Rosslynd Piggott Selected Works: 1987 – 1997

3 – 31 August 2019
Constructing Paris (detail)
Rosslynd Piggott

Constructing Paris (detail)

, 1996
Kid leather gloves, hand painted map of Paris, card box, silk ribbon
29 x 25 x 2cm

Coinciding with Piggott’s survey show, I sense you, but I cannot see you, at the National Gallery of Victoria, this exhibition focuses on a formative period of the artist’s career – the decade from the late 1980s to 90s. The earliest work on view, A pile of hands, 1987, was created while on residency in Tuscany, the foundation of an enduring connection with Italy that has resonated throughout much of Piggott’s art. From here, the exhibition charts seminal developments including early forays into glass sculpture and, as evident in Constructing Paris, 1996 – in which the artist transferred an engraved map of Paris onto leather gloves – the beginnings of a preoccupation with space, distance and the material traces we leave on the world.

This exhibition is located at Sutton Projects, 230 Young St, Fitzroy.
Opening hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 1-5pm or by appointment.

Selected solo exhibitions

I sense you, but I cannot see you, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2019; Gardenia, gardenia and vapour window, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2019; Bloom, Spring 1883, Melbourne, 2018; Mirror Shift (doubled), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Garden Fracture/Mirror shift: part 2-Museo del Vertro, Murano, Italy, 2017; Garden Fracture: Mirror in vapour, Venice Art Factory, Venice, 2016; Last light/in vapour, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2015; Scent notations + ether and collapse: part 2, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Murmur, The Johnston Collection, Melbourne, 2013; Dividing Infinity: A Room for Painting, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2011; Measuring Night – new paintings and mirrors, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; Several types of flight – letters to the sky, Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, 2009;  Extract: in 3 parts, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 2009; Circling Ether, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2008; Extract: in 3 parts, ACCA, Melbourne, 2008.

Selected group exhibitions

Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017; A discernible air,QAGOMA, Brisbane, 2017; Contemporary Murano Glass Art, Murano Glass Museum, Venice, 2016; Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2015; Animal arch, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2014; Mix Tape 1980’s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing 4, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, 2013; Ten Years of Contemporary Art – The James C Sourris Collection, QAGOMA, Brisbane, 2012; Negotiating this World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2012; Fountains and Drains, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2011.

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Selected Works: 1987 – 1997
Rosslynd Piggott

Selected Works: 1987 – 1997

, 2019
Installation view, Sutton Projects
Selected Works: 1987 – 1997
Rosslynd Piggott

Selected Works: 1987 – 1997

, 2019
Installation view, Sutton Projects
Selected Works: 1987 – 1997
Rosslynd Piggott

Selected Works: 1987 – 1997

, 2019
Installation view, Sutton Projects
Selected Works: 1987 – 1997
Rosslynd Piggott

Selected Works: 1987 – 1997

, 2019
Installation view, Sutton Projects

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