Rosie MacCurrach is an artist and textile designer, living in Hampshire. She studied at Chelsea College of Art, specialising in printed textiles. Rosie has since working as a: Print designer, textile artist and dyer of fashion and in illustration, theatre, interiors and film. She was Designer, Head of Studio and Director of Fermoie until 2021 and more recently as Senior Textile artist for film. She spent a postgraduate year at the Royal Drawing School and a year as Artist in Residence at Great Dixter House and Garden. She has been a visiting lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and taught at The National Theatre, The Royal Drawing School, Great Dixter House and Garden and currently teaches landscape drawing as a way exploring a spirit of place at 'We are Wild' in Yorkshire and West Dean College alongside her own practise and textile design consultancy.
Exploring the landscape, tracing the shapes and rhythms with your eye, and translating
it into marks on paper is an experiential and primal way of engaging with a place.
Sitting on the ground, listening and responding to weather, light, smells and
atmosphere and the luminosity and spirit that is always pulsing through our landscape.
I love to combine larger spaces with tiny detail that make up a tapestry of marks that
extend beyond the boundaries of a photograph, drawing you closer into the image
and world I’m trying to capture.
I find myself looking for shapes that seem to snap together like a stained-glass window
and the enfolding spaces between them. My compositions echo the way apples fall
off a tree in a reflective circle, ripples, plough lines or the way earth works radiate
outward. My drawing is an action of reverence and connection and a celebration of
pattern and spirit of place.
