Rosetta Windows Gallery, at the Rathbone Market, Canning Town, was featured in the local press. Come down and see the exhibition for yourself!

Capture is an exhibition of photographs from AS and ABC Level students from Rosetta Arts Centre. The artworks on display were created from a range of ideas and concepts, both from the students’ own personal ideas, as well as from the set theme of Mystery & Imagination. See flyer below for details of the opening event and dates the exhibition is on.

Join us for the official opening of the new Rosetta Windows Gallery at the Rosetta Rathbone Art Studios at 2.30pm Friday 25th July:

An exhibition of monoprinting by the Professional Development Group.

“I’ve always had a love of printmaking because of the magic and alchemy of it all.

You never really know how it’s going to be until you turn the paper over.” – Tracy Emin

Over the course of five weeks members of Rosetta Art Centre’s Professional Development Group ventured on a journey of magic and alchemy, of experimentation with mark-making and colour within a medium that, as Tracy Emin says, never quite turns out how you think it might when you lift up the paper.

Monoprinting is about the unexpected, about taking what comes and working with it, changing it, cropping it and drawing or painting into it to create something that works as a piece of art, whether it be figurative or abstract, without losing the unique self-expression that comes from the individual artist, using the strengths and subtleties of mark and tone that they alone produced.

The work in this exhibition is the result of this process.  Some of the artists have developed their experiments into a series of themed works such as landscape, natural form, movement, while others have produced stand-alone works, each with their own mood and story to tell.

Either way, all of the work on display has emerged from the magic and alchemy that we’ve taken as the title for the exhibition, a mixture of play and deliberation, of tone, texture, line and mark-making….of lifting up the paper, taking what comes and working with it.

Magic and Alchemy is a free exhibition and will be opened by Cllr Bryan Collier at Stratford Old Town Hall on Thursday 3 March 2011 6-8pm. The exhibition runs until 31st March.

The Imagining Identity project organised by Rosetta Art Centre, exhibited in Canary Wharf shopping centre until May 24th 2011.

YNA’s featured in E16 News

The YNAs studio at Rathbone Market is featured in the monthly newsletter of SISK, building contractors for the redevelopment of the Rathbone Market area:

Imagining Identity is an international photography project that was written and managed by Rosetta Art Centre (RAC).  The project was a collaboration between the Iranian Youth Development Association (IYDA) from London, UK, the Omid-e-Mehr Foundation (OeM) in Terhan, Iran and RAC London, UK. Participants from IYDA and

the OeM rehabilitation centre were responding to the same brief of creativelyexpressing their feelings about identity through photography. The resulting work is of exceptional quality and will tour as an exhibition through Iran, the UK and the USA.  A selection of the exhibition is currently on showat the Greenwich Heritage Centre as part of Black History Month.  To find out more about this project please follow this link.. http://talesofthings.com/search/?q=iranian+youth

Rosetta Art Centre’s Professional Development Group (PDG) took part in the Stratford Everyday exhibition organised by English Heritage. The works on show in the exhibition celebrated the communities that live in Stratford and the places that shape their lives. The artworks were exhibited at the Theatre Royal Stratford East from 25th July – 8th August 2010.

Here are a selection of quotes from the visitors book:

“An array of perspectives – nicely selected work.”
“Shows how fond people are of Stratford.”
“Conveys ‘Stratford’ atmosphere very well.”
“Very enjoyable, inspires one about the area.”
“A fascinating portrayal of the colour and vibrancy of Stratford. Let’s be positive about the Olympics! They won’t not happen – we should all enjoy the event and the new park.”
“Lovely – made me look at Stratford in a new light.”
“Very interesting work by the different communities!”

The Professional Development Group (PDG) have an exhibition of abstract paintings at Vicarage Lane Health Centre. The exhibition is of course free and open to the public during the Health Centre’s opening hours.

The exhibition is on until the 15th October 2010.

All works in the exhibition are for sale. If you are interested in buying an artwork please contact us here at Rosetta Art Centre.

The launch event for the Rosetta Art exhibition at Stratford Old Town Hall was a fantastic success. It was opened by Councillor Crawford who gave a welcoming and inspiring speech about the importance of visual art in the local community, and was attended by over 100 people.

“The visual arts benefit our community and it is fantastic that we can celebrate this through the work that Rosetta Art Centre does” – Councillor Crawford.

“It’s so great that Newham council is supporting Rosetta’s initiative for bringing local art into the local community and celebrating the achievements and talents of the exhibiting artists” – Sanaz Amidi, Head of Rosetta Art Centre.

Here are some pictures from the event: