Jason Rouse
I am a multi-disciplinary artist creating work exploring conflict, community, immigration and simulation through the skewed view of contemporary internet culture. My work can take the form of computer games, sound, video, paintings and digital objects and is often immediate and reactive.
My interest lies in the unexplored middle ground between digital and traditional arts, using historical artistic and pop culture references simultaneously. Outcomes often arrive via re-appropriation and re-imagining of found source materials such as real-life topographies and situations via various digital tools. A narrative element can be incorporated into the work, typically alluding to political and social issues in an attempt to challenge the broader society. There is often an element of humour in the work which can be used as something of a coping mechanism or suggesting a possible alternative reality.
Jason Rouse (b. 1985, Ireland)
Work held in private collections including Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland, and Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London.
Qualifications and training:
2018 - Master of Fine Art (Distinction), Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales
2004 - BA hons Fine Art: Painting, Bath Spa University, Bath, United Kingdom
2003 - Foundation Diploma: Art, Limavady College, Limavady, United Kingdom
Selected exhibitions:
2021 - ISLAND Arts Virtual Exhibition, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
2020 - PLUG, Klatch Collective, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2020 - BEEP Painting Biennial, Swanseas, United Kingdom
2020 - A View from the Edge, M.A.D.E Gallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2019 - The Westmorland Landscape Prize, Rheged Centre, Cumbria, United Kingdom
2019 - SWAP Edition No.4 : BREX-kit, Creekside Projects, London, United Kingdom
2018 - Lumen Prize at Brighton Digital, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
2018 - Sideways into the Distance, Galerie RDV, Nantes, France
2018 - Everything’s Up For Sale, Penarth Pavilion Gallery, Penarth, United Kingdom
2018 - Things I Wish I’d Known, The Island Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
2016 - Evim, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
2016 - Breath of Nature, Boundary Art, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2014 - Made in Roath, SHO Gallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2014 - Far Lands, Millennium Galleries, Games Britannia Festival, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2014 - (Im)material Artefacts, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2010 - Goram & Vincent, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol Festival of Photography, Bristol, United Kingdom
2009 - Wayfaring, Stone Gallery, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
2008 - The Future of Contemporary Art, Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston Super Mare, United Kingdom
2008 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Arts Organisation, Nottingham, United Kingdom
2008 - Control Art Delete, Truman Brewery, London, United Kingdom
2008 - Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom
Recent Projects:
2016 - Postcards from Ankara
2016 - Half-Life: Crate Edition
2015 - Webcam en plein air
2014 - DayZ en plein air
2014 - Postcards from Mexico
Selected Press:
2016 - Simon Boase, Axis:
https://www.axisweb.org/artist-of-the-month/2016/june-jason-rouse/
2014 - Matteo Bittanti, Gamescenes:
http://www.gamescenes.org/2014/06/interview-jason-rouses-ludic-landscapes.html
2010 - Brian Stelter, New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/arts/television/28uncut.html?_r=0
