Rose Butler was short listed for this years Jerwood Prize for Moving Image alongside Kypros Kyprianou. She recently screened work at at Evolution Festival; Leeds, Hull Time Based Arts and G39 Gallery; Cardiff. Last year selected work was shown at the New Briggate Gallery; Leeds, Manchester Urban Screens, Site Gallery; Sheffield, Cornerhouse; Manchester, Star and Shadow; Newcastle and exhibited at Interval; Manchester. BOX was nominated by AZYL; Slovakia for competition, it was also chosen to represent Western Europe in the One Minute Awards; Amsterdam.
Her recent piece of work TENT was exhibited at the Millennium Galleries; Sheffield, as part of Lovebytes 2007 and she exhibited a selection of screen-based work at Consortium Gallery; Amsterdam. In 2006 she was commissioned by FACT and BBC Big-Screen; Liverpool to produce an interactive installation for Art and Architecture Week. This work launched Through and Far Between, a programme of contemporary screen based work: www.37Seconds.co.uk. 2005 she was commissioned by Corridor Arts to produce STALL which toured 3 venues. STALL consisted of a life size replica of a local fruit and vegetable market alongside a four screen, interactive and sychronised animation.
Rose received an award at the Becks Futures Student Prize for Digital Video 2004 for the multi-screen animation Platform. It was screened nationally including the Centre for Contemporary Art; Glasgow and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art; London.
Rose is a lecturer of Fine Art and Contemporary Media Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Before she came to Sheffield she lived and worked in London where she founded the educational charity Zoom In Photography and worked at Chisenhale Studios as Education Co-ordinator. She has worked freelance for Site Gallery; Sheffield, Tate Britain and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and provided master classes and artist talks for festivals, arts organisations and universities.