Rosa is a textile artist based in Frome, UK. She creates handwoven tapestries and textile pieces. Her practise combines themes around gender, the body and politics. Rosa studied printmaking and is a self-taught weaver, she uses tapestry weaving as a tool to engage in slow craft. She is forever inspired by her late mother's dedication to heritage and crafts.

Her most recent collection of woven pots is an exploration into the 'empty cup' - loss, despair and possibility - working with weaving techniques to build multidimensional tapestries that present an interplay between the capacity to contain and a sense of fragility.‍

From the artist...
Textiles is not my craft to own, these labours of love these textiles, are an ode to those artisans, mothers, elders and ancient people. Those who cared for the earth in such a way that we as a species were able to create clothing to keep us warm, shelter to keep us dry and textiles so entrenched with meaning and purpose that we laid them alongside our dead ceremoniously. I owe everything that I have learned to the countless Indigenous groups and Nations that have utilised cloth for millennia. I am a student of this Ancient Craft. 5% of all profits go towards charities that support Indigenous groups.
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