Tabitha Rose is a London based artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing and writing. 

She is currently interested in girlhood as a lens of seeing that exists inside womanhood. This concept is rich with in-between states like sexuality and childhood longing, intimacy and loneliness, awareness of surveillance and the self. Holding both confessional and universal narratives, the paintings weave between personal introspection and cultural dialogues. Acidic paint dissolves into a muted palette and thicker impasto textures interact with dripping washes to create a surreality in domestic spaces. Here memory, imagination, reality and our own gaze meet. A kind of tense push and pull develops between things, within the layered narratives, and between the viewer and the canvas as well.

The paintings derive from imaginative drawing, studies of close friends, herself, and emotion-coded colours. Wobbly rooms become more than backdrops, instead can be read as internal landscapes, stimulating atmosphere or meaning of the scene itself. Each figure is painted full of tactile tenderness, with a somatic sense and as vessels for psychological intensity. Overarching in her body of work is a desire to question consent, in terms of how we are seen empathetically and how we are looked at objectively.