Rosslynd Piggott: Suspended Breath

Rosslynd Piggott’s recent work is at the forefront of the expanded range of media, practices and collaborations with which contemporary artists are engaged. Since achieving critical acclaim as a painter in the 1980s, Piggott has focused in the 1990s on the nexus between painting, sculpture and the mutable installation format. Today she is acknowledged as one the leading artists of her generation.

Suspended breath comprises a selection of objects and installations produced over the past eight years. The exhibition has been conceived as a visual and conceptual journey through the disparate interests that inform Piggott’s recent projects. Originating in a contemplative and associational vision, Piggott’s objects and environments seek to engage the essential human emotions – desire, memory, anxiety, longing. Her refined aesthetic and poetic sensibility combine an acute attention to detail and an innate sense for the inherent material properties and intangible metaphorical potential of the things around us.

Sourced from: Rosslynd Piggott: suspended breath. National Gallery of Victoria, 1998.