This work has changed in the process of making it. It moved from a more political interest in the Scottish Right to Roam and the relational aspect of people to landscape, to a much more personal narrative. Sometimes an artwork just takes its own direction regardless of one's intention.
This work has almost become an animated version of one of my deeply personal drawings, the relationship between the windy man and his friend is intense and dependent.
This work reeks of failure and inadequacy. Failure in relationships, failure to keep going under pressure, but still there is hope, as we hold each other up and at least try.
Courtesy of Michael Reid Gallery
Joan Ross is an established artist working across the platforms of video animation, print, sculpture and installation. Her work reconfigures the Colonial Australian Landscape, drawing specific attention to first contact and the complex issues surrounding this that are still evident in Australia today.
Joan was recently included in Edmund Capon's ABC/BBC TV series The Art of Australia (2013) and Hannah Gadsby's Oz on ABC1. She exhibits extensively both in Australia and internationally and is held in major collections overseas and locally including The National Gallery of Australia and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Joan is a graduate of UNSW Art & Design, where she is a lecturer.
transparent landscape images on clear plastic, mini inflatable Air Dancer, electric/rechargeable battery fan
60 cm sq
Finalist
Judges of the 2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Wendy Whiteley OAM (Ambassador for the visual arts), Rhonda Davis (Senior Curator at Macquarie University Art Gallery) and Barry Keldoulis (CEO and Group Fairs Director of Art Fairs Australia).
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