R.R. Pascoe is a multi award winning Australian artist and designer. She is best known for her wearable artworks utilising salvaged and sustainable materials which she has been creating for over two decades. Her work has featured in exhibitions in the US, UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as throughout Australia and NZ, and is held in both private and public collections including the permanent historical collection of the National WOW (World of Wearable Art) Museum, NZ.

Primarily self-taught, cutting her teeth in the vibrant underground dance party scene of Sydney in the 1990s, she has been shaped by the ethos of DIY culture and the broader Outsider Art movement. With a background in Community Development Work she sees the role of the arts as integral to the development of healthy individuals and communities, and is a firm believer in a ground-up approach, all of which informs her passion for the arts as vehicle for powerful and lasting social change.

She is a five-time finalist and three-time prize winner of New Zealand’s prestigious World of WearableArt Awards. In 2021 Pascoe was the recipient of major project funding from Create NSW and the Regional Arts fund, to undertake a research and development project designed to address progressive disabling health conditions which made her traditional, very labour intensive, hands-on design and production methods increasingly unfeasible, by reskilling in digital design and fabrication techniques, including developing a range of kinetic and auxetic digitally knitted
3D textiles based on tessellated pleating structures and origami folds, to be used in the ongoing development of sculpt-able, wearable art garments and accessories.

In 2023 she was a selected participant in Accessible Arts’ Front & Centre leadership program for women with disability in the arts, and received the Joyce Spencer Textile Fellowship, to
present an exhibition of new work using data visualisation techniques, including translation of sound and other sensory and environmental data into graphical outputs, to be utilised as the
basis for generating patterns and forms.