Sally Rose
Fragment

Media: handmade paper, wax, ink
Size: 7" x 9" x 2"
$400

Artist Statement:
The questions that fuel my art practice are process-oriented experiments with materials and sculptural form. Making paper by hand allows a way to work directly with plants and to satisfy a penchant for observing and collecting organic material and objects. Oftentimes it is the residue, or the “left-over” that provides a skeletal structure. As in this case with grape stems, the “slow art” approach to looking carefully at the intricacies provides sensory enrichment.

Biography

Sally Rose combines an obsession with plants and gardening with plants and making handmade paper. Mt. Pleasant has been home for the past 30 years while she served as head of Fibers in the CMU Department of Art and Design.

She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally, receiving an honorable mention in the 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea. Her work was included in the Lark Books 500 series --500 Paper Objects: New Dimensions in Paper Art, and is represented in the collections of the R.C. Williams Papermaking Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Budapest Museum of Fine Art in Hungary.