Anne Ross (Australian sculptor)
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Anne Ross (born 1959)[1] is an Australian sculptor, whose large fanciful bronze statues figure prominently in various public places.
She studied drawing in 1981, and a few years later enrolled at the Victoria College Prahran campus, majoring in sculpture, and graduated in 1991. She received a grant from the Australia Council in 1992 and samples of her work were included in the Moet & Chandon touring exhibition in 1994. As of 1999 she had a studio at Gasworks Arts Park in South Melbourne,[2] where her installation Not Without Chomley remains a popular exhibit.[3]
Works
[edit]Her public work includes The Resting Place (1999) in City of Kingston,[2] Dance of the Platypus (2001) in the City of Wyndham, On the Road Again (2011) in Lyons, ACT,[4] The Other Side of Midnight (2012) in Canberra,[5] Midnight (2015), at the University of Wollongong,[1] Summertime (2017) in the City of Bayside,[6] Taken Not Given (2018) in Melbourne[7]
Ross was also commissioned to create A is for Alexander B is for Bunyip C is for Canberra (2011),[8] a reference to the 1972 children's book The Monster that Ate Canberra by Michael Salmon, the inspiration for the ABC-TV children's series Alexander Bunyip's Billabong. The statue was installed adjacent the public library, Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory and "launched" by Jon Stanhope MLA on 13 April 2011. Within three years maintenance costing over $5,000 was deemed necessary.[9]
She contributed a much smaller bronze bunyip to the American Natural History Museum, New York City.
Gallery
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Alexander Bunyip, Gungahlin -
Plaque -
Summertime (2017) -
Plaque
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Anne ROSS". University of Wollongong Collection. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ a b "$80,000 sculpture at Southland". The Australian Jewish News. Vol. 65, no. 37. Victoria, Australia. 11 June 1999. p. 5 (What's on). Retrieved 25 November 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Robert Grogan. ""Sculpture in the Park"". Gasworks to Gasworks. p. 57.
- ^ "On the Road Again". 22 August 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "The Other Side of Midnight". artsACT. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Sculpture - patinated bronze, Anne Ross, Summertime, 2017". Victorian Collections. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Taken Not Given". City Collection. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "A is for Alexander B is for Bunyip C". artsACT. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Public Art Schemes Leave Costly Repair Bills". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 12 September 2023.