EDWARD ROLLITT

Edward Rollitt (b. 1998) is a British artist based between London and a converted agricultural barn in Hampshire. Working across sculpture, installation, film, video, and photography, his practice explores the charged atmosphere of interior space, using historically-inspired fictional characters as conduits for examining the role of objects in constructing identity, memory, and social structures. He builds environments that function as portraits: figures rendered not through likeness but through the things that surrounded them, each room absorbing and giving back the emotional residue of an imagined life. For Rollitt, the camera is not a recording device but a means of translation, each photograph tasked with distilling a three-dimensional constructed world into a single image that carries its full emotional weight.

Rollitt holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (2023). His second solo exhibition, Where We Once Played (Bomb Factory Foundation, Marylebone, 2025), was named one of the top five exhibitions in London that summer by critic Tabish Khan, and his work subsequently appeared in the group exhibition Tomorrow alongside Mark Wallinger and Ben Okri. His debut solo exhibition, To Dwell In Dust, took place at New Art Projects, London, in 2024. That same year, his large-scale sculpture of the same name was selected for Kunstkammer at Lismore Castle Arts, curated by Robert O'Byrne, alongside work by Sarah Lucas, Nicole Wermers, and Conrad Shawcross RA; following the exhibition's close, the work entered the Lismore Castle Arts permanent collection. He has been longlisted for the National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Prize and the Aesthetica Art Prize (2024), the latter exhibited at York Art Gallery, and was a finalist for the UK New Artist of the Year Award at the Saatchi Gallery (2023); his work was shortlisted for the Nikon Emerging Photographer Award in 2026. In 2024 he served as Art Director for the music video This Is Who I Am for Celeste, which won a UKMVA Award. His work has been published in World of Interiors, The Sunday Times, The Week, and Nowness.