Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial 2024 Digital Gallery
Rebecca Ross
b.1977 Melbourne VIC, lives Gold Coast QLD
Formations and Earth-Sky Connections, 2024
Coral Sea: Papua New Guinea 2024
map collage, substrate map: Papua New Guinea, Department of Defence (1971), hand cut map text: Il Mondo Edizione Inglese, Michelin (2005), glasochrom pencil
Coral Sea: Cape Upstart 2024
map collage, substrate map: Cape Upstart, Royal Australian Survey Corps (1982), hand cut map text: Queensland Road Map, Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) (1999), glasochrom pencil
Coral Sea: Cape Capricorn 2024
map collage, substrate map: Cape Capricorn, Commonwealth Government (1970), hand cut map text: Robinson's Australia, Lansdowne Press (Date Unknown), glasochrom pencil
Coral Sea: Amity, Point Lookout 2024
map collage, substrate map: Amity, Point Look Out, Queensland Government (1971), hand cut map text: Australia, NATMAP/Reader's Digest (Date Unknown), glasochrom pencil
Diamonds and Echelons 2024
colour digital video collage: Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II, single channel with sound
11min 11sec
Sound produced in collaboration with David M. Thomas. Research supported by The Lock-Up Newcastle Artist in Residence program
Commissioned for Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial
Image courtesy of HOTA, Home of the Arts
Artist Statement
Tracing a line from Papua New Guinea to Point Lookout, Rebecca Ross navigates personal and geopolitical connections between earth and sky in Formations and Earth-Sky Connections.
The works employ collage in their formation, using maps, text, and digital clips to resonate with the Gold Coast and beyond. Rebecca pinpoints tensions in the Coral Sea and within dynamic littoral zones that serve as sources of leisure, natural resources, and cultural memory and are vulnerable climatically and militarily.
Reflected in the space is an axis marker acting as a compass to orientate and prompt contemplation of an interconnected world.
About the Artist
Rebecca Ross’ practice navigates the junctures of site, situation and sensation. Her work, which she describes as ‘exercises in mapping’, combines found maps and video, text, photography, collage, mixed media and installation. In 2012 Rebecca was awarded the Australia Council studio at the British School at Rome in Italy to research the Vatican’s Gallery of Maps. She has exhibited at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C., U.S.A., British School at Rome, Italy, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Sunshine Coast University Art Gallery, International Symposium of Electronic Art 2024 and Festival 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
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