“Rooney creates pictorial spaces in which stillness, energy and appearance enter into resonance.”

 

 

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Artist Statement

 

Rooney’s painting unfolds at the threshold between stillness and condensation. Her works emerge through open processes in which tensions and inner movements arise within seemingly quiet pictorial spaces.

Her paintings are not purely abstract. They allow for appearances — suggestions of forms, energetic centers or living structures that surface within the pictorial field and disappear again. In this way the images remain deliberately open and multilayered.

For the viewer, these works become spaces of resonance. The longer one lives with them, the more perception shifts: new relationships, rhythms and intensities begin to reveal themselves. The paintings do not exhaust themselves in a single reading but unfold their presence over time.

Rooney’s painting oscillates between organic structure and metaphysical openness. She creates pictorial spaces that appear both calm and pulsating — places where energy condenses and dissolves again.

 

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Biography

 

Alongside her artistic practice, Rooney worked for many years as an entrepreneur and received several design awards, including DESIGN PLUS (German Design Council) and a nomination for the German Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany. This background continues to inform her conscious approach to space, composition and tension.

Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the HongArt Museum Chongqing (China, 2025–2026) and in a solo exhibition at Galerie Tibaldi – arte contemporanea, Rome (2023).

Rooney lives and works in Germany and Italy.