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Rozalie Sherwood worked in the fashion industry as a practitioner and then teacher, before studying in the textiles workshop at the Australian National University School of Art & Design.
She has now refined her use of textiles and exploits her familiarity with cloth, fibres and the tools of the textile trade in innovative ways to reflect her experiences and convey her ideas.
Based in Canberra, her work has revolved around inks and acrylics on linen fabric, which she enjoys because the materials refuse to be tightly controlled.
After drawing with the ink and/or acrylics, she often uses a sewing machine needle as if it were a pen or pencil - with a technique that allows movement in any direction - to create variations in tone and depth. The stitching holds, contains and supports the story being told.
“My ideal days start with drawing and end with handstitching, which I view as drawing in thread. In my work, I try to capture the emotion generated by a story or an experience. I think of each work as a container for a story…. I prefer intuitive line-making to precision, responding to colour and line as work progresses, and I embrace and highlight the accidental. I see this as a challenge to overcome my perfectionism, and an antidote to the precision I needed in the fashion industry,” she says.
Rozalie has exhibited regularly in recent years, in several Australian states and overseas. Highlights have been inclusion in the Surface and Depth exhibition as part of 2021 Rome Art Week in Italy, and winning First Prize in the 2021 Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Art Prize.
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“The exuberance of spring.”
Rozalie Sherwood, 2025.
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