Interested in our human need for meaning, Lily Rose Fine examines what devotion looks like in a modern context, through potent symbolism, memorabilia, and art making as an attempt at an afterlife. Within a collected language of iconography inspired by relics, antique objects, cinema, theatre, and art history, she casts herself and those close to her as recurring actors that embody narratives of intimacy, obsession, preservation, and privacy. Fine often uses antiques and found objects as extensions of her paintings. Thinking about everyday personal belongings as relics and devotional objects, she grasps at an elusive feeling within everything she makes; one that captures the eery mystery of encountering the public future of private, personal, anonymous ephemera. Depicting her own ineffable personal experiences veiled with ambiguity, she invites a collaboration with viewers’ inquiries, projections and instinctive storytelling, often becoming a mirror for self-reflection.

Lily Rose Fine (B. 1997 London, UK) is a British/Canadian painter. She completed her Bachelors of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2019 and graduated from the The Drawing Year scholarship program at the Royal Drawing School in 2023. Her paintings are included in the Royal collection, Sir Mike Moritz collection, and private collections internationally.