Rose Garrard
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Rose Garrard is an installation, video and performance artist, sculptor, and author. Her artworks have been acquired by collections worldwide including the New South Wales
government Art Gallery in Australia.
Garrard's works have also been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum
, the Tate Gallery
, and national galleries in Austria and Canada. Garrard's parents were also involved in art, and while she was still a baby, the family moved to Malvern, Worcestershire
where her mother owned an antique shop, and her father continued a career as an artist and soldier as director of the Middle East College of Art in the Sahara Desert. For 30 years Garrard was based in London and internationally known as a multi-media artist and curator, but following a serious motor bike accident she moved back to Worcestershire in 2000, focussing instead on making public sculpture. She creates these works using many media including plaster of Paris, bronze, stone, slate, and brick.
, and her research carried out in 2006 demonstrated for the first time that well dressing
has been part of tradition in the Malvern area since the 12th and 13th centuries. In 2001, she began organising the well dressing campaign in Malvern which has become an annual event with over 28 wells being dressed.
As an author, Garrard has written three books based on Malvern, including two about aspects of the springs, and A Malvern Treasury published in 2010, that was written on the recommendation of a local bookshop, Beacon Books, due to previous comprehensive histories of the town by other authors being out of print.
(Unveiled by The Duke of York
on Belle Vue Terrace, Malvern on 26 May 2000).
Its cost of £50,000 was funded by the Malvern Hills District Council, public subscription, and support from by West Midlands Arts, Severn Trent Water, and local businesses. Other works include the drinking spout, Malvhina, which was unveiled on 4 September 1998, the Hand of Peace war memorial, a sculpture in Portland stone
located in the Barnards Green
suburb of Malvern, Women's Work 1998, in Bilston
, Wolverhampton
, England, created in bronze, Welsh slate, and brick,
and the Cascade Gates 2007, in welded steel at the Clock Tower Well Room in North Malvern
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Rose Garrard is an installation, video and performance artist, sculptor, and author. Her artworks have been acquired by collections worldwide including the New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
government Art Gallery in Australia.
Garrard's works have also been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
, and national galleries in Austria and Canada. Garrard's parents were also involved in art, and while she was still a baby, the family moved to Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, governed by Malvern Town Council. As of the 2001 census it has a population of 28,749, and includes the historical settlement and commercial centre of Great Malvern on the steep eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, and the former...
where her mother owned an antique shop, and her father continued a career as an artist and soldier as director of the Middle East College of Art in the Sahara Desert. For 30 years Garrard was based in London and internationally known as a multi-media artist and curator, but following a serious motor bike accident she moved back to Worcestershire in 2000, focussing instead on making public sculpture. She creates these works using many media including plaster of Paris, bronze, stone, slate, and brick.
Historian and author
Garrard became heavily involved with the restoration of the local springs and the history of Malvern, WorcestershireMalvern, Worcestershire
Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, governed by Malvern Town Council. As of the 2001 census it has a population of 28,749, and includes the historical settlement and commercial centre of Great Malvern on the steep eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, and the former...
, and her research carried out in 2006 demonstrated for the first time that well dressing
Well dressing
Well dressing is a summer custom practised in rural England in which wells, springs or other water sources are decorated with designs created from flower petals...
has been part of tradition in the Malvern area since the 12th and 13th centuries. In 2001, she began organising the well dressing campaign in Malvern which has become an annual event with over 28 wells being dressed.
As an author, Garrard has written three books based on Malvern, including two about aspects of the springs, and A Malvern Treasury published in 2010, that was written on the recommendation of a local bookshop, Beacon Books, due to previous comprehensive histories of the town by other authors being out of print.
Works (selection)
Among her sculptures are the Enigma Fountain including the statue of Sir Edward ElgarEdward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
(Unveiled by The Duke of York
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Prince Andrew, Duke of York KG GCVO , is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
on Belle Vue Terrace, Malvern on 26 May 2000).
Its cost of £50,000 was funded by the Malvern Hills District Council, public subscription, and support from by West Midlands Arts, Severn Trent Water, and local businesses. Other works include the drinking spout, Malvhina, which was unveiled on 4 September 1998, the Hand of Peace war memorial, a sculpture in Portland stone
Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major...
located in the Barnards Green
Barnards Green
Barnard's Green is one of the main population areas of Malvern, Worcestershire, England, situated approximately downhill from Great Malvern, the town's traditional centre...
suburb of Malvern, Women's Work 1998, in Bilston
Bilston
Bilston is a town in the English county of West Midlands, situated in the southeastern corner of the City of Wolverhampton. Three wards of Wolverhampton City Council cover the town: Bilston East and Bilston North, which almost entirely comprise parts of the historic Borough of Bilston, and...
, Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
, England, created in bronze, Welsh slate, and brick,
and the Cascade Gates 2007, in welded steel at the Clock Tower Well Room in North Malvern
North Malvern
North Malvern is a suburb of Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It nestles on the northern slopes of the Malvern Hills. It is a contiguous urban extension of Link Top, and other neighbouring centres of population are Great Malvern, Malvern Link, West Malvern and the former village of Cowleigh...
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Publications
- Malvern: Hill of Fountains - Ancient Origins, Beliefs and Superstitions surrounding Wells and Well Dressing (2006) Aspect Design ISBN 1905795017
- Donkeys’ Years on the Malvern Hills (2008) Aspect Design ISBN 9781905795185
- A Malvern Treasury, (2010) Aspect Design ISBN 9781905795567