The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Rosslynd Piggott

"Nature in black was made during a period of particularly profound sorrow in my life. The process of pulling threads from a four-metre-long black obi was the only place I could put my grief … Like a meditation, the process was methodical, no-mind, calming, but also like a sad and silent song."

Rosslynd PIGGOTT
born Australia 1958
Nature in black (2001)
silk obi, wood, transparent synthetic polymer resin
200.0 x 170.0 x 150.0 cm
Nature in black 1–3 (detail shown) (2001)
photographs
three of 60.0 x 50.0 cm (unframed)
Face in the earth (2000)
artificial hair, palladium leaf, oil, paint on linen
750.0 x 500.0 cm
Blossom (2002–03)
fabric, wood, transparent synthetic polymer resin, silver, pearls
(variable)