For almost four decades, Rosslynd Piggott has maintained a prolific practice that encompasses – and often combines – painting, drawing, photography, hand-blown glass and installation.
Rosslynd Piggott
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; Selected Works: 19876 – 1997, Sutton Projects, Melbourne, 2019; Mirror Shift (doubled), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Garden Fracture/Mirror shift: part 2, Museo del Vetro, 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; Scent Notations + Ether and Collapse, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney, 2012; 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; Storm 2 Tracing Sky and Island, EbisuSpace, Tokyo, 2006; Dividing Infinity, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2006.
Selected group exhibitions: Bloom, Spring 1883, Melbourne, 2018; 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; Forever Young: 30 years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2011.
Solo Exhibitions
2021
- Rose cascade, descending- half light, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2019
- Rosslynd Piggott: I sense you but I cannot see you, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Selected works: 1987 - 1997, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Gardenia, gardenia and vapour window, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2018
- Rose, rose and a shadow of violet. Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2017
- Cumulus (mirrored) PhD exhibition, artist’s studio and apartment, Fitzroy, Victoria
- Mirror Shift (doubled), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Garden Fracture/Mirror in vapour: part 2, Museo del Vetro, Murano, Venice, Italy
2016
- Garden Fracture: Mirror in vapour. Venice Art Factory, Venice
2015
- Last light . Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan
- Last light 2 . Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2014
- Evaporated garden, powdered sky : recent paintings and drawings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2013
- Scent notations + ether and collapse: part 2 . Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- "Murmur“ - House of Ideas series, The Johnston Collection, Melbourne
2012
- Scent Notations + Ether and Collapse, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney
2011
- Dividing Infinity : A Room for Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art . Victoria
- Scent Notations + & Star / Giardino di Ninfa – Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010
- Measuring Night - new paintings and mirrors, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2009
- Double Void – paintings and mirrors, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
- Several types of flight - letters to the sky . drawings, Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan
2008
- Circling Ether - new paintings, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Extract : in 3 parts . Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2006
- Storm 2 Tracing Sky and Island A.R.T (Artist Residency Tokyo) ,Ebisu Space , Tokyo , Japan
- Yamazakura Shinsei Bank Art Project, LCD DVD screen and installation, Omotesando Hills Building, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
- Dividing Infinity, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Night Eye and Blossom Face Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan
- Yamazakura, Melbourne Art Fair V.I.P room
- Night Eye, Blossom Face and Yamazakura, Sutton Gallery warehouse, Melbourne
- New paintings, Bellas Milani Galley, Brisbane
2005
- Commissioned 3 Dimensional displays incorporating archaeological artefacts, The Urban Workshop, Melbourne. Architect John Wardle.
2004
- Endless blossom space, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2003
- Storm 2 & Tracing Sky and 2 New Paintings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
- Gallery 360º, Tokyo
- Horizon-love unpeeled, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Storm 2 & Tracing Sky, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Storm 2 Church Gallery, Perth
- Storm Citylights, Centre Place, Melbourne
- Nature in Black, Gallery 360º, Tokyo
- Nature in Black, Window Gallery at Walter Van Beirendonck, Antwerp, Belgium
2000
- This moment in Nature: objects recording Night, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- This moment in Nature: paintings recording Night, Bellas Gallery, Queensland
- Rosslynd Piggott: Object and Material, Canberra School of Art Gallery, The Australian National University
1999
- Echo 1999 2, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Echo, Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan
1998
- Suspended Breath, an extensive survey at The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Swallowing Night 2- This perfect cube of empty night, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1997
- Swallowing Night, Kitamoto Cultural Centre, Saitama, Japan
- La Somnambule, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1996
- Measuring the distance between Paris and pure blue, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1995
- Conversation: an installation, Westspace, Melbourne
- Two Spaces: Here, there, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994
- Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1992
- Palace 2, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Palace 2, Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide, 1992 Adelaide Festival Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990
- Palace, installation, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988
- The Back of a Princess, Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne
1987
- 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
- Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2022
- Air, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Courage and Beauty: The James C. Sourris AM Collection, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- wHole, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- Things that will not sit still, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2021
- Newer Landscapes, LON Gallery, Melbourne
2020
- Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Rosslynd Piggott, Nusra Latif Qureshi: Selected works, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- Towards RegrowthL Art Aid for Fire Relief, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2019
- Health & Wellness, Rear 70 Smith Street, Melbourne
- Manifest, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2018
- Overdrawn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- In Bloom, Spring 1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
- In between- Notions of transition and intermediate, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- Infinite conversations: Asian - Australian artistic exchange, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2017
- Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Melbourne
- Everbloom: and an extract of rose, Bus Projects, Melbourne
- A discernible air, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2016
- Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
- Murano Today: Emotions of Glass, Museum del Vetro, Venice Italy
2015
- 21st Century Heide : The collection since 2000, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Melbourne
2014
- Animal arch – depiction of the animal in art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2013
- Atlas for the Devil, Greenwood Street Project Space, Melbourne
- Mix Tape 1980’s: Appropriation, Subculture,Critical Style, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne - Vibrant Matter, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Tarrawarra
- 10 Years 30 Artists Art Angels, Turner Galleries, Perth
- Home: Reframing Craft and Domesticity, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, City of
Banyule - The Art ofSound, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
- Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing 4, New York Studio School
- Reinventing the Wheel : The Readymade Century, MUMA, Monash University.
- Melbourne Now, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012
- Ten Years of Contemporary Art – The James C Sourris Collection Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
- Contemporary – Rehang of John Kaldor Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- R & M McGivern Prize, Maroondah City Art Gallery
- 2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize . Geelong Art Gallery Silver
- 1987 – 2012, Wangaratta Art Gallery
- Of Virgins . Greenwood Street Project Space, Melbourne
- I Would Breathe Water . Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne
- Negotiating this World : Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne
2011
- Fountains and Drains, The British School at Rome, Italy
- The Naked Face : Self Portraits . The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Dark Light - Collaborative show with Andrew Hazewinkel, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
Forever Young : 30 years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne - Unravelled : artists books and typographical prints from the Banyule Art Collection, Banyule Arts Space
2010
- The Beauty of Distance- Songs of Surviival in a Precarious Age . The Biennale of Sydney , 2010 .
- PainThing . AEAF , Adelaide , South Australia .
- Slow Burn . A century of Austrlian women artists from a private collection, S.H Ervin Gallery National Trust Centre, Sydney
- The 1980’s – works form the Port Phililip Collection – St Kilda Town Hall
- Melbourne / Brisbane – punk . art and after, The Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne
2009
- 2009 New Zealand Art Fair. Auckland - represented by Sutton Gallery
- Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2008
- 2008 In praise of blandness“, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
- Lives and Times : A National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition
- Premonitions : Monash University Collection 1961 – 2007, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria
- Time and Place : Selected works from the TWMA collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
- Into the Closet – objects , garments and creative assessments of male identity . The Carlton Hotel and studios, Melbourne
- When you think about art, The Ewing and George Paton Gallery 1971 – 2008, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
- The Naked and the Nude, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery .
- 360 Editions 2000- 2008, Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan
2007
- Curious Forms Latrobe University Gallery Victoria
- Eye to ‘ I ‘, Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
- Cross – Currents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006
- Reverie, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design Monash University, Victoria
- Decade Acquisitions 1996 – 2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2005
- Moist : Australian Watercolours, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and travelling nationally
2004
- So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, Australian Painting from the NGV Shell Collection, An NGV Victorian regional touring exhibition
- Clouded Over, Laurence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
- 2004 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
- 2004 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
- The Joseph Brown Collection at NGV Australia, Melbourne
- The Arthur Guy Prize for Painting, Finalist, Bendigo Art Gallery
- The Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2003
- Heimlich unHeimlich, RMIT Storey Hall, as part of Melbourne Festival
- Australia at ARCO ’02 Sutton Gallery at ARCO, Madrid, Spain
- The Shape of Air (flat) Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
- The Shape of Air, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
- A Modelled World McClelland Art Gallery, Victoria
Hothouse : The flower in contemporary art, MUMA Monash University, Melbourne
2001
- Our Place – Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art Monash University
- Museum of Art at Prato, Palazzo Vaj., Prato, Italy
- National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Cecily and Colin Rigg Contemporary Craft Award, National Gallery of Victoria
- Desire, RMIT Gallery
- A Studio in Paris – Australian Artists at the Cité, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
- Uncommon World, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- The Paris Syndrome, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- La Cadavre Exquis, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
- John Leslie Art Prize 2000, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
- Trace, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
- Look Again – Contemporary Prints & Drawings from the Collection, National Gallery of Victoria
- Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
- The Infinite Space- Women, Minimalism the Sculptural Object, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
- Strolling, The Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1997
- Fragments-Relation, Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 13th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
- Multiplication: the multiple object in art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
- Other Stories, Asialink exhibition touring to South Asia 1997/8
- Australian artists of the 1980s, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria
- International Multiples, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Still life, Still lives, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Nature, Project Space RMIT, Melbourne
- Deacons, Graham and James ARTS 21 Award, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
- The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Hamilton Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery
1996
- Reservoir, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
- Imagining the Real, Parliament House, Canberra
- The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York
- Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria
- Perception and Perspective, Next Wave Festival, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria
1995
- The Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne
- Artists Editions, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
- NON - Artists against Nuclear Testing, The 1995 Greenpeace Artists Fundraiser, Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne
- Lovers, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
- Decadence: 10 years of exhibitions at 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne
- Carnivale des animaux, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1994
- The Aberrant Object: Women, Dada and Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art at Heide (Installation, Fall 1993/94)
- Creators and Inventors: Australian Women's Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (installation: Double Breath (contained) of the Sitter 1993/94)
1993
- Arrangement: Australian Still Life 1973-1993, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
- Inner Space, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
- The Art of Collecting, Geelong Art Gallery Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australian State Galleries; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Mori Gallery, Sydney
1992
- Above the Lake, Below the Sky, Benalla Art Gallery
- The Nude, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
- The Angelic Space, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
- Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists, RMIT gallery
- Domino I, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
- Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe 1982 -1992, Jardin Pabellion de les Artes Expo 92, Seville, Spain; Australian Embassy, Paris
- ...but never by chance..., Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; School of Art, Canberra; Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne; Wilderness Society, Linden Art Gallery
1991
- Ellipses, 13 Verity Street, Richmond
- Logos, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
- Artists Make Books, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne; Chameleon Gallery, Hobart; Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell; Contemporary Arts Space, Canberra
1990
- Monash University Collection - Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Gallery
- Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney Anonymous Exhibition, Anderson St, West Melbourne
- New Art, Recent Acquisitions of Australian Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1989
- The Intimate Object, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
- Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Outlines of Australian Art, The Joseph Brown Collection, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Physical Culture, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
- Scotchman's Hill Prize, The Geelong Art Gallery
- New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988
- Quartet, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- A New Generation 1983 - 1988, The Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987
- Quiddity, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- The Golden Shibboleth, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- Young Australians, Budget Transport Industries Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, and touring nationally
1986
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Working Drawings, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- Fears and Scruples, Melbourne University Gallery
- St Kilda Acquisitive Show, Linden, Melbourne
1985
- 2D - 3D, Art About Fashion, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- Figure, Fantasy, Fetish , RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1983
- New Work - Drawing, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne
1982
- Brim-Brim Gallery, Queenscliffe
1981
- Noise and Musak, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
Selected Collections
- ANZ Bank Collection
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Artbank, Sydney
- Bendigo Art Gallery
- Ballarat Art Gallery
- BHP Billiton
- British School at Rome, Italy
- City of Banyule
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Derwent Collection
- Joseph Brown Collection
- Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital
- Holmes a Court Collection
- Monash University Museum of Art Melbourne
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
- Queensland Art Gallery
- S & M Smorgon Collection
- St Kilda Council Collection
- A.R.T Tokyo Collection, Japan
- Tarrawarra Museum of Art Collection
- The Vizard Foundation Art Collection, The University of Melbourne
- Wesfarmers, Perth
- Wesley College, Melbourne
- Private collections: Australia, Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp , London, New York
Awards, Prizes and Grants
2021
- Shortlisted, 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2014
- Australia Council , New Work Development Grant for Glass Engraving Work with Ongaro e Fuga, Murano, Venice
2013
- Australia Council Studio, Acme Studios, London
2012
- R & M McGivern Prize
2011
- International Fund, Arts Victoria for Residency at Berengo Glass, Murano, Venice
2010
- Australia Council Overseas studio at The British School at Rome
2003
- International Touring Fund, Arts Victoria.
- New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Fund of the Australia Council
- International Touring Fund, Arts Victoria
1998
- International Touring Fund, Arts Victoria
1997
- New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Fund of the Australia Council
- Sai-no Kuni Artist in residence, Saitama, Japan
1996
- Arts and Cultural Development Grant, Arts Victoria
1993
- Power Studio of the University of Sydney at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1992
- Sara Weis 1992 Nude Award
1990
- Artists Development Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council
1988
- Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council
1987-88
- Australia Council Studio, 'Il Paretaio', Italy
- St Kilda Council Acquisitive Prize
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Rosslynd Piggott is represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan.
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![(L-R) Michael Armitage, Sleight of Hand 2016, collection of Sang Il Kim, Seoul; Tom Kreisler, Lightness of Hand, Fleetness of Foot 1984, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2022; John Spiteri, Dis-solution 2006, courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Eora Country, in Sydney; Rosslynd Piggott, Ten Rimbauds Holding One Rimbaud 1986, Port Phillip City Collection, Naarm/Melbourne, purchased through St Kilda Festival Acquisitive Exhibition, City of St Kilda, 1986. Installation view: Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2023. Photo: Christian Capurro]( "(L-R) Michael Armitage, Sleight of Hand 2016, collection of Sang Il Kim, Seoul; Tom Kreisler, Lightness of Hand, Fleetness of Foot 1984, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2022; John Spiteri, Dis-solution 2006, courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Eora Country, in Sydney; Rosslynd Piggott, Ten Rimbauds Holding One Rimbaud 1986, Port Phillip City Collection, Naarm/Melbourne, purchased through St Kilda Festival Acquisitive Exhibition, City of St Kilda, 1986. Installation view: Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2023. Photo: Christian Capurro")
Rosslynd PiggottArtist Talk | In Conversation![<span class="artist">Gareth Sansom</span><span class="title"> Temptation</span><span class="year"> 2008</span>, <span class="medium">Oil, enamel and collage on linen</span>, <span class="dimen dimen-notes">183 x 244 cm</span>]( "<span class=\"artist\">Gareth Sansom</span><span class=\"title\"> Temptation</span><span class=\"year\"> 2008</span>, <span class=\"medium\">Oil, enamel and collage on linen</span>, <span class=\"dimen dimen-notes\">183 x 244 cm</span>")
Gordon Bennett, Gareth Sansom, Rosslynd PiggottExhibition at Monash University Museum of Art![<span class="artist">Peter Kennedy</span><span class="title"> Neon Light Installation</span><span class="year"> 1970</span>, <span class="medium">Neon lights</span>]( "<span class=\"artist\">Peter Kennedy</span><span class=\"title\"> Neon Light Installation</span><span class=\"year\"> 1970</span>, <span class=\"medium\">Neon lights</span>")
Bonita Ely, D Harding, Gordon Bennett, Jon Cattapan, Judy Watson, Peter Kennedy, Richard Bell, Robert Hunter, Ross Manning, Rosslynd Piggott, Vernon Ah Kee, Vivienne BinnsExhibition at QAGOMA
