Rosslynd Piggott is an Australian artist whose practice encompasses painting, hand-blown glasswork, photography, drawing and installation. Evoking a world of sensory subtlety and poetic ambiguity, her work resists straightforward interpretation, instead inviting viewers into dream-like spaces where meaning is felt rather than explained. Drawing on surrealism, symbolism and the uncanny, Piggott explores the thin boundary between the visible and the invisible, between air, breath, reflection, material states, time and memory. Piggott transforms fleeting experiences into enduring forms of beauty, offering audiences an encounter that hovers between the material and the sublime.
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
Selected Bibliography
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- Allison, Josephine. “ Long road to digital expression “ The West Australian . 7 August, 2002.
- Attiwell, Suzie. 'Murmur reviewed …', Artichoke magazine, 2013.
- Backhouse, Megan. ‘Piggott at Citylights’, The Age, 28 November 2001.
- Backhouse, Megan. ‘Piggott airs her delicate touch’, The Age, 8 May 2002.
- Backhouse, Megan. 'Rosslynd Piggott', The Age (Melbourne) magazine, March 2006.
- Backhouse, Megan. “Artists speak up for city studios“ The Age, 20 September 2006.
- Barclay, Alison. ‘Holding her breath’, The HeraldSun, 7 July 1998.
- Birmingham Fujii ,Lucy. Rosslynd Piggott , Roberto Giostra and Edison at Omotesando Hills“, September / Asian Art News, October 2006 Vol. 16. No. 5.
- Bolton, Ken. 'Piggott's Palace a memorable journey', The Advertiser (Adelaide) 11 March, 1992.
- Bolton, Ken. 'For Once the Erotic fails to shock', The Advertiser (Adelaide) 15 March, 1992.
- Bond, Tony. Trace, ex.cat, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, UK, 1999. Contemporary - Art Gallery of New South Wales. Contemporary Collection. Chapter - “Imagining the Body “, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006.
- Brown, Jenny. “ Style ? It’s art décor “ The Age . 29 July 2006.
- Burns, Karen. “The Urban Workshop “, Architecture Australia July / August 2006. Vol. 95 No. 4.
- Cass, Naomi. ‘Suspended Breath. Refining dreams and sensibilities’, Art and Australia, Vol. 36, No. 3, 1999.
- Cass, Naomi. Fears and Scruples, ex.cat., University of Melbourne, 1986.
- Cass, Naomi. 'Empty vessels make the most sound', Rosslynd Piggott ex.cat. Powell St Gallery, 1992.
- Catalano, Gary. 'States of Flux: an interview with Rosslynd Piggott', Art Monthly, August, No.72, 1994.
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- Catalano, Gary. 'Correspondence, Whispers, Moods', The Age, 4 April, 1990.
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- Catalano, Gary. ‘Building a Picture - interviews with Australian artists’, McGraw-Hill, Melbourne, 1999.
- Coslovich, Gabriella. “City’s arty image the in thing , but artists on the way out“ The Age . 7 September 2006.
- Clabburn, Anna. “Three strolling artists lead the way at MOMA”, The Age, 11 Nov, 1998.
- Clabburn, Anna. “When less is much more”, The Age, 9 December, 1998.
- Coates, Rebecca. " An Unbearable Lightness of Being “. exhibition catalogue.
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- Delany, Max. “Strolling – the art of arcades , boulevards , barricades, publicity. Catalogue. Heide Museum of Art, 1998.
- Edquist, Harriet & Engberg, Juliana. The Angelic Space, ex.cat., Monash University Gallery, 1992.
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- Edwards, Geoffrey. ‘The Art of Glass – Rosslynd Piggott and Tony Cragg’, Art Monthly, No. 129, June 2000.
- Engberg, Juliana. 'Fast and Loose. The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial', Art and Australia, Vol. 31, No.3, Autumn , 1994.
- Engberg, Juliana. The Aberrant Object, ex.cat., Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1994
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- Engberg, Juliana. ‘Free Fall’, catalogue essay for Suspended Breath, The National Gallery of Victoria, 1998.
- Ewington, Julie. “Beauty and turmoil : Two paths through the James C Sourris Collection“. catalogue – Ten years of Contemporary Art . The James C Sourris Collection. Queensland Art Gallery. Gallery of Modern Art. 2010.
- Fall, Nicole. ‘Rosslynd Piggott: a Void in Tokyo’, Worth Global Style Network, 19 June 2001.
- Fenner, Felicity. 'Erotica Blooms', The Sydney Morning Herald, August , 1992.
- Fitzpatrick, Anthony. ‘ Finding Affinity : A conversation between Rosslynd Piggott and Anthony Fitzpatrick . catalogue - Rosslynd Piggott - Dividing Infinity – A Room for Painting. TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2010.
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- Gates, Merryn. ‘A way of being in the world- a conversation with Rosslynd Piggott’, ex.cat.,Suspended Breath, The National Gallery of Victoria, 1998 ex , cat . “ Cross Currents “ Museum of Contemporary Art “ 2007.
- Gates, Merryn. “ Rosslynd Piggott in The Urban Workshop foyer “ Object magazine . Volume 54, page 50.
- Gates, Merryn. “Making it up as we went “, Art Monthly, Art meets Fashion issue 242, August 2011.
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- Genocchio, B. ‘Discrete charm of the allusion-ist’, The Australian, 12 June, 2000.
- Grishin, Sasha. ‘Personal, unique language’, The Canberra Times, 31 May, 2000.
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University. - Heathcote, Chris. 'A show of modern colour', The Age, 15 June , 1994.
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- Holmes, Jonathon & Colless, Edward. Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe 1982 - 1992, ex.cat, University of Tasmania, 1992.
- Kiely, Annemarie. ‘Let’s talk about Art “ Belle . February / March 2001
- Kiely, Annemarie. “Vibrazioni di Colore“ Elle Décor / Italian edition. October 2003.
- King, Natalie. The 17th Biennale of Sydney : Harnessing the Globe. Flash Art, July-September 2010.
- Lancashire, Rebecca. 'Of clear blue skies and our hands and feet’, The Age, 7 November, 1996.
- Lindsay, Robert. ‘Wrapped in fine detail’, The Age, 7 July 1998.
- Lindsay, Robert. The Golden Shibboleth, ex.cat., Gertrude Street, 1987.
- Lindsay, Robert. The Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Melbourne, 1995.
- Marsh, Anne. 'A Veiled Discourse', Photofile, No. 30, Winter, 1990.
- Marshall, Brenda. 'Rosslynd Piggott : Creating a First Innocence', Binocular, Moët & Chandon Contemporary Edition, 1994.
- Martin, Lauren. ‘Gallery Head Intent on Adding a bit of Colour’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 2001.
- McAuliffe, Chris. 'An Inappropriate Remark about Rosslynd Piggott', Rosslynd Piggott ex.cat., Powell St Gallery, 1992.
- McAuliffe, Chris. 'The Pleasure Principle', World Art, No.1, 1995.
- McAuliffe, Chris. “Rosslynd Piggott“ What is Installation ? - an anthology of writings on Australian installation art, Power Publications, Sydney, 2006 . p. 249 - 253. Essay included in “Volume - John Wardle architecture". Thames Hudson, 2007.
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- McDonald, Anne. Moist – Australian Watercolors catalogue National Gallery of Australia 2005
- McDonald, John & R. Ian Lloyd. “Studio: Australian Painters on the nature of creativity“, R. Ian Lloyd Productions. 2007.
- McKenzie, Robyn. 'Next Wave of perception’, The Age, 22 May 1996.
- McPhee, John. “Rosslynd Piggott: The Realm of the senses“. Artist Profile. Issue 18, 2012.
- Miller, Ronald. 'Piggott's Very Personal View', The Herald, 4 April, 1990.
- Miller, Stephen. “Dogs in Australian Art: A New History of Antipodean Creativity“, Wakefield Press. 2012.
- Murray Cree, Laura & Drury Neville. Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000.
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1999. - Nelson, Robert. ‘Learning to be Exotic’, The Age, October 18, 2000.
- Nelson, Robert. “When the natural world and consumerism collide“, The Age, September 3, 2008.
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Rosslynd Piggott is represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo, Japan.
