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THE FILM

Rose & Roy is an evocative documentary about British painters Rose Wylie and Roy Oxlade. This intimate portrait is a meditation on love and what it means to be an artist, a woman, how we fit into society or create new worlds.

The film offers a window into Rose and Roy’s daily life in their cottage in Kent, England as they prepare for a major exhibit of Rose’s work at the Tate Britain Museum. This belated recognition of her work is a commentary on the mostly male dominated art world as Rose walks a not often treaded path - as a woman and an octogenarian. As Rose rises to notoriety. it leads to a shift in her partnership with Roy, where she has been mother, wife, artist. As they reflect on their past and present as a couple and as painters, Rose & Roy speaks to a lifetime commitment to each other and to their artistic careers.

Cast & Credits

FEATURING

ROSE WYLIE

ROY OXLADE

HENRIETTA OXLADE

LUKE JOHN OXLADE

DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER, CINEMATOGRAPHER, DP

ADOLFO DORING

PRODUCER, EDITOR

CLAUDIA DORING BAEZ

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

ALEJANDRO BAEZ-SACASA

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS

MARIANA CORONIL & MATT NASSER

Adolfo Doring

DIRECTOR / CO-PRODUCER / CINEMATOGRAPHER / DP

An award winning filmmaker, photographer and creator of music videos. Born in Mexico City, Doring moved to New York City in 1980. He directed, shot, edited music videos for Sting, Santana, Bon Jovi, The Dixie Chicks, Diana Krall and Savage Garden among many others. Doring received an MTV Music Video Award for ‘Hold My Hand’ by Hootie and The Blowfish in 1995. 

After the critical success of Doring’s dramatic feature film METRO (2006), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, he continued to to make feature length narrative and documentary films. Films include Thinly Veiled (2009) The Price of Dreams and documentaries including The Trial of the St. Patrick’s Four (2005), Got Stem Cells? (2007) and Blind Spot.  

Technical Details

PICTURE FORMAT • Color

RUNNING TIME • 1:21

ASPECT RATIO • 1:78

Feature-length documentary by Adolfo Doring about Rose Wylie and her husband, Roy Oxlade, who met at art school in London in 1957. Filmed primarily in the couple’s rural English cottage where Wylie still has her home and studio, Rose & Roy explores their lives and work in 2014, the year Wylie was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize—once called "the Oscar of the British painting world." The documentary includes interviews with Wylie, Oxlade, and two of their children, and mentions exhibitions at Tate Britain (2013) and the then upcoming show at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, England (2015). "She can turn knowledge and acute observation somehow into work which accepts those apparent facts, and yet then switches, through metaphor, into a new thing," Oxlade says of his wife’s paintings in the film."

-David Zwirner Gallery