LONDON.- The Residence presents Rosalind Davis, We Were Here Once, on view through October 7, 2007. Inspired by a rich variety of locations from London to Cameroon, Rosalind Davis presents an ominous, threatening and romantic world.

Davis juxtaposes manmade structures with organic forms, combining painted post-industrial scenes with the use of embroidery and appliqu�. The only evidence of human existence is rendered through her use of embroidery. Notions of textiles are subverted to find new freedoms and expressions in painting. Its use contrasts and highlights the delicate, ephemeral beauty of the subject matter.

Rosalind Davis and Freddie Robins will be conducting an artists' dialogue to coincide with Davis' solo show at The Residence. Both Davis and Robins are graduates of the Department of Textiles at the Royal College of Arts. Davis was one of Robin's students.

Both Robins and Davis use textiles in fine art contexts, exploring contemporary issues such as identity and social conditions. They will discuss their work and their experiences of subverting traditional craft techniques wihtin their work, as well as the increasing use of textiles within fine art. The floor will be open to a Q&A session afterwards.

Rosalind Davis is an MA graduate of The Royal Collage of Art. Her paintings are featured in public and private collections. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and recently joint exhibitions in London and Whitstable. Davis has just become a member of the Bermondsey Artists Group associated with Caf� Gallery Projects.

Freddie Robins is an artist, curator and tutor in the Department of Textiles at the Royal College of Art.

Freddie is an anarchic knitter, producing conceptually led knitted textile pieces. She has built up an extensive and innovative body of medium and small-scale figurative works that cross between the categorisations of art and craft. By using knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues Freddie continues to disrupt preconceptions of the medium as being feminine and non-threatening.

In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize: Textiles and had her first major solo exhibition, 'Cosy', at firstsite at the Minories in Colchester. In 2005 she curated 'Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting' for the Crafts Council and "Ceremony" at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London.

She currently has work in "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting", an international exhibition curated by the Museum of Art & Design, New York which is touring in the United States. Her solo exhibition, "Body, Nobody, Somebody" opens at the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen at the beginning of November.
She has work in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Crafts Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Nottingham Castle Museum.

Freddie is a graduate of Middlesex Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1989.