Rosalind Howdle (b. 1997) is a British-American artist based in London. She is interested in what happens at the boundary between two entities – in the electric charge of the dividing line, which often splices the painting into above-ground and below-ground, into day and night, into the visible and invisible growth processes. Sliding between humour and horror, Rosalind Howdle’s paintings explore the uncanny. She plays upon the tradition of still life with her attention to colour, line and composition, but the nature of her subject matter subverts this. Within the themes of costume, mutation and body horror, these paintings toe the line between the disturbing and the playful.  

Howdle studied Painting at the Royal College of Art (2022) as a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship, and at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (2019). She has also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.) and Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Canada). She was awarded The Vanguard Prize in 2019, shortlisted for the Now Introducing Prize in 2022, and included in Artlyst’s Ones to Watch 2023. Howdle’s work has been exhibited internationally in London, Vancouver, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.