Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams | National portrait gallery canberra |
Current exhibition
Overview
Joan Ross is a master at contextualising and recontextualising Australia's colonial past, with an edginess for today's viewing audiences.
- Gina Fairley, ARTShub Review, 4 November 2024
In a practice that spans collage, printmaking, sculpture and video animation, Ross probes the ongoing consequences of colonisation in Australia with wit and wry critique. Transforming scenes from colonial artworks through a digital 'cut and paste' technique and her signature fluorescent yellow, Ross explores critical issues like climate change, greed and consumerism.
For this exhibition, Ross was invited to select portraits from the National Portrait Gallery collection and situate them alongside her own artworks. The result considers how colonial artworks are contextualised within cultural institutions and asks us to question stories within the archives of history.
The show was curated collaboratively by Joan Ross, Coby Edgar and Emma Kindred, reflecting First Nations and non-First Nations perspectives on colonial narratives in the collection.
Works
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Joan RossShopping for butterfly, 2024hand-painted pigment print on cotton rag paper106 x 102.5 cm (frame size))
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Joan RossAlways the last one at the party, 2024hand-painted pigment print on cotton rag paper80 x 98 cm (paper size)
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Joan RossThose trees came back to me in my dreams, 2024hand-painted pigment print on cotton rag paper109.5 x 99.5 cm (frame size))
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Joan RossPossession for men and women - Van Diemens Land, 2024hand-painted pigment print on cotton rag paper68 x 98 cm (paper size)
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Joan RossI discovered this for you, Anthony Van Diemens Land, 2023hand-painted digital print on rag paper67 x 98 cm (image size)edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossThe Beginning of Greed, 2023hand-painted digital print on rag paper50 x 120 cm (image size)edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossFools rush in, 2019glass, plastic, resin and acrylic paint35 x 38 x 15cmEdition of 3 plus 1 artist's proofPOA
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Joan RossI didn't realise how much I loved you, 2024glass, plastic, resin and acrylic paint88 x 43 x 25.5 cmEdition of 3 plus 1 artist's proofPOA
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Joan RossBringing in the weeds 1836, 2024hand-painted digital print on cotton rag paper60.5 x 90 cmedition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
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Joan RossPossession for men & women - Van Diemens Land, 2023hand-painted digital print on rag paper41 x 58 cm (image size)edition of 15 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossAlways the last one at the party , 2023hand-painted digital print on rag paper
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Joan RossI Give You a Mountain, 2018HD video animation, 6 min 30 secEdition of 10 plus 2 APsPOA
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Joan RossFools paradise, 2018hand-painted digital collage113 x 83cmEdition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossHouston we have a problem, 2021hand-painted digital print on rag paper122 x 100 cmedition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossA Very Rare Bird, 2018hand-painted digital collage113 x 83cm
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Joan RossI like to name everything after myself, 2021hand-painted digital print on rag paper71 x 100 cmedition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossThings also go wrong in mansions. Upon the river, Van Diemens Land, 2023hand-painted digital print on rag paper60.5 x 97 cm (image size)edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossLearning to play their games, 2021hand-painted digital print on rag paper67 x 100 cmEdition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossWe have sung the same song for millions of years, 2021hand-painted digital print on rag paper59 x 100 cm (image size) 69.5 x 112 cm (framed size)edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossM'lady Ikebana, 2015hand painted pigment on cotton rag paper, unframed91.0 x 71 cmEdition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossView of Manly, Land of the tame, 2021hand-painted digital print on rag paper49 x 69 cm (image size) 59 x 79.5 cm (framed size)edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossView of the future, 2021hand-painted digital print on rag paper72 x 100 cmEdition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossView of New Holland, 1770, 2020hand-painted digital collage57 x 80cm
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Joan RossStocktake $ale! Now on!, 2015hand painted pigment on cotton rag paper61 x 90 cm
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Joan RossThe VIP Lounge, 2015hand-painted pigment print on cotton rag paper61 x 90cmEdition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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Joan RossI thought I loved you that much, 2012hand painted pigment print on cotton rag paper42.4 x 77.6 cm
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Joan RossPossession, 2022neon light, acrylic20 x 110 x 9 cmedition of 5 plus 1 artist's proofPOA
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Joan RossI thought I loved you that much, 2012hand painted pigment print on cotton rag paper42.4 x 77.6 cm
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Joan RossBarbie Bush, 2010single channel HD video animation54 secsedition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofsPOA
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