Rosslynd Piggott and Mia Boe at the Potter Museum of Art
Works by Rosslynd Piggott and Mia Boe will be on show at the Potter Museum of Art on the occasion of the group exhibition A velvet ant, a flower and a bird, guest curated by Chus Martínez (Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, Switzerland).
Included in the exhibition A velvet ant, a flower and a bird, Rosslynd Piggott’s work will speak to the exhibition’s wider aims of highlighting the commingled, interrelated ecologies of contemporary and historic art, whereby intelligence is envisioned as a living, evolving matter.
Alongside the main exhibition, the Potter Museum of Art’s Project Gallery is programming an additional presentation that spotlights recent acquisitions entered into the university’s art collection. Entitled The shape of us, the exhibition will include Mia Boe’s work Maniac Scholar (2024), first shown at Boe’s exhibition Imagined realistic minds at Sutton Gallery in March 2024.
A velvet ant, a flower and a bird 19 February – 6 June 2026 Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC
Rosslynd Piggott will be in conversation with curators Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon at Gertrude Contemporary on Sunday 23 March alongside fellow artists Jon Campbell, Sandra Bridie and former Gertrude director Rose Lang.
Marking the conclusion of the group exhibition A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985-1995, the artists and curators will discuss the exhibition’s formation and the lasting impact of Gertrude Contemporary’s studio and exhibition programme over the past four decades.
Please note this artist talk is free and does not require booking.
In Conversation: Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon with Sandra Bridie, Jon Campbell, Rose Lang and Rosslynd Piggott Sunday 23 March 2025, 3:00pm Gertrude Contemporary, Preston South, VIC
Rosslynd Piggott and Doug Hall at Sarah Scout Presents
We are excited to announce Rosslynd Piggott and Doug Hall’s two-person exhibition nothing — a drift taking place at Sarah Scout Presents gallery in Melbourne from 28 March – 10 May 2025.
Evolved from conversations in and around their studios, the exhibition takes its starting point in the artists shared interests and entanglements with Japanese culture. nothing — a drift comprises a suite of collage paintings by Hall and Piggott’s expansive painting Long flower light and cumulonimbus edge (2022).
Gesturing toward the fleeting and impermanent, the exhibition represents a meeting point of two deeply personal and contemplative practices. Hall and Piggott have known each other for more than 30 years and their deep interest in Japanese art and culture remains inseparable in their friendship.
The opening celebration will take place at Sarah Scout Presents on Saturday 29th March from 3–5pm.
nothing – a drift: Doug Hall & Rosslynd Piggott 28 March – 10 May 2025 Sarah Scout Presents 47 Easy Street, Collingwood, VIC
Brett Colquhoun, Raafat Ishak, Anne-Marie May and Rosslynd Piggott at Gertrude Contemporary
Seminal works by Brett Colquhoun, Raafat Ishak, Anne-Marie May and Rosslynd Piggott are now on show at Gertrude Contemporary as a part their landmark anniversary exhibition, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995. Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, the group exhibition takes a speculative look at the span of more than thirty artists’ works shown during Gertrude’s formative years, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of this era.
Including artworks rarely seen in almost 40 years, the ‘fictional retrospective’ explores how works from this era have retained a timeliness and contemporary relevance through their diverse explorations of cultural and artistic identities; painting both figurative and abstract; the staged and cinematic.
A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995 Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne 8 February – 23 March 2025
Dr Rosslynd Pigott Digital Story: The James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews
Rosslynd Piggott’s interview with Jane Devery, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, is now online as a part of The James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews published through the State Library of Queensland.
Taking place in her Melbourne studio in 2023, the interview delves into Piggott’s childhood and family, her art school days and early career in the 1980s in St. Kilda, coursing through her time in Paris, Venice and Japan, and culminating in a rich discussion of the experiential drives and manifold references behind her most recent paintings.
Rosslynd Piggott in ‘Arriving Slowly’ at the Ipswich Art Gallery
Including works by Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko and Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Canberra, the exhibition Arriving Slowly at the Ipswich Art Gallery gathers artists who invoke and play on notions of the sublime in abstraction.
Arriving Slowly Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, QLD 17 November 2024 – 16 February 2025
Read: Rosslynd Piggott and Rudi Williams in Memo Review
“I see this exhibition only through Williams’s transmogrifying documentation. Warm tungsten light illuminates one room, warped in the reflection of Piggott’s mirror work and filled with the luxuriously varied textures of Johnston’s collection. There is an angled chair with an embroidered chartreuse velvet cushion, wicker weft, and glossily oiled wooden arms; a pinstriped yellow wallpaper, lines wavering; and an eighteenth-century society portrait of a young woman in a satiny blue-and-white gown fingering a small bunch of roses, her face obscured by a stretch of thin white fabric draped over the top of the picture frame like a veil. In these photographs, the accoutrements of an aristocratic past are transported to a psychologically mysterious shadow realm.” – Cameron Hurst, 2024
Rosslynd Piggott and Rudi Williams’ two-person exhibition Mirror, mirror at Sutton Gallery has been reviewed in this week’s Memo Review.
John Meade, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Rosslynd Piggott in ‘Hair Pieces’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art
John Meade’s sculpture Self Portrait as Mary Magdalene (2003-2009) will be featured alongside Nusra Latif Qureshi’s painting Medusa’s Respite Room (2017, on loan from the Art Gallery of Western Australia) and Rosslynd Piggott’s Unknown Woman – From China to Brixton and Elsewhere in the new group exhibition Hair Pieces.
Curated by Melissa Keys, the exhibition at Heide explores the evocative and complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through a selection of recent Australian and international works of art. The show will further examine the myriad ways in which artists utilise hair to investigate and conjure generative and even magical possibilities encompassing growth, empowerment and transformation.
Hair Pieces Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen 4 May – 6 October 2024
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
