Laresa Kosloff and Rosslynd Piggott in ‘nightshifts’ at Buxton Contemporary
Works by Laresa Kosloff and Rosslynd Piggott feature in the group exhibition nightshifts at Buxton Contemporary. Highlighting artists whose practice attends to solitude and isolation through manifold permutations, nightshifts gathers works which span a range of histories, narratives and media.
Presenting work from the Michael Buxton and the University of Melbourne Collections alongside recent commissions, the exhibition carefully ruminates the importance of solitude as a condition of divergence for contemporary artists who are working at a time of emphasised collaborative practice.
nightshifts Buxton Contemporary 26 May–29 October 2023
Review: ‘Rosslynd Piggott, Realm–peripheral scenes’ by Philip Brophy
25 Mar 2023
Read Philip Brophy’s insightful review in Memo.
“For art history adepts, being in the space might be akin to standing in front of, or within, the Light and Space paintings or walls of Mary Course, Helen Pashigan, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, and James Turrell. The connection makes sense, for decorative artisans and conceptual minimalists equally explored how the painted, primed, textured, or illuminated surface can on its own absorb the viewer into its field of interiority”.
Rosslynd Piggott is exhibiting in two exhibitions across the summer months at Queensland Gallery of Art and Gallery of Modern Art. Piggott features in ‘Air’ until 23 April and ‘Courage and Beauty – The James C. Sourris Collection’ until 25 June 2023.
‘Air’ showcases more than 30 significant Australian and international artists, reflecting the vitality of our shared atmosphere through the invisible, ethereal and vital element of air.
‘Courage and Beauty’ is dedicated to Queensland art collector and philanthropist James C. Sourris AM gifts of the past decade, with major works by contemporary Australian artists including Rosslynd Piggott and Gordon Bennett.
Take a trip to Heide Modern to see Rosslynd Piggott in the exhibition ‘wHole’, curated by Melissa Keys.
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‘wHole’ takes modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s fascination with masses, voids, piercings and hollows as a point of departure to explore the enduring interest that artists have in the phenomena of openings and absences. ‘wHole’ draws together a diverse range of transhistorical and transnational artworks alongside an exciting series of new commissions by leading contemporary Australian artists.
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‘wHole’
Heide Museum of Modern Art
14 Nov 2022 – 26 Feb 2023
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Image: Rosslynd Piggott, ‘self and breathing hole – 117 days in Japan no 1’, 1997-98, type-c photograph, 92 x 64cm.
‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’ by Anne Marsh
Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups including Catherine Bell, Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Sara Hughes, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Lindy Lee, Rosslynd Piggott, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Jane Trengove, with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique.
Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women’s art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the contemporary art landscape in Australia and internationally.
Rosslynd Piggott, Helga Groves and Brett Colquhoun finalists in Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
Rosslynd Piggott, Helga Groves and Brett Colquhoun have been named as finalists in the 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. An exhibition of finalists work will be on view at Geelong Gallery from Saturday 29 May to Sunday 22 August 2021.
7 Sutton Gallery artists featured in landmark National Gallery of Australia initiative ‘Know My Name’
Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Helen Johnson, Lindy Lee and Rosslynd Piggott are included in Know My Name: Australia Women Artists 1900 to Now. A gender equity initiative of the NGA, Know My Name features a program of exhibitions, events, commissions, creative collaborations, publications and partnerships that highlight the diversity and creativity of women artist throughout history and to the present day.
Rosslynd Piggott at National Gallery of Victoria
Rosslynd Piggott: I sense you but I cannot see you is the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date, charting a remarkable oeuvre that includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations. Coinciding with the NGV’s survey, Piggott will also present a new body of work at Sutton Gallery opening August 2019.
I sense you, but I cannot see you
National Gallery of Victoria
12 April – 18 August, 2019
