Fiona Rose Rodriguez-Roberts studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and it was there, halfway through her studies, that she put down her paintbrush and began sculpting, weaving and assembling.  She says: “I consider myself a textile sculptor - not a painter. I have often picked up a paintbrush and tried to paint but it only left me barely containing myself from throwing the work out of the window or onto the fire.  In the past two years ideas have been forming and I have struggled with how they should be created - wanting to make them with yarn or branches - completely shutting out the voice that began to whisper: paint.”  Of the works in this Biennial she says: “These two are from a series of self portraits.  Four more are in various stages of completion - with seven more sketches in my book and God only knows how many more in my subconscious.  I sculpt because I enjoy the construction and the process, the figuring it out.”

	Artist's statement "I create art for my own sanity and calm."
	Recent highlights 2007 - Faculty Exhibition, The Elliot Gallery, Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation 2006 - Fibre Exhibition, The Elliot Gallery, Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation