He has received a Wales Art International grant for SWITCHed, an exchange program between Arcade Cardiff and Galerie RDV, Nantes. Rouse has been a finalist with Lumen Prize for Digital Art, exhibited at the inaugural Westmorland Landscape Prize and selected for the 2020 BEEP Painting Prize. Rouse has painted game landscapes, developed interactive games, and experimented with generative spaces. In Rouse’s work, digital and traditional arts converge, creating unexpected results. 1985) is an Irish artist living and working in Cardiff, Wales. The outcome is a document about the past that speaks about the contingent moment. Kossoff Flees Ukraine reconstructs that miraculous escape through the forests and mountains of Europe, while updating the narrative to another tragedy, the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

As the title suggests, this work is about Leon Kossoff (1926-2019), one of the most influential British painters of the XIX century, who was also the son of two Ukrainian refugees fleeing persecution during the 1903-1906 pogrom. It is simultaneously an art history lesson and a meditation on current events delivered via Unity 3D. Jason Rouse’s new artwork is a triumph of remediation as it incorporates, repurposes, and transforms a variety of media, genres, and aesthetics.

Machinima, landscape painting, first-person shooters, walking simulators, and photogrammetry. Digital video/machinima (2160 x 1440), color, sound, 31’ 12”, 2022, Northern Ireland

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