Rita Rogers is an artist whose practice engages with the politics of image-making: using photography as a tool to evidence, and a means for counter-surveillance. She interrogates the sub-visable architecture of military power and nation-state governance across the UK.
Her practice is driven by an understanding that critical analysis of everyday and local environments can expose the structures of power that impact peace and nationhood. By documenting and archiving these spaces, she shows that space is not neutral, that distant forms of power are often rehearsed in ordinary environments, and that the act of seeing can disrupt the mechanisms of statehood.
Group Exhibitions
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, 2026
Where the Ferns Grow, 2026
Freeze, 2025
Mortice, 2025
To The Moon and Back, 2025
Subversive Pleasures, Mapping the Problematic, 2024
Glue Gun II, 2024
Glue Gun, 2023
Awards
Newbery Medal, Glasgow School of Art 2026
Education
Glasgow School of Art; Fine Art Photography
School of the Art Institute Chicago; Exchange Semester
ritrogers03@gmail.com