Rose Rigley traces how material encounters become enduring relationships through artistic practice.Rose Rigley is an artist/researcher working across installation, sculpture, participation and writing.
Her practice begins with encounters that resist easy explanation: a bundle of wire, a fallen branch, a sheet of tissue paper, a passing event that continues to demand attention. Through processes of collecting, repairing, reconfiguring and returning, she considers how relationships with materials develop over time and how these relationships shape ways of making, knowing and being in the world. "My work is durational and attentive: rather than moving quickly toward resolution, I work by staying with materials, places and experiences as they continue to transform through time."
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Rose Rigley: "Breath" 2025
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Accompaniment is a practice-led research framework developed through Rose Rigley's Master of Fine Art at the National Art School. The framework identifies five conditions of artistic practice: Atmosphere, Interruption, Entanglement, Encounter and Continuance. Together, these conditions describe how material relationships emerge, evolve and persist through sustained creative engagement.
Rose Rigley: "UN / concealed coercion", installation view Cairns Art Gallery, 2024