Roz Fletcher
Invitational Artist in Residence - March
Roz Fletcher is an interdisciplinary sculptor whose affinity-based practice investigates clay as a haptic, psychological, and relational material. Working across sculpture, installation, and participatory formats, her work is rooted in embodied experience and informed by trauma-aware and somatic frameworks. Fletcher’s sculptural language often combines ceramic forms with lightweight structural materials, creating environments that invite touch, proximity, and slowed engagement. During the residency at RuptureXibit new work will evolve through performative processes using raw clay.
Roz recently graduated from the fine art MFA at West Dean College in 2025. She is continuing her research through studying on a certificate for Sensorimotor Therapy. Since graduating she has setup her sculpture studio at Fusion Arts in Kingston-upon-Thames, (her ceramic home-studio is in Twickenham). Before her MFA, Roz was teaching Further and Adult education at Hammersmith College and Windsor Forest College Group. Roz now facilitates haptic clay workshops for adoptees and adoptive parents through the peer-support group We Are Family (Adoption). These workshops prioritise tactile making as a means of fostering safety, co-regulation, and shared experience beyond language.
This residency is made possible through a grant from the charity 'The Mercers' Company, as trustee of the Mercers’ Charitable Foundation.
Workshops & Talks
The artist will be integrating haptic clay encounters and relational psychodynamic structures to explore themes of mortality, mourning and loss. She will be borrowing techniques used in therapeutic practice to develop performative sculptural works and to define hybrid techniques.
She will be developing instructional prompts and scripts for performances to be used during two solo performances. She will also be developing performance that includes audience participation.
The artist will be investigating casting and colour to capture the invisible psychodynamic energy generated during the making process.
The residency will be documented via multiple video cameras and stills photography.
There will be workshops programmed during the residency, an artist’s talk and an open studio event on the last Saturday in March.
Dates and details for workshop and talks:
Saturday 14th March
Clay and Calm - Guided Haptic Meditation for adults.
Session 1: 10-11am
Session 2: 1pm-2pm
Session 3: 2-3pm
Clay and Calm – Guided Haptic Meditation for adults.
Two places available per session. Reserve your space here
Roz has developed a meditative, haptic (touch based) workshop for adults… Clay and Calm. No need to think about what to make, the workshop takes the form of a guided meditation. This is low effort, high benefit, self-care.
Each participant is given a wooden tray filled with soft clay. With closed eyes, the touch sensation is magnified, and a new haptic world opens.
Through this process participants get in touch with sensory memories, such as being on holiday at the beach. Exploring texture shifts from resistant to mailable, sensual and relaxing, the experience is like a mud bath of silky cold cream - a sensory spa of safe, sensory engagement.
The Clay-field will be videoed during each session.
Sunday 15th to Monday 16th 11am- 11am. (No booking required)
‘Mourning Mum’ 24-hour durational performance.
Performance visible through the studio window after 5pm.
Tuesday 17th 11-1pm
Peek at Progress! 11-1pm (No booking required)
Saturday 28th 11am-6pm
Open Studio Reserve your place
6-6:30 Artists talk on work and the residency
6:30-8pm End of residency get together with drinks and snacks