Ecological artist based in London, working across performance-based image making and
experimental photography.

rosie.harvey-otway@hotmail.com

︎ @_rosa_leigh

Artist Statement
Rosaleigh Harvey-Otway’s practice is a quiet exhale, a dreaming body. Using analogue photography and moving image developed with her own plant-based chemistry, she creates performance-based, site-responsive and durational works which hope to offer somatic, slow, and gentle modes of interacting with the more-than-human world. Rosaleigh’s work gestures towards a ‘radical gentleness’ with place: an embodied, feminist and queer practice that seeks to quietly subvert the reductive binaries and drives to productivity within extractive relationships to land. In doing so, she attempts to utilise the intangible, liminal, and fluctuating nature of the sites she works with as spaces for reimagining, dreaming and becoming-with place. Rosaleigh’s current work encompasses a long-term collaboration with an area of London’s marshland, wherein the shared fluidity of body and marsh becomes both her subject and medium, as they curl around one another in a permeable, shifting and boundless embrace.

Rosaleigh is a visual artist based in London, and holds an MA in Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths University. She has exhibited internationally, participated in residencies with institutions such as Tate Modern and Artscape Toronto, and created commissioned works for arts festivals in the UK.


Education
MA Art & Ecology, Goldsmiths University of London 2023/24
Fine Art Painting, Edinburgh College of Art 2015