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Joan Ross

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  • Archibald & Wynne Prizes 2025

    Archibald & Wynne Prizes 2025

    Art Gallery of NSW 10 May - 17 Aug 2025
    We are delighted to announce Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Natasha Walsh, Vipoo Srivilasa, Holly Anderson, and Casey Chen are finalists in the Archibald and Wynne Prizes.⁠ ⁠ Joan Ross is...
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  • Joan Ross: Heads or tails.

    Joan Ross: Heads or tails.

    N.Smith Gallery 8 - 31 May 2025
    Known for her incisive explorations of Australia's colonial legacy, Joan Ross returns with a vibrant series of new paintings, works on paper, and a new animation commissioned by the National...
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  • The Interior.

    The Interior.

    N.Smith Gallery 3 Apr - 3 May 2025
    The exhibition The Interior invites viewers into a world of intimate spaces, where the boundaries between the interior and the exterior blur. Through diverse mediums and artistic practices, this exhibition...
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  • Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams

    Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams

    National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 24 Aug 2024 - 27 Apr 2025
    Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams is a vibrant and dynamic exhibition by acclaimed contemporary artist Joan Ross. In a practice that spans collage, printmaking,...
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  • Sunrise, Sunset.

    Sunrise, Sunset.

    N.Smith Gallery 30 May - 8 Jun 2024
    To celebrate the gallery's 3rd birthday, 15 of the gallery's represented artists are brought together thematically. Holly Anderson Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Fiona...
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  • We Move As A Murmuration

    We Move As A Murmuration

    Timespan, Scotland 23 Mar 2024 - 16 Mar 2025
    Joan Ross is included in We Move As A Murmuration at Timespan, Scotland with her works I Give You a Mountain [animation], and Houston, we have a problem. Curated by...
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  • Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat

    Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat

    Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral 17 Feb - 5 May 2024
    In the same boat presents works from Joan Ross' practice spanning early-career objects and paintings through to recent sculptures and animations. Exploring the disjunction between colonisation and nature and the...
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  • Joan Ross: Imagine if they'd cared.

    Joan Ross: Imagine if they'd cared.

    N.Smith Gallery 5 - 29 Jul 2023
    Joan Ross moves between mediums deftly. Whether drawing, print, animation or virtual reality, it is impossible not to recognise her poignant works, not least for the hi-vis yellow which marks...
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  • Archibald, Wynne, & Sulman Prizes

    Archibald, Wynne, & Sulman Prizes

    Art Gallery of NSW 6 May 2023 - 18 Aug 2024
    N.Smith Gallery is delighted to announce Natasha Walsh, Joan Ross, & Sally Scales are finalists in the Archibald & Wynne prizes. Archibald touring dates / venues: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery...
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  • Archibald Prize 2022

    Archibald Prize 2022

    Art Gallery of NSW 14 May - 28 Aug 2022
    Joan Ross is known for her interdisciplinary practice that confronts Australia’s colonial legacy. In this portrait, she has painted herself as a colonial woman holding the stump of a tree...
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  • Destination Sydney: The Natural World

    Destination Sydney: The Natural World

    Manly Art Gallery & Museum 4 Jan - 20 Mar 2022
    Destination Sydney: The Natural World focuses on artworks responding to the theme of Sydney as a place of creative endeavours, with a strong focus on the work of major Australian...
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  • Joan Ross: I like to name everything after myself.

    Joan Ross:
    I like to name everything after myself.

    N.Smith Gallery 3 Nov - 18 Dec 2021
    Joan Ross is consistently challenging the dominant narratives of history, questioning who writes it, what is written in and what gets left out. Focussing on collecting practices, I like to...
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  • Archibald Prize 2021

    Archibald Prize 2021

    Art Gallery of New South Wales 4 Jun - 26 Sep 2021
    Joan Ross is a finalist in the The Archibald Prize with Joan as a Colonial Woman Looking at the Future – a self portrait. The exhibition will tour to the...
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  • Joan Ross: Collector’s Paradise

    Joan Ross: Collector’s Paradise

    Enlighten Festival | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021
    For the 2021 Enlighten Festival, Ross has created a vivid animation that transforms the National Gallery of Australia’s façade and asks us to think about museums as places that keep,...
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  • Joan Ross: We have sung the same song for millions of years

    Joan Ross: We have sung the same song for millions of years

    Art Gallery of New South Wales 1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
    Joan Ross’ commissioned artwork, We have sung the same song for millions of years , a hand-painted digital vinyl print, has been installed on the hoarding. The 20-metre site-specific work...
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  • Joan Ross: Did you ask the river?

    Joan Ross: Did you ask the river?

    Australian Centre for the Moving Image | Melbourne 7 - 31 Mar 2019
    Did you ask the river? is the second Mordant Family Commission VR, a three-year program worth $240,000 that supports Australian artists who have never worked in VR before to create...
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  • Just Not Australian

    Just Not Australian

    Artspace | touring nationally 18 Jan 2019 - 29 Oct 2023
    Just Not Australian brings together 19 Australian artists across generations and mediums to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood. This timely thematic show will showcase...
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  • Word: MCA Collection

    Word: MCA Collection

    Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 4 Dec 2017 - 18 Feb 2018
    The digital animation The Claiming of Things uses an early colonial Australian painting by John Glover as its background. Here, the untouched Australian bush landscape he originally painted for The...
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  • Sulman Prize 2017

    Sulman Prize 2017

    Art Gallery of New South Wales 29 Jul - 17 Sep 2017
    This work continues my interrogation of colonial collecting and of Australian colonisation. I imagine history is an unfaithful lover, in his own bubble with his lies, seduction and manipulation, only...
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  • MCA Collection: Today Tomorrow Yesterday

    MCA Collection: Today Tomorrow Yesterday

    Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 1 Sep 2016 - 27 Jan 2021
    Colonial Grab is an animation of scenes traversing time and place, peopled by an aristocratic couple who time-travel from pokie parlour, to desert, to sitting room, to colonial landscape. The...
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  • Joan Ross: 20-50% off all plants and animals

    Joan Ross: 20-50% off all plants and animals

    Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | Katoomba 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2015
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