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Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 24 Aug 2024 - 2 Feb 2025Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams is a vibrant and dynamic exhibition by acclaimed contemporary artist Joan Ross. In a practice that spans collage, printmaking,...Read more -
Sunrise, Sunset.
N.Smith Gallery 30 May - 8 Jun 2024To celebrate the gallery's 3rd birthday, 15 of the gallery's represented artists are brought together thematically. Holly Anderson Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Fiona...Read more -
Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat
Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral 17 Feb - 5 May 2024In the same boat presents works from Joan Ross' practice spanning early-career objects and paintings through to recent sculptures and animations. Exploring the disjunction between colonisation and nature and...Read more -
Joan Ross: Imagine if they'd cared.
N.Smith Gallery 5 - 29 Jul 2023Joan Ross moves between mediums deftly. Whether drawing, print, animation or virtual reality, it is impossible not to recognise her poignant works, not least for the hi-vis yellow which marks...Read more -
Archibald, Wynne, & Sulman Prizes
Art Gallery of NSW 6 May 2023 - 18 Aug 2024N.Smith Gallery is delighted to announce Natasha Walsh, Joan Ross, & Sally Scales are finalists in the Archibald & Wynne prizes. Archibald touring dates / venues: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery...Read more -
Archibald Prize 2022
Art Gallery of NSW 14 May - 28 Aug 2022Joan Ross is known for her interdisciplinary practice that confronts Australia’s colonial legacy. In this portrait, she has painted herself as a colonial woman holding the stump of a tree...Read more -
Destination Sydney: The Natural World
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 4 Jan - 20 Mar 2022Destination Sydney: The Natural World focuses on artworks responding to the theme of Sydney as a place of creative endeavours, with a strong focus on the work of major Australian...Read more -
Joan Ross:
N.Smith Gallery 3 Nov - 18 Dec 2021
I like to name everything after myself.Joan Ross is consistently challenging the dominant narratives of history, questioning who writes it, what is written in and what gets left out. Focussing on collecting practices, I like to...Read more -
Archibald Prize 2021
Art Gallery of New South Wales 4 Jun - 26 Sep 2021Joan Ross is a finalist in the The Archibald Prize with Joan as a Colonial Woman Looking at the Future – a self portrait. The exhibition will tour to the...Read more -
Joan Ross: Collector’s Paradise
Enlighten Festival | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021For the 2021 Enlighten Festival, Ross has created a vivid animation that transforms the National Gallery of Australia’s façade and asks us to think about museums as places that keep,...Read more -
Joan Ross: We have sung the same song for millions of years
Art Gallery of New South Wales 1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022Joan Ross’ commissioned artwork, We have sung the same song for millions of years, a hand-painted digital vinyl print, has been installed on the hoarding. The 20-metre site-specific work pays...Read more -
Joan Ross: Did you ask the river?
Australian Centre for the Moving Image | Melbourne 7 - 31 Mar 2019Did you ask the river? is the second Mordant Family Commission VR, a three-year program worth $240,000 that supports Australian artists who have never worked in VR before to create...Read more -
Just Not Australian
Artspace | touring nationally 18 Jan 2019 - 29 Oct 2023Just Not Australian brings together 19 Australian artists across generations and mediums to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood. This timely thematic show will showcase...Read more -
Word: MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 4 Dec 2017 - 18 Feb 2018The digital animation The Claiming of Things uses an early colonial Australian painting by John Glover as its background. Here, the untouched Australian bush landscape he originally painted for The...Read more -
Sulman Prize 2017
Art Gallery of New South Wales 29 Jul - 17 Sep 2017This work continues my interrogation of colonial collecting and of Australian colonisation. I imagine history is an unfaithful lover, in his own bubble with his lies, seduction and manipulation, only...Read more -
MCA Collection: Today Tomorrow Yesterday
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 1 Sep 2016 - 27 Jan 2021Colonial Grab is an animation of scenes traversing time and place, peopled by an aristocratic couple who time-travel from pokie parlour, to desert, to sitting room, to colonial landscape. The...Read more -
Joan Ross: 20-50% off all plants and animals
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | Katoomba 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2015