rose is a rose is a rose aka @roseproject24 began as breakfast table chat between Belinda and three friends on New Years Day 2024. Reminiscing about long ago times when we had all finished studying, and the ways we found to communicate creatively before the internet. We sent handmade postcards, wrote illustrated letters - one friend collected detritus from his day and photocopied it as a kind of journal...
And so from that table chat the idea was formed for each of those friends to exchange a postcard of a red rose with Belinda. Then four became six, became twelve , became twenty four and now we have over 150 artist red rose postcards in a shoe box which travel the world with pop up shows and, when possible, larger selected works and soirees of poetry, performance, perfume and music
Almost from the very start three important artist collaborators each came forward to offer more than their postcard and so a team has formed, Belinda, Caroline, Mary and Fiona. Together we are @roseproject24
Belinda exchanges postcards, Caroline curates, Mary creates floral interventions, Fiona designs
Belinda Worsley is a visual artist and curator currently based in the English Lake District. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from Maidstone College of Art in 1986 . From 1994 until 2007 she lived in Italy, where she combined her own art practise with work in prop-making, model-making and scenery painting. She has exhibited widely in Italy, London, Penzance and Los Angeles. Recently she completed the Turps Mass Sculpture Correspondence Course and Studio Programme in London ( 2021 - 2024). Worsley conceived and co-curates falling faintly faintly falling and rose is a rose is a rose, two ongoing international artist postcard exchange projects, expanding them into a series of exhibitions across London, Paris, Milan and New York. Alongside her artistic practise , Worsley is a gardener, wanderer and browser of second-hand bookshops.
Caroline McCambridge Desire and domesticity, lament and failure, glamour and fashion are explored through juxtapositions that transform the everyday. Caroline McCambridge is an Irish artist living and working in London. She studied at Glasgow School of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Turps Art School (Off-site)
Mary Mathieson BA Brighton 1986, MA RCA 1989. Exhibited Tokyo, Kyoto, Krakow, London 1991 - 2025. Works on film and TV costume and props. Set decorator and Florist.
Fiona White is a printmaker and works from her studio in SE London. BA Chelsea, 1990, MA Brighton, 2010. Exhibitions include RE International Print, RA Summer Exhibition, Warbling Collective, On Paper International Print/Barcelona. Senior Lecturer in Design since 2007.