Rose Montebello, Safe Passage, 2014. Laser copy prints, paper and wood, 23 x 45 cm.
Rose Montebello’s intricately cut and layered works of art examine human experience, temporality and transcendence. Montebello draws on images of landscape, the animal kingdom, weather or events in the natural world for their ability to invoke associations between the terrible magnificence of nature and the internal landscape of emotion and experience. Recent works use found images selected from vintage encyclopaedias as a starting point. The original images are altered through the processes of reproduction and dissection before being reconstructed into geometric collage or layered assemblage.
Rose Montebello is a print based artist who lives and works in Canberra. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours in Printmedia and Drawing at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University in 2000. Rose has exhibited consistently throughout Canberra and its surrounding regions since graduating.
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Rose Montebello, Mirror, 2014.
Rose Montebello, Lock, 2014.