ABOUT REBECCA
Rebecca Ross is a visual artist based on Kombumerri Country, on Queensland’s Southern Gold Coast, whose practice navigates the junctures of site, situation and sensation. Her studio in Tugun situates contemporary art practice in the setting of a quintessential 1960’s fibro shack and in close proximity to her muse the Coral Sea. Her work, which she describes as ‘exercises in mapping’, combines found maps and video, text, photography, collage, mixed media and installation. Rebecca completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1998 and a Masters of Fine Art in 2005, at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and moved back to the Gold Coast in 2013 where she founded The Walls, a nationally recognised artist-run space that she directed until 2021. Her contribution to the creative arts on the Gold Coast was acknowledged with an International Women’s Day Leadership Award in 2020. Her current projects include curatorial collaboration 2PP (Two Party Preferred) with Bradley Vincent and surfing with the Artist Boardriders Club.
Rebecca has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Rome Studio at the British School at Rome by the Australia Council for the Arts where she researched the Galleria delle carte geografiche (Gallery of Maps) located in Vatican City, an Arts Queensland Career Development Grant to exhibit in and travel to the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C. U.S.A for Lie of the Land: New Australian Landscapes curated by Alex J. Taylor, and the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists' Fellowship which supported her to undertake an eight week residency in Valletta and Gozo, Malta. She has been awarded grants to undertake site-based residencies and research in Italy (Venice, Milan), United States of America (New York, Los Angeles, Miami) and New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland). Her work has been exhibited at the University Sunshine Coast Gallery, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Museum of Brisbane, HOTA Home of the Arts Gallery, Metro Arts, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and at Festival 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
Rebecca has completed permanent public artworks at the Northern Busway Tunnel and Robina Health Precinct, as well as temporary commissions at the Royal Brisbane Womens’ Hospital Busway and Metricon (now People First) Stadium. Her work is held in the collections of HOTA Home of the Arts Gallery, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Museum of Brisbane, Gold Coast University Hospital, Mater Private Hospital and in private collections in Australia, New Zealand & Italy.