R O S A L I N D P R I C E
I'm a city-based person seeking connection with land and natural systems. A forager, fiddler, experimenter, I pursue a tactile, process-led practice, feeling my way towards new forms and ideas.
Drawing, painting, printmaking, playing with plant fibre and other found materials, I work with whatever catches my eye, exploring ways to interact with my surroundings. My focus tends to be on place: landscape and cityscape, domestic and public, familiar and foreign, internal and external. I fill sketchbooks on my travels around Australia and further afield.
I’m intrigued by the way we project our desires onto the physical world, and how the world pushes back - affecting our bodies and our moods, attracting or repelling, sustaining and destroying. I ponder being 'a part of nature yet apart from nature'.
My earlier professional life as a publisher of books for young people, working closely with authors and artists, fuelled my interest in the power of images to stir emotions, evoke place, and enrich narrative.
EXHIBITIONS & PRIZES:
SOLO
2024 The Fast And The Slow Of It Best Hobsons Bay Scene, Hobsons Bay Art Show
2021 Signs of Life, with soundtrack by viola player Ruby Shirres; shown internationally on Smartify in conjunction with
Gasworks Arts Park and Craft Contemporary
2020 Place Makings, Angela Roberts-Bird Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park
2018 Flow, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park
COLLABORATIVE
2023 Plantworks, with papermaker Gail Stiffe and eco-dyer Cecilia Sharpley, Bolin Bolin Gallery, Bulleen Plant & Garden, Bulleen
2019 Dark Pulse, with photographer Janie Forbes, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park
2015 Melbourne Storeys, City Library Gallery, Melbourne
2013 In Place Of…, Collingwood Gallery, Fitzroy
GROUP
2021, 2018, 2013 Linden Gallery Postcard Show, St Kilda
2016 Who Is Looking At You? Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize Exhibition, Collingwood
2013 Albert Park Art Show
2011 Break Out, Gipps Street Gallery, Melbourne
PROFESSIONAL & NOT-FOR-PROFIT:
Director, Pixel Seed Fund
Director, Swingbridge Arts | Jump Leads Productions
2013 Diploma of Visual Art, CAE
1985 - 2009 Publisher of Books for Children & Teenagers,
Associate Director, Allen & Unwin
Thanks to Paul Connor for website design and patient tech support.
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