Synopsis

Rose Finn-Kelcey’s art is always surprising. Provocative and often quietly humorous, it can catch you off-guard, making connections between the everyday and the spiritual, between the personal and the wider world. Her early work in the 1970s often involved performance while more recently she has created ambitious installations in a variety of museum and public contexts. Featuring many of the artist’s major works, this film profile offers a unique survey of Rose Finn-Kelcey’s inventive, layered and endlessly suggestive art.

Bureau de Change, first made in 1987, uses more than 12,000 coins to make an image of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”. Outside the Millennium Dome, she made It Pays to Pray, vending machines which dispensed not chocolate bars but non-denominational prayers. For her 2006 exhibition at MK-G in Milton Keynes she re-worked street signage and fairground art in three installations concerned with language and translation which were made partly as a response to a residency in China.

theEYE is an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provides an ideal resource for a wide range of audiences, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as individual art-lover.