When someone is walking towards me smiling, I have no understanding of whether they are happy, pleased to see me, or laughing at me”. - Rosie Barnes

I love objects that are shiny, glittery, colourful. Anything that has a strong sensory input. I consider them my friends.

The book (62 images and quotes) sold 1,200 copies and was ordered from every continent in the world

In 1998, when my first born was 18 months old I exhibited some new work – A Boy’s Eye View. I was exploring notions of scale, reality, emotion, perception and perspective to try to understand how a young child makes sense of the world they find themselves inhabiting. Another 18 months on, Stanley was diagnosed as autistic and those images I’d made suddenly became incredibly poignant. I had been making work about him and his life as an autistic person, without realising it. The concepts that I’d grappled with were very much part of his life.