Colin Rose

Colin Rose is a trained and practising architect who uses art, craft and making as a means to grasp something essential about a particular place. Without “a vision of art to press upon [a site]”, he describes his site-specific process of practice a never-ending one, organically driven, incomplete and natural.

“I was drawn to a doorway. A doorway at the base of a tall concrete defense wall. A doorway to nothing, of course, but that by some feeling of deliberateness in its sheltered placing (nestled in a corner, the theatre of passers-by above, heard but out of sight) would seem to hint that it could lead somewhere else…”

Rose would like to put a door in a doorway, and fill the space behind it full of games and dust and sand. Come and see this magical place as it gradually decays under the footsteps of Margate, crumbling like the cliff it sits in.

Colin Rose is creating this new work for Margate Rocks 08.

Colin Rose is currently working on a project for the Royal College of Art. He works for Haworth Tompkins, who were runners-up in the Stirling Prize 2007 for the Young Vic Theatre, London.

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