Rosemary Eagle is an artist living and working from a home-based studio in Ararat. Rosemary’s studio is part of what used to be stables for the local baker’s horses in 1926, a rambling old building clad in corrugated iron. Her husband, potter John Eagle, also works out of the same building.

A year after moving to Ararat 17 years ago, Rosemary developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and as result can no longer walk. Coming to terms with her changed life took time but she modified her studio, keeping her etching press and focussed her time and energy on her art practice. Her studio became her sanctuary, and her art practice became a lifeline, a way to survive.

Rosemary’s work follows two very different themes; calm landscapes that reflect her longing for a safe, pain-free place, and the more expressionistic work in print and paint are often about the lived pain experience.

The Grampians (Gariwerd*), Mount Langi Ghiran**, Green Hill Lake and One Tree Hill are locations close to home that Rosemary often visits; to her they are places where time slows, and she feels in touch with nature and the senses. Rosemary intends to capture feelings evoked and moments in time in her art.

*The Grampians National Park is part of the Gariwerd Aboriginal cultural landscape.
**Langi Ghiran (Lar-ne-jeering (Langi Ghiran) is from the Djab Wurrung language meaning ‘home of the black cockatoo’)