Rufina Natusch

About

Rufina Natusch is a textile artist, graduating from the RCA MA Textiles programme in 2024.

Themes to her work come from a personal perspective where she explores the concept of liminal space and tangible impermanence in terms of the human condition and drawing inspiration from the built environment and architectural forms, of the space created by  architecture and the architecture itself, she looks at both and the physicality of her art, with one as a means of discussing the other.

Rufina’s art is often large scale as she wishes to challenge the viewer, to engage the senses and provoke conversation. She often feels that as a piece gets larger, there are conflicts between her and her art and who or what has the dominant force in steering the work forward. This fascinates her and is instrumental to the development of the work.

She works across a variety of media, including stitch and print and her latest work, Somewhere In Between, is a large-scale knitted sculpture in a bold palette of pinks and blues. Colour is central to Rufina’s visual language as she believes that colours, in textiles, have a quality of their own not, not seen in other media. She wants to viewer to experience the tactility of colour. Rufina works with repurposed fabric, yarns and metals amongst other mixed media, and her latest piece is made to be readily reassembled into new works, forms and colour combinations.

Rufina’s work at the RCA was supported by the Osborne & Little Bursary and the Coats Foundation Trust Award.