Rose Covert
Rose Covert uses natural materials to weave sculptural forms. Using reimagined basketry techniques, Rose creates woven landscapes that twist and travel around themselves. Her work is evocative of the natural world they are created from. They hold an element of dance and movement in their shapes and pull the viewer in with their dynamic tensions. Rose’s process begins with planting, and harvesting the willows or red osier her sculptures are made from and ends in exploration and design as she weaves the forms.
Rose Covert is an Oregon based fiber artist who uses natural materials to weave sculptural forms. She has been a member and board member of the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild since 2010 and uses techniques she learned through her involvement with them to develop the style of weaving she now works in. Rose hand harvests and processes all of her materials, which creates a deep connection to the fibers she uses in her work.
Covert works with themes of collaboration, interdependency and belonging. Her works are created out of the living world and seek to create a connection to the wilds. They are a conversation with nature and an invitation to participate in that conversation. Rose is weaving a language of landscape and pattern. She creates works that evoke the rhythms and cycles of life asking us to remember that we are a part of life on this planet, that we belong and are beholden to it, that we are interconnected and intertwined and must therefore live as if our survival and thriving depends on each other, because it does.
Rose Covert is an Oregon based fiber artist who uses natural materials to weave sculptural forms. She has been a member and board member of the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild since 2010 and uses techniques she learned through her involvement with them to develop the style of weaving she now works in. Rose hand harvests and processes all of her materials, which creates a deep connection to the fibers she uses in her work.
Covert works with themes of collaboration, interdependency and belonging. Her works are created out of the living world and seek to create a connection to the wilds. They are a conversation with nature and an invitation to participate in that conversation. Rose is weaving a language of landscape and pattern. She creates works that evoke the rhythms and cycles of life asking us to remember that we are a part of life on this planet, that we belong and are beholden to it, that we are interconnected and intertwined and must therefore live as if our survival and thriving depends on each other, because it does.
