Rose Wylie valuation
Paints films, footballers and half-remembered images on huge unprimed canvases, and found fame in her seventies.
Rose Wylie was born at Hythe in Kent in 1934 and studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art from 1952 to 1956, then trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths, where she met her husband, the painter Roy Oxlade.
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Bio
Rose Wylie was born at Hythe in Kent in 1934 and studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art from 1952 to 1956, then trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths, where she met her husband, the painter Roy Oxlade. She stopped painting to bring up their children and did not return to it until the late 1970s, taking an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1981, aged forty-seven. Recognition came late. She won the John Moores Painting Prize in 2014, was elected to the Royal Academy in 2015, and had solo exhibitions at Tate Britain in 2013 and the Serpentine in 2017. In February 2026 she became the first British woman to fill the Royal Academy's main galleries with a solo exhibition, The Picture Comes First.
The paintings are large and made on unstretched, unprimed canvas, often with collaged corrections and written words, and her subjects come from films, sport, magazines and memory. Most of what comes to market is recent work through her galleries, along with works on paper and prints. For a canvas, provenance and exhibition history are the questions.
Newnham, Film Notes and the Royal Academy
Wylie and Oxlade moved to Newnham in Kent in 1968, and she has worked there since. Her Film Notes series draws on scenes and stars from cinema, among them the films of Quentin Tarantino.
In 2010 she was the only artist from outside the United States in the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.
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