Roseann Dendy is a working class artist from Cumbernauld, Glasgow. They make autofiction works, pulling from their experiences of transness and sense of socio politics to take form through movement, film, text, and sculpture. They care about exhibiting things that blur the lines between raw actuality and fatuous commercialism, seeing how bodies can be live as a site for honesty and entirety, as well as a product to be labeled and consumed.

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Their practice holds space for intensity. Exploring fullness in emotional states and viscerallity and catharsis within movement. They want to make work that feels representative of parts of the human condition that aren't so easily talked about. Embracing darkness, play and confrontation, their work has been described to have a 'visceral and pulsating energy’, and be ‘a journey of fevered dance’.

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Roseann is a co-founder of Tough Boys, a queer led dance theatre collective from Scotland. Alongside collaborator Sula Castle, they make contemporary works for black box spaces, clubs, galleries and mixed media. They have presented work at a diverse range of venues across the UK including Sadler's Wells, The Place Theatre, Dalston SuperStore, Ugly Duck, Jacksons Lane and Bermondsey Project Space.

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​Roseann & Sula are Young Associate Artists at Sadlers' Wells 2023/25. They are making work for the digital stage, Lilian Baylis Studio and Sadler's Wells main house. They are resident artists at Ugly Duck, and were recipients of the Trinity Laban Innovation Award 2021. They have worked with multiple dance institutions including Trinity Laban, The Place, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Dance East.​​​