Now on view at David Zwirner Gallery, Paris, is a refreshing selection of new and recent canvases, multipanel works, and works on paper by British artist Rose Wylie. Rose Wylie. Wylie finds inspiration for her visually compelling paintings through her daily encounters and a variety of sources, from art history, cinema, comic books and the natural world to news, verbal anecdotes, celebrity stories and sport.

These might include a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s iconic Kill Bill films, a self-portrait of Wylie eating a chocolate biscuit, an olive oil label or a football match. Her vibrant, large-scale canvases find the walls of David Zwirner Gallery in Paris and the artist takes also reference to Paris and France in some of the exhibited works. For this exhibition, she turns to her long-held appreciation for the visionary French post-impressionist artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), whose original, oneiric compositions traverse the personal, the public, and the fantastical—much like Wylie’s.

Wylie has become known for her uniquely recognisable, colourful, and exuberant compositions that appear aesthetically candid, not seeming to align with any discernible style or movement, but on closer inspection are revealed to be wittily observed and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of visual representation itself.

Charting Wylie’s continued mediation and assimilation of publicly circulated imagery, the new paintings also incorporate aspects of art history as well as fleeting impressions from her domestic life. Across several works, the artist renders compositions inspired by an ancient Turkish mosaic whose discovery was reported on in broadcast news in 2016.

Wylie features figures—skeletal, a man reaching for the moon—alongside motifs such as an empty Egyptian-style chair and a damaged triangular piece of the mosaic. The color palette of ochres, umbers, and rusty reds recalls that of Fra Angelico’s frescoes—“not overwhelming, not strident,” in Wylie’s words.

ROSE WYLIE
DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY
PARIS, FRANCE
Through 23 May 2026
https://www.davidzwirner.com/
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