Rosalie Rigby
CREATIVE PRACTICE
Visual Arts
I am a visual artist working as a painter. I also work with printmaking and ceramics.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My current work is abstract painting. These are non-objective, relating more to concepts than subjects in the world. I use geometric forms and linear elements. My work is process based. The work is the work. In terms of technique, I use paint on canvas or board. I am interested in layering and eliciting an ambiguity in reading the painting. My current work started with reflections from a trip to Ireland. There I was fascinated by the archaeology and more “modern” history as shown by remaining structures and images / written languages. I looked at the burial mounds, round forts and burial chambers. From this came reflections on the past as still being in the present and the strength of people’s belief systems. Layering became a device to reflect this.
BIO
Solo exhibitions
2021 Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth
2019 Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
2017 Gallery 126, Armidale
2016 New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
2009 Doggett Street Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo
2007 Doggett Street Gallery, Brisbane
2001 New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
1998 Focus Gallery, Tamworth
Two-person & three-person exhibitions
2015 Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha
2014 Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha
2012 Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha
2009 GIG Gallery, Sydney
2006 Moree Gallery, Moree
2006 GIG Gallery, Sydney
2001 Moree Plains Regional Gallery, Moree
2000 Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
1996 New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale
Group exhibitions
2019 Gallery 126, Armidale
2019 Gallery 126, Armidale
CONTACT
0427 608 332
rosrigby@gmail.com