Born in 1934, Rose Wylie studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, and the Royal College of Art. Wylie’s work centers on painting and drawing, and her first retrospective exhibition was held at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, in 2012, followed by her BP Spotlight exhibition at Tate Britain in 2013. She has received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2011), the John Moores Painting Prize (2014) and the Charles Wollaston Award (2015).