“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief … Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” The Talmud
Rosalyn Sober’s work is searching towards the light. Her practice addresses an unravelling of boundaries stretching out to the wider or ethereal plane. With elements to the dispossessed or forgotten, this is work on a threshold, and within a liminal space, looking to conjure or bring back; a whisper, a jolt, or perhaps the suggestion of a safe place, a refuge.
Rosalyn’s work spans elements of loss, identity and transformation but it is also a battle of a contradiction; a faint breath or acknowledgement of sentience to unclear or partially formed entities outside of a concrete reality. An embrace of the impossible?
Although her recent work has predominantly focussed on figurative images in oils, Rosalyn’s work is multi-faceted and mixed media, and she embraces diverse materials, including found items, plaster, chalks, glass and metals.
Rosalyn Sober (b.1967, London) trained at Central St Martins and the University of Hertfordshire, graduating in 2007 with a BA Hons 1st Class.
Rosalyn set up her studio practice in 2018.
In 2019 she also founded the annual Whitefriars Studios Sixth Form Youth Art Competition for the Harrow Area, set up as a free to enter community project, with the third annual Competition in 2021 (website whitefriars.org.uk).
Rosalyn has curated exhibitions, most notably a collection of 10 artists’ work centring on the Holocaust in a public space in Middlesex in 2015.