Jude Rose was born in Darwin and spent her early childhood in Australia and Malaysia. She then lived in Paris, France. After travelling extensively throughout the world studying various printing and painting techniques, she now lives in Sydney, where she teaches and paints full time.
Jude's work employs vivid rich colours and textures to create naive and yet very sophisticated paintings, drawings and linocuts. Her prints and paintings are represented in art galleries and private collections throughout Australia, America and Europe.
"My recent works delve deeper into the spiritual connection I have with the upper blue mountains and it’s magnificent gardens, my home now for the past 2 years. The light, the skies and the huge and diverse variety of flora and fauna continues to fascinate and overwhelm me… providing endless inspiration for my drawings on wood, linocuts, and oils on canvas.
Most of these works have been produced in my Leura studio.… a time of deep reflection and exploration, and focus on what truly matters to me, nature and creativity, self-expression, connection with land, and our ancestral heritage.
I feel very privileged to be part of this region, having always been drawn to its deep mysticism and spirituality.
Since I’ve been living here, I’ve spent every day painting - enjoying long walks in suburban streets and the bush tracks around Leura, Katoomba, Blackheath and Mt Victoria. I am constantly sketching and then compiling imagery from loose drawings, allowing the artwork to take me on a journey, one area leading to another, without preconceptions, a process I find essential for the result to be from deep within, an intuitive process where I seem to become a medium in a meditative state."
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Quintessence, Rex-Livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba 2023 Bathers Pavilion, Survey Exhibition
2022 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, Finalist
2022 Arborescence Jude Rose & Edward Wray-Bliss, Rex-Livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba
2021 Double J, Jude Rose and Judi Moss, Rex-Livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba
2020 Resurgence, Rex-livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba
2019 ASMA National Miniature Awards, finalist
2019 Hunters Hill Art Prize, finalist, Highly commended prize 2019 Eutierria solo exhibition Artsite, Sydney 2018 Miniature Art Prize Most Innovative award
2018 Pirtek Art Prize, Finalist
2018 Esprit de Corps exhibition Artsite
2018 Hunters Hill Art Prize, Finalist 2018 Joie de Vivre Artsite 2018 Collectors Choice exhibition Artsite
2017 Rust Avalon Alchemy 2017 Mosman Art Prize, Finalist 2017 Hunters Hill Art Prize, Finalist
2017 Lethbridge Art Prize, Finalist
2017 Miniature Art Prize, Finalist
2016 Artspace Wollongong
2016 Avalon Art Gallery
2016 Rust Avalon Lush
Prizes
2023 Finalist, The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize
2023 Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
Finalist, Murwillumbah Regional Gallery, Landscape Prize
Bowral Landscape Prize, highly commended
Second Prize Wollongong Regional Gallery
Highly commended Miniature Art Prize, Willoughby Art Centre, The Ewart Gallery
Highly commended Miniature Art Prize Thirroul