Rosanne Walsh (b. 1964, Woonsocket, Rhode Island) works primarily in collage and assemblage, building layered compositions from discarded and found materials that place human systems — religious, political, social — in stark conversation with the enduring rhythms of the natural world. Her practice proceeds as a sustained meditation on misalignment: the persistent, foundational error of believing that human life sits atop a hierarchy rather than within one. Walsh's process is as much phenomenological as it is compositional. Working intuitively with paper, found objects, paint, and stitch, she submits to the material logic of her sources — tearing and resewing, scratching apart surfaces, allowing accidental adhesions to redirect her thinking. The resulting works are intimate and accumulative, drawing on geological time, ecological entanglement, and personal memory with equal weight. Mark-making threatens to overwhelm; she holds it in check. The tension is the point. Her collage works have appeared in Cut Me Up Magazine and in the international touring exhibition Unconnected Yet, produced by The Boston Bengal Bridge and presented in Kolkata, India and Lorne, Australia. Assemblage works were included in Imploding Meaning (2023) at Vassar College's Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers, New York, in group presentations including Memento Mori, The Wild Side, Soul Works, and Just Friends. Walsh holds a BFA in Film, Video, and Animation from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.Ed in Arts in Education and Curriculum Design from Lesley University. After more than two decades as a public school art educator, she lives and maintains a studio practice in Connecticut.
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