伦敦：The Residence将于2007年10月7日展出罗萨兰•达维斯（Rosalind Davis）作品：《我们曾在这里》。从伦敦到喀麦隆等多处景点得来的灵感，罗萨兰•达维斯将为观众呈现一个不祥的、危险的和浪漫的世界。
达维斯把人造结构和有机形状并列在一起，将绘制的后工业主义风景与刺绣和镶饰的运用相结合。人类存在的唯一证据通过她运用刺绣来表现。纺织的概念被绘画寻找新的自由和表达所推翻。刺绣的运用对照并突出了主体事物精致的和短暂的美。
罗萨兰•达维斯和弗雷迪•罗宾斯将围绕达维斯在The Residence的个展展开艺术家间的对话。二人都毕业于皇家艺术学院纺织系，达维斯是罗宾斯的学生之一。二人都在美术这一情景下运用纺织探索当代问题如身份和社会条件等。他们将就他们的作品、他们作品中摧毁传统工艺技术的经验以及在美术方面扩大运用纺织等问题进行讨论。
LONDON.- The Residence presents Rosalind Davis, We Were Here Once, on view through October 7, 2007. Inspired by a rich variety of locations from London to Cameroon, Rosalind Davis presents an ominous, threatening and romantic world.
Davis juxtaposes manmade structures with organic forms, combining painted post-industrial scenes with the use of embroidery and appliqué. The only evidence of human existence is rendered through her use of embroidery. Notions of textiles are subverted to find new freedoms and expressions in painting. Its use contrasts and highlights the delicate, ephemeral beauty of the subject matter.
Rosalind Davis and Freddie Robins will be conducting an artists' dialogue to coincide with Davis' solo show at The Residence. Both Davis and Robins are graduates of the Department of Textiles at the Royal College of Arts. Davis was one of Robin's students.
Both Robins and Davis use textiles in fine art contexts, exploring contemporary issues such as identity and social conditions. They will discuss their work and their experiences of subverting traditional craft techniques wihtin their work, as well as the increasing use of textiles within fine art. The floor will be open to a Q&A session afterwards.
Rosalind Davis is an MA graduate of The Royal Collage of Art. Her paintings are featured in public and private collections. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and recently joint exhibitions in London and Whitstable. Davis has just become a member of the Bermondsey Artists Group associated with Café Gallery Projects.
Freddie Robins is an artist, curator and tutor in the Department of Textiles at the Royal College of Art.
Freddie is an anarchic knitter, producing conceptually led knitted textile pieces. She has built up an extensive and innovative body of medium and small-scale figurative works that cross between the categorisations of art and craft. By using knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues Freddie continues to disrupt preconceptions of the medium as being feminine and non-threatening.
In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize: Textiles and had her first major solo exhibition, 'Cosy', at firstsite at the Minories in Colchester. In 2005 she curated 'Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting' for the Crafts Council and "Ceremony" at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London.
She currently has work in "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting", an international exhibition curated by the Museum of Art & Design, New York which is touring in the United States. Her solo exhibition, "Body, Nobody, Somebody" opens at the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen at the beginning of November.
She has work in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Crafts Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Nottingham Castle Museum.
Freddie is a graduate of Middlesex Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1989.