ABOUT THE WORK

Made exclusively for FRIENDS of CAMPLE LINE, artist Bryony Rose has created a limited edition print, based on a preliminary drawing for her ceramic relief work Biting Point 2, which was included in her solo exhibition at Cample Line,  Loves Bites (29 June – 31 August 2025). In Biting Point 2, a sheep motif is endlessly repeated over what appears to be a field and the presence of a car door and a rolled-down window give a sense of moving through or stalling, a restlessness for what is ahead. 

For the exhibition, Bryony drew upon her last summer spent in Dumfriesshire before moving to Glasgow aged 17, framed by memories of an ‘all consuming first love and the draining feeling of being at home and with my family at that time’. She has recalled: ‘The clegs were particularly intense that summer, biting my molescattered skin.’ Horseflies feature in the exhibition embedded in fleshy pink bites rendered as concentric raised circles in a series of sculptural ceramic reliefs. 

Challenging the pastoral language of traditional decorative ceramics, Bryony tells semi-autobiographical stories of longing and restlessness that foreground the at times abrasive, repetitive and banal aspects of adolescent rural experience.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Raised in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Bryony Rose studied painting and drawing at The Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2015, where she received the W O Hutcheson Prize for Drawing. She lived and worked in Margate from 2019 to 2024, and is now based in a studio at Govan Project Space.Recent exhibitions include: Blinking, glare (Quench Gallery, Margate 2024), Night Jar (Kiosk, Glasgow 2023), Glass Houses (McBeans Nursery, Lewes 2020), The Reception Was Brilliant (Open School East, Margate 2019), digging (Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh 2018) Say What I am Called (Glasgow International 2018). In 2024 Bryony collaborated with Extra Well (Well Projects) to create a limited edition print. She was an Associate at Open School East in 2019

HOW TO BUY: CAMPLE LINE holds a range of limited edition works by the artists included in our programme. We also invite the artists we exhibit to produce new limited edition prints especially for us. All income supports our programme.