ROSSLYND PIGGOTT



Influenced by natural forms, Japanese design and surrealistic figuration, Rosslynd Piggott’s practice is marked by an attention to aesthetics and the material properties of things. She works with a wide-range of media and techniques, including glass-blowing, fabric, painting, installation, drawing and photography, and maintains a fascination for the beautiful and poetic—air, glass, mirrors, fabric and flowers are all ongoing elements that permeate her visual vocabulary. Indeed, within Piggott’s work there exists an enduring desire to look beyond the mundane to the elusive and unknowable.



Rosslynd Piggott is a highly acclaimed Australian artist with an exhibiting history of more than 30 years. Major shows include: Shelter 2006-2010, as part of The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010; Extract: in 3 parts, Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2008; Trace, as part of the 1999 Liverpool Biennial; and Suspended Breath, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998. She has also presented regular exhibitions with Sutton Gallery since 1994.



Recent group exhibitions include: Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2013; Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2012; paint/h/ing, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2010; and Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2009.