Melanie Rose
dAi (digital-Art-index)
research project / New Forest edition

Frank Buchser (1828–1890), Charcoal Burners' Hut in the New Forest. The Cooper Gallery.

Frederick Golden Short, New Forest (1863–1936). Courtesy Southampton City Art Gallery.

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (1869–1958), Wind and Rain, New Forest Ponies. Courtesy Wisbech & Fenland Museum.

Wilhelm Kümpel (1822–1880), Mark Ash, near Lyndhurst, New Forest. Coutesy of Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries.

Herbert Arthur Bone (1853–1931), Emery Down, Lyndhurst. Courtesy Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.

William Gilpin, View of Beaulieu River, 1739-1791 (circa). Courtesy British Museum.

Frederick Golden Short (1863–1936), A New Forest Glade. Courtesy of Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.

Creswell Hartley Desmond, Ponies Crossing Boldre Bridge, c1920. Courtesy of St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery.

Theodore Hines (c.1860–1889),Near Lyndhurst, Hampshire. Courtesy Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

Wilfrid Ball, A Path in the New Forest, before 1917. Watercolour.

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (1869–1958), Timber-Hauling in the New Forest. Courtesy of Bushey Museum and Art Gallery

Frederick Golden Short (1863–1936), The New Forest from Cut Walk Hill, Emery Down.Courtesy National Trust, Calke Abbey.

Print, aquatint, New Forest Gypsies, New Forest, Hampshire, by Eric Hesketh Hubbard, early 20th century. Courtesy Hamphire Cultural Trust.

William Sidney Goodwin (1833–1916), Stormy Sunset, New Forest. Courtesy Southampton City Art Gallery.

Leigh Crowe, New Forest near Bolderwood, Hampshire, 1993–1996. Courtesy The Young Gallery.

Wilfrid Williams Ball, Passford Farm, Bucklands, Lymington, 1911. Courtesy private collection.

The dAi (digital-Art-index) is an “collection” of historic paintings held in regional galleries featuring different locations that frame one place, in this instance the New Forest National Park. Aesthetics aside, each of the paintings holds a wealth of information, from identifying plant types to rural living conditions, offering us an opportunity to look to the past, to be able to positively inform what might happen in the future. –– Dr Melanie Rose

The dAi (digital-Art-index) is the creation of artist Melanie Rose. It is a method of place based research, an artwork and a curatorial project taking the form of a spreadsheet. It is also intended to be a resource to put older works in conversation with contemporary concerns and/or current artist practices.

dAi (digital-Art-index) - New Forest was realised as part of Rose’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds Arts and Humanities Institute (LAHRI) supported with a BA Leverhulme research grant to investigate the relationships between UK regional art collections and National Parks.

In September 2024 dai was activated by the exhibiton Long View(s) which featured contemporary artist works paired with historical artworks in the dai collection as part of The Long View conference.

View and more info on Long View(s)

Dr Melanie Rose is a painter exploring place. Rose is a British Academy research scholar having been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds (LAHRI) 2022-2024. Prior education includes an MA from Central Saint Martins, she is a subject tutor at West Dean College of Arts, Design, Craft and Conservation and is a member of Land2 and PaC and has work in both private and public collections

Melanie Rose dAi (digital-Art-index)research project / New Forest edition

Melanie Rose
dAi (digital-Art-index)
research project / New Forest edition