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Rose Finn-Kelcey

1945–2014

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy 1976
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Biography

Rose Finn-Kelcey (4 March 1945 – 13 February 2014) was a British artist, born in Northampton. Finn-Kelcey grew up in Buckinghamshire as part of a large farming family, and went on to study at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and later Chelsea College of Art in London. She died on 13 February 2014 of motor neurone disease. She lived and worked in London from 1968.

Finn-Kelcey worked in a variety of media including performance, video, sound, installation, sculpture, photography, papercut and posters.

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Performance art Feminist art

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The Restless Image: a discrepancy between the seen position and the felt position

Rose Finn-Kelcey
1975

The Magpie’s Box

Rose Finn-Kelcey
1977

Bureau de Change

Rose Finn-Kelcey
1987

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

Rose Finn-Kelcey
1976

Artist as subject

The Restless Image: a discrepancy between the seen position and the felt position

Rose Finn-Kelcey
1975

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