Rosie Hodgson Smith

I am a painter creating digitally and physically remediated works. Using contemporary techniques, I present speculative futures and possible pathways through digital landscapes and contemporary painting practices. Functioning as screens and palimpsests of the digital image age, the illusionary paintings are layered with internet archaeology utilising suggestions of image, infrastructure, and User Interfacing (UI).

I experience my attention and engagement becoming an online currency. Content is fed to me algorithmically and non-consensually as I lose the skill of searching. I feel disconnected both in the physical and digital realm, and want to question our relationship to these spaces and their symbology. In rebellion, my practice creates portals that destabilise perspectives and realise complex reflections on personal agency; imagining and occupying new spatial realities through image making. The materiality of hyperreal digital architecture eases in an unfamiliarity with space, meanwhile creating intrigue in image and perspective for personal exploration and choice.

Painting is constantly evolving with the mass of reference and multitudinous contexts that contemporary atemporal artists operate within. My work is simultaneously frozen and constantly loading, contrasting flatness//surface, visceral//ephemeral, Hardware//Software.

In this way, my work raises agent questions about digital non-consensual consumption and naturalised infrastructures through the autonomy of painting.