Artists

Born Melbourne, Victoria, 1958: Currently lives & works Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Rosslynd Piggott's work has received wide acclaim, having been represented in over 35 important solo exhibitions, and numerous prestigious curated exhibitions and events, both nationally and internationally. With such a strong exhibition history, beginning in 1981, the artist has maintained a very prolific practice, focusing on 3-dimensional works, painting and drawing. Piggott's style is slow and deliberate, often using natural forms and systems as a starting point for painterly mediations. Her practice is influenced by Japanese culture, her delicate and airy images have been said to offer the merest wisp of the ungraspable.

Individual exhibitions have included regular showings with Sutton Gallery, since 1994, solo exhibitions at Gallery 360, Tokyo, A.R.T. (Art Residence Tokyo), Tokyo, international shows in Antwerp, Belgium, Saitama, Japan and the installation, Trace, as part of the 1999 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK. In 1998, Rosslynd Piggott's 3- Dimensional works were presented in an extensive and highly regarded survey exhibition, curated by Jason Smith, at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Piggott's work has been invited into numerous group exhibitions and prizes, including: paint/h/ing, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, 2010; Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2009; Cross Current: Focus on contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,2007; Australian Watercolours, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005; The Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, Ian Potter Centre: NGV:A, Melbourne, 2003; Our Place: Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy, 2001; National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2001; Fragments-Relation, Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1998; and Inner Space: Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993.

In 2005 Piggott was commissioned to produce 3-dimensional displays incorporating archaeological artifacts for Melbourne Architect John Wardle. Piggott presented a major work titled Shelter, 2006-2010 at the 17th Biennale of Sydney. The work spread over three rooms: Mirror Void, 2009-2010; Star and tide, 2007-2008; and Memory garden/Yamazakura, 2006-2010. In this work Piggott invited the viewer to look beyond the mundane to the elusive and the unknowable.

Piggott has been recipient of numerous awards and grants, which have taken her to studios in Italy and Paris, and enabled her work to travel to exhibitions abroad, such as Belgium and Japan. She is considered as one of Australia's most highly revered and critically acclaimed contemporary artists.

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