SALLY ROSS
Sally Ross’ new body of work pursues the picturesque. She presents visions of rainforests, frangipani trees, tropical plants and berries, strange bushes and undergrowth, swarming leaves, fronds and blurs of foliage. The artist introduces luscious pops of colour – pinks and orange – amidst a lush and steady stream of greens and blues. The paintings move between imagined and real landscapes, continuing to gravitate away from compositions sourced from found images to now focus on the seen, and the beauty and pleasing visions to be found in the real world.
I sense a buzz of recognition when I am in a place that I must paint, to share its beauty and strangeness. My paintings no longer bear witness to landscapes of fantasy and longing for distant places – they now inch towards an appreciation of the real, the experienced. I want to paint these visions.
Ross has exhibited internationally in Australia, France and the United States of America, Australia, Belgium, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. A six-time Archibald Prize finalist, Ross’ works are held in the , France; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Artbank, Melbourne; Macquarie University Collection, Sydney, Fondation Maeght, St-Paul de Vence; along with private collections in Austria, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
LIST OF WORKS
Bay pink flowers, 2024, oil on board, 100 x 80 cm
Frangipani (diptych), 2024, oil on board, 46 x 76 cm
Bay, 2024, oil on board, 130 x 100 cm
Wood, 2024, oil on board, 110 x 130 cm
Landscape (bay), 2024, oil on board, 100 x 80 cm
Landscape (pink yellow), 2024, oil on board, 130 x 110 cm
Landscape (pink), 2024, oil on board, 130 x 110 cm
Woods, 2024, oil on board, 100 x 80 cm
Tropical Berry Plants, 2024, oil on board, 100 x 80 cm
Landscape (woods), 2024, oil on board, 100 x 80 cm
Tropical Landscape with palm, 2024, oil on board, 65 x 55 cm
Landscape, 2024, oil on board, 130 x 110cm
Ridge, 2024, Oil on board, 80 x 100 cm
Rainforest, 2024, oil on board, 100 x 80 cm
Tropical Plants (orange), 2024, oil on board, 65 x 55 cm
Tropical Landscape, 2024, oil on board, 130 x 110 cm
Frangipani (diptych), 2024
Landscape (pink yellow), 2024
Tropical Landscape with palm, 2024
Tropical Plants (orange), 2024
Born 1969, Melbourne
Lives and works in Melbourne
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2023 Smith & Singer, Melbourne
2022 Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2020 Smith & Singer, Melbourne
2019 Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2018 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2016 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2015 Galerie Sultana, Paris - March
2014 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2012 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2012 Galerie Sultana, Paris
2010 Galerie Baumet Sultana, Paris
2010 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2008 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2007 Murray White Room, Melbourne
2007 Galerie Baumet/Sultana, Paris
2006 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Galerie Baumet/Sultana, Paris
2005 Snake, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004 Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2003 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003 Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2001 sure enough, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (touring)
2023 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2023 Archie 100, touring nationally
2022 Melbourne Art Fair, MCEC, Melbourne
2022 Archie 100, touring nationally
2022 Archibald Prize, touring natinoally
2021 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (touring)
2021 Archie 100, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (touring)
2021 Winter Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2020 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019 Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney
2018 Territory, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2018 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (touring)
2018 Portia Geach Memorial Prize, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney - Finalist
2018 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
2018 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018 Spring 1883 (art fair), Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2018 Intimate Realities: Recent works from the SAM collection, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Fondation Maeght, St-Paul de Vence, France
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Macquarie University Collection, Sydney
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Private collections in USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium & Australia
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton