Katarina Rose ‘Alias 2013 – 2020’
A hyper- normal backdrop spawns fake saints and bad seeds
Walk slowly in your wonder…sleep naked, talk to trees
The Last Wilderness
The Last wilderness (Detail)
The Greatest Lover That Never Was
The Last Ballet
A Third Eye
Charlie Isn’t Funny Anymore
Charlie Isn’t Funny Anymore
I Hear You Little Voice
You Can Never Hold Back Spring
The Music is Gonna Find You (Keep wearing the shoes)
Captured Tropical Ghost
Dove in the City
Shipwrecked Bride
Shipwrecked Bride (detail)
Shipwrecked Bride (detail)
SING!
I am nothing except what i am 2
I Am Nothing Except What I Am (detail)
St.Bernard
St. Agatha
The Sultan of Somewhere
The Moment You Know, You Know You Know
The Moment You Know, You Know You Know (detail)
Naked Spring Dance
Goodnight Beautiful Dreamer I
Goodnight Beautiful Dreamer II
Goodnight Beautiful Dreamer III
I Was Here
I Was Here (detail)
Unk
Unk (detail)
Tree In The City
Sleeping White
A Dream waiting to be Born 4
A Dream Waiting To Be Born
A City Waiting To Be Born
Sitting Inside Summer With Leonard
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools (detail)
Sea View
Ships In The Night
Ships in The Night
Ships in the Night (detail)
Ships In The Night
Ships In The Night
Ships in The Night
Ships In The Night (detail)
That Girl
Standing On An Air Wave
Standing On An Air Wave (detail)
Stowaway
In The Kingdom of Yellow in Walked Blue
Seed of Change
Seed of Change (detail)
The Annual Motivation Convention
The Annual Motivation Convention (detail)
Carpe Diem I
Carpe Diem II
Carpe Diem III
Carpe Diem
I Can’t Even Remember What It Was I Came Here To Get Away From
I Can’t Even Remember What It Was I Came Here To Get Away From
I Came Back
I AM
I Lost Your Number
Medicine For The Soul
Fools Gold
I Could Hear You But I Never Saw You
It All Happened One Ordinary Afternoon
It All Happened One Ordinary Afternoon
Sleeping On A Sound Wave
Simon Says
Fiberace
You Started A Fire In The Ice Caves Of My Being
Homeland
My Inner Beast
My Inner Clown
My Inner Sex God
My Inner Rock Star
My Inner Goddess
My Inner Guru
Free Falling
I Will Guard My Songs With My Life
In 2013 I created an alias ‘Katarina Rose’ and I began working under my two names with two distinctly different bodies of work. I exhibited in two ‘joint’ shows as both Rose and Lindqvist before deciding to concentrate primarily on the Katarina Rose work. The birth of this alias offered me artistic freedom and also reflected a return to the early art practices I had enjoyed as a student. It felt like a more authentic direction and greater reflected my ideas at this time. She also represented a more courageous and experimental figure for me and came at a time of great personal change.
I created dioramas with found objects, taxidermy, painted and sculpted forms, and often included stories or poems. I experimented with light and sound and received Arts Council Funding to take this work out of the gallery setting and into the realm of ‘Public Art’. This culminated in a 6-piece art trail called ‘Strangers’ for b-side festival in 2016.
I also created an imaginary alternative world called ‘The Field’ that is home to 26 anthropomorphic taxidermy animals each with their own fictional life and box art diorama. Their characters are based on my observations of human behaviour and the strange stories we like to tell. This work is permanently on display at The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London.
My work under Katarina Rose looked at social structures, organised religion, gender based prejudices, the use of humour, heroism, archetypes, idealism, and the layers of human deception that often mask the greater truths. I exhibited extensively under this alias and most notably within the curated show at the RWA ‘Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter.’