Exhibitions & Events:
2023 - Latest collection of work titled On God is displayed at Kulturhuset as part of the Altar Space takeover in collaboration with Southnord in Stockholm
2023 - How Do You Spell Home?: A duo exhibition with artist Anna Shen at Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2022 - Some Of Us Aren't Really From Here: A sold out debut solo show of paintings in Stockholm, Sweden
2022 - Head of Communications at Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 - Freelance journalist with writing published in the Gay Times, the Guardian and gal-dem to name a few.
2020 - Press Officer for the Free Black Univeristy, London, UK
2019 - Work experience at the Guardian News & Magazine Desk
2019 - Editorial and Commerical Intern at gal-dem, London, UK
2018 - signed to BAME Models and Gingersnap Models, London, UK

On God: A collection of work displayed at Altarspace x Southnords pop up shop
A duo exhibition at Kulturhuset Lava with artist Anna ShenAs part of Southnords exhibition The Prysm Is A Threshold, wellness collective Altar Space curated a popup shop at Kulturhuset. Rosel's collection of work On God was selected along with other Afroswedish artists and is exhibited at the iconic institution in Stockholm.Rosel's reflections on the works:
“On God follows four acrylic portraits — each picturing different spirits channelled during my time in Sydney, Australia. I moved there with no job, no permanent place to live and no plan but my intuition guiding me. I just had a strong sense that I needed to make this move. Some call this hearing the voice of God, a gut feeling or ancestral guidance. Either way, it was that same step into the unknown that led me to create each of these pieces on the other side of the world.Before laying each colour, I would close my eyes and feel into who- or whatever wished to be manifested. I had to listen to each instruction, even when they didn’t make sense to me. What you see in this collection of work is the result of that process, of what happens when we take seemingly nonsensical leaps of faith into the unknown.These works are a meditation on the trust fall many of us have to make at some point in our life. These are moments where we are simply asked to accept that we don’t have the answers and rest in the faith that all will be well. The stakes of this belief vary depending on identity markers like race, gender and sexuality. Of course, in life, we rarely get to experience the finished work of our time on earth. In art, perhaps, we witness a microcosm of what our lives may yield.”

How Do You Spell Home?
A duo exhibition at Kulturhuset Lava with artist Anna ShenAbout the show:
"We are born places we don’t always feel we belong. In becoming who we are, we are asked to define what it means to become comfortable in our skin, to plant roots in places we weren’t supposed to be. As part of Lavas 2023 Pride celebration, artists Anna Shen and Rosel Jackson Stern have created work that asks questions about where and when we make a home. What does it mean to cultivate a sense of belonging in place you have or have not chosen?Through themes of belonging and creating home across borders, Annas artwork discusses home as a choice made for them through the transnational adoption. They are reminded of this fact through the loss of heritage highlighted by the jarring reality of a new environment. “My judicial name was changed when I came here which means people can’t put my face and my name together. It’s a daily reminder for me that this is not my actual home”, Anna Shen says. They feel like when you’re visibly queer, there’s certain requirements for belonging in mainstream society: “If I’m not valuable to society in any way or fail to live up to the white western stereotypes, I’m seen as less than”.Along opposite but similar thematic lines, Rosel made their work during the year they spent abroad, a move they made out of choice. There they found a physical home in the community that loved them and in the creative practice that gave rise to the four acrylic paintings in this exhibition. “I felt a sense of diss-ease in my entire life growing up in Stockholm. It’s a feeling I know a lot of Afro-Swedes share,” they say, “I now feel a sense of home in my practice. My home is in my art. It is why I am here.”

Some Of Us Aren't Really From Here (2022)
A sold out debut solo show at Konsthall C in Stockholm, SwedenAbout the show:
"When lineages suffer trauma and displacement, the knowledge of those who came before us can be fractured. We forget where we came from. We forget that we have a future. Slowly and with enough tenderness, we piece together the whispers, the spaces between breaths and unanswered questions. We find a place for them outside our bodies.In Some Of Us Aren’t Really From Here, we meet a series of beings portrayed in paintings and they tell us their stories. Each work was created through the joy of process, what happens when we breathe and embrace our creative practice as beings making themselves known to us. Taking its cues from Afrofuturism and Black sci-fi, this show asks what happens when we tap into the divinity within us and let it manifest.Rosel Jackson Stern is a Swedish artist, a writer and a birther of worlds. As a mixed-race black nonbinary person, their art work traverses stories about what happens when we embrace the most scorned parts of ourselves. “I owe this work to the divinity of Black women and femmes. May we all find peace in this lifetime. This is for us.”

Worlds Within Us: Works from 2020This work was channeled during the start of Rosels journey to explore their ancestral lineage. In a series of portraits made during lockdown, this work explores Black spirituality and heritage during the summer of 2020 and the murder of George Floyd.

Published in gal-dem (2021)_Commisioned by Niellah Arboine and illustration by Tessie Orange-Turner _This piece was published as part of an ongoing relationship with gal-dem, an award-winning media company committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour from marginalised genders. Speaking to three people from their community, Rosel unpacked the complexities of prayer and how allows Black queer people to claim the world they wish to live in.

Published in gal-dem (2022)_Commisioned by Niellah Arboine _In an interview with Leona Nichole Black, Rosel unpacks how love is simply what we devote attention to. This piece was published as part of an ongoing relationship with gal-dem, an award-winning media company committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour from marginalised genders.

Bio and track list comissioned by Ziggy RamoIn preparation for Ziggy's upcoming album release, Rosel captured the essence of his mission and artistry,An exerpt: _"Rapper and changemaker Ziggy Ramo knows his worth. An award-winning musician and producer of Wik and Solomon Islander heritage, Ziggy’s artistry challenges the settler colonialism and institutional racism upon which Australia was built. Through speaking engagements, music or directorial projects, his creativity channels perspectives that are often neglected or suppressed. He offers unique and salient commentary on race, masculinity and mental health". __Photography: Vanessa Swederus
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Modelling work with photographer Egle Vasi (2019)In collaboration with HMUA Rose Forrest.

Cover of IM magazine with editorital feature Electric Dreams (2019) shot by Emma Barrow_A series of experimental shots exploring the old and new. _