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.’