Rosie Pettenon

Rosie Pettenon’s multidisciplinary practice moves between and at times combines painting, and sculpture.

These works frequently sample from the slipstream of popular culture, clashing disparate narrative frames into singular, saturated images that mimic the disjointed logic of dreams, or digital scrolls. Often layered and blurred, they privilege the anatomy of memory over literal documentation, stripping the subjects of immediate context to interrogate her experiences. The resulting surfaces act as sites of both erasure and preservation, transforming cultural iconography into intimate spaces. 

While her paintings prioritise complexity in image, Pettenon’s sculptures oscillate between the familiar and the uncanny, where everyday objects are transformed through shifts in scale, surface and context. Saturated colour, handwritten text and tactile material combinations become vehicles for narrative, inviting playful yet poignant encounters that blur the boundaries between function and fiction.
Across these varied forms, her work reanimates the profound expectancy of stepping into a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and where the impossible feels entirely true and imminent.