers both reveal and conceal truth, regarded as a throw away object ‘old news’ they currently face the issue that content is outdated before it is printed. But the FT is a paradox, an historical document founded in 1888 its words and images lineage fix time frames. Its presence in the British Library contradicts its flimsy nature as both object and content. Its unbleached hue makes it noticed and environmentally in sync.  Fragile Foundations 2 and 3 FPS@XYZ 2025 Installation view  Installation video Fragile Foundations FPS@XYZ Different elements of the drawings in progress have been exhibited in LOADED COLOUR and FAPD Sometimes, Always, Never at Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Kent
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