Sydney Rose has been destroying books and telling stories with scissors and glue, habitually, since c. 2014.

With creative interests that lie in the notion of play, tactility, accessibility, lateral thinking and upcycling, her works aim to evoke a familiar feeling of nostalgia; compositions that toy with reality while exploring the possibilities in the grey areas of knowledge and what we define as truth in our daily lives.

A scavenger of sorts, her image sources include discarded books and artworks that have been damaged and abandoned. By isolating and combining these images in new ways and with other materials, her works tell stories of human behaviour and habits – observations of our knack for creation and destruction, our ties to tradition and desire for endless progress, the search for order in chaos, and other conundrums.

Her collage work has been shown locally and internationally, at cafes, galleries, markets and festivals.
As a mom to three adventurous creatives, she steals the quiet moments to make playful (and often tiny) collages that are shared primarily on Instagram @sydneyroseart and as part of @thecollageclub.