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Since the early 2010s De Luca's practice has focused on the concepts of abundance, excess and waste,<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Luca |first=Rox De |date=2016-02-13 |title=Abundance, Excess, Waste |url=https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/4793 |journal=PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |doi=10.5130/portal.v13i1.4793 |issn=1449-2490}}</ref> and involves collecting kilos of plastic waste debris from the shores of local beaches such as [[Bondi Beach]] or [[Rose Bay, New South Wales|Rose Bay]] in Sydney.<ref name="theculturetrip.com"/> Her practice is guided primarily by colour.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Millner |first=Jacqueline |title=SAVED |publisher=James Dohary Project Space |year=2012 |location=Sydney}}</ref> At her studio the plastics are sorted and threaded using strings of wire into sculpture works that speaks to consumption, abundance, [[plastic pollution]] and waste.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lei |first=Celina |date=9 November 2021 |title=Artists giving materials a new life |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/artists-giving-materials-a-new-life-2512531/ |access-date=13 April 2024 |website=Arts Hub}}</ref> She was inspired by a talk given by Dr Jennifer Lavers of Adrift Lab about the effect of plastic in the oceans on marine life.<ref name="theculturetrip.com"/> |
Since the early 2010s De Luca's practice has focused on the concepts of abundance, excess and waste,<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Luca |first=Rox De |date=2016-02-13 |title=Abundance, Excess, Waste |url=https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/4793 |journal=PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |doi=10.5130/portal.v13i1.4793 |issn=1449-2490}}</ref> and involves collecting kilos of plastic waste debris from the shores of local beaches such as [[Bondi Beach]] or [[Rose Bay, New South Wales|Rose Bay]] in Sydney.<ref name="theculturetrip.com"/> Her practice is guided primarily by colour.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Millner |first=Jacqueline |title=SAVED |publisher=James Dohary Project Space |year=2012 |location=Sydney}}</ref> At her studio the plastics are sorted and threaded using strings of wire into sculpture works that speaks to consumption, abundance, [[plastic pollution]] and waste.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lei |first=Celina |date=9 November 2021 |title=Artists giving materials a new life |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/artists-giving-materials-a-new-life-2512531/ |access-date=13 April 2024 |website=Arts Hub}}</ref> She was inspired by a talk given by Dr Jennifer Lavers of Adrift Lab about the effect of plastic in the oceans on marine life.<ref name="theculturetrip.com"/> |
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In their 2022 book ''Contemporary Art and Feminism'', Jacqueline Millner and [[Catriona Moore]] say of De Luca's practice:<blockquote>Recyling as play-power, problem-identification, creative method and readymade material also drives Sydney-based artist Rox de Luca to string subtle, colourcoded plastic waste which she collects on her daily beach walks into beautiful sculptural forms that spill and loop across gallery walls and floors. Whether worn, draped, suspended or inhabited, they reprise the cheap, industrial materials proclaimed by Soviet Constructivist corner-reliefs during a more utopian period of design history. This haptic return of the repressed within the heterotopic space of the gallery extends righteous anger about our throwaway culture and our concern with the ethics of living sustainably.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Millner |first1=Jacqueline |title=Contemporary art and feminism |last2=Moore |first2=Catriona |publisher=Routledge |year=2022 |location=New York |pages=193}}</ref></blockquote>De Luca's earlier practice was influenced by her migrant background.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brennan |first=Anne |date=1 December 1997 |title=Beyond reason: Jo Darbyshire and Rox De Luca |journal=Eyeline |volume=35 |pages=22–24}}</ref> She investigated histories of migration and the cross-cultural impact of everyday objects like kitchen implements and personal items such as a collection of Italian needlework patterns her mother gave to her.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Accarigi |first=Vanni |year=2016 |title=The Transcultural Edge |url=https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/45398/2/The%20Transcultural%20Edge.pdf |journal=PORTAL |volume=13 |issue=1}}</ref> In August 2001 De Luca's work was part of a group exhibition |
In their 2022 book ''Contemporary Art and Feminism'', Jacqueline Millner and [[Catriona Moore]] say of De Luca's practice:<blockquote>Recyling as play-power, problem-identification, creative method and readymade material also drives Sydney-based artist Rox de Luca to string subtle, colourcoded plastic waste which she collects on her daily beach walks into beautiful sculptural forms that spill and loop across gallery walls and floors. Whether worn, draped, suspended or inhabited, they reprise the cheap, industrial materials proclaimed by Soviet Constructivist corner-reliefs during a more utopian period of design history. This haptic return of the repressed within the heterotopic space of the gallery extends righteous anger about our throwaway culture and our concern with the ethics of living sustainably.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Millner |first1=Jacqueline |title=Contemporary art and feminism |last2=Moore |first2=Catriona |publisher=Routledge |year=2022 |location=New York |pages=193}}</ref></blockquote>De Luca's earlier practice was influenced by her migrant background.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brennan |first=Anne |date=1 December 1997 |title=Beyond reason: Jo Darbyshire and Rox De Luca |journal=Eyeline |volume=35 |pages=22–24}}</ref> She investigated histories of migration and the cross-cultural impact of everyday objects like kitchen implements and personal items such as a collection of Italian needlework patterns her mother gave to her.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Accarigi |first=Vanni |year=2016 |title=The Transcultural Edge |url=https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/45398/2/The%20Transcultural%20Edge.pdf |journal=PORTAL |volume=13 |issue=1}}</ref> In August 2001 De Luca's work was part of a group exhibition of textile artworks by female Italian migrants to Australia, held at the [[Australian National Maritime Museum|Australian Maritime Museum]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Jo |date=15 August 2001 |title=Sewing the seas |work=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |pages=47}}</ref> |
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Prior to working with plastic waste, De Luca painted portraits.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allatson |first=Paul |date=1996 |title=Men and Mettle |journal=Artlink |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=24–26}}</ref> |
Prior to working with plastic waste, De Luca painted portraits.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allatson |first=Paul |date=1996 |title=Men and Mettle |journal=Artlink |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=24–26}}</ref> |
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Rox De Luca (born 1963) is an Australian visual artist who makes sculptural objects and installations predominantly from found plastics.[1] She lives on Gadigal Land, in Bondi NSW. Since the mid-1980s De Luca has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally.[2]
Personal life
De Luca's parents came to Australia from Italy.[3] She has three sisters.[3] Her mother, Anna De Luca was an artist and has work in the National Gallery of Australia collection.[4]
De Luca has a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) from Canberra School of Art/ANU (1985) and a Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration, University of NSW (1988).[5] At the Canberra School of Art De Luca's peers included Stephanie Radok, Tony Ayres, Jennifer Higgie and EX de Medici.
Practice
Since the early 2010s De Luca's practice has focused on the concepts of abundance, excess and waste,[6] and involves collecting kilos of plastic waste debris from the shores of local beaches such as Bondi Beach or Rose Bay in Sydney.[3] Her practice is guided primarily by colour.[7] At her studio the plastics are sorted and threaded using strings of wire into sculpture works that speaks to consumption, abundance, plastic pollution and waste.[8] She was inspired by a talk given by Dr Jennifer Lavers of Adrift Lab about the effect of plastic in the oceans on marine life.[3]
In their 2022 book Contemporary Art and Feminism, Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore say of De Luca's practice:
Recyling as play-power, problem-identification, creative method and readymade material also drives Sydney-based artist Rox de Luca to string subtle, colourcoded plastic waste which she collects on her daily beach walks into beautiful sculptural forms that spill and loop across gallery walls and floors. Whether worn, draped, suspended or inhabited, they reprise the cheap, industrial materials proclaimed by Soviet Constructivist corner-reliefs during a more utopian period of design history. This haptic return of the repressed within the heterotopic space of the gallery extends righteous anger about our throwaway culture and our concern with the ethics of living sustainably.[9]
De Luca's earlier practice was influenced by her migrant background.[10] She investigated histories of migration and the cross-cultural impact of everyday objects like kitchen implements and personal items such as a collection of Italian needlework patterns her mother gave to her.[11] In August 2001 De Luca's work was part of a group exhibition of textile artworks by female Italian migrants to Australia, held at the Australian Maritime Museum.[12]
Prior to working with plastic waste, De Luca painted portraits.[13]
Work
In 2024 De Luca was the inaugural artist in residence at Orlebar Brown.[14]
In 2022 De Luca contributed work to the artist's collective Project Vortex - Intercepting the Plastic Waste Stream.[15]
De Luca has been a finalist in a number of art prizes including the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award in 2018,[16] and the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize in 2017.[17] She was on the judging panel of the City of Ryde Sustainable Waste to Art Prize in 2020.[18]
Residencies
De Luca has received multiple artist-in-residence opportunities including in 2022 at the Gunyah Residency Program, NSW,[5] and at the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, NSW.[19] In 2019 De Luca was artist-in-residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre.[5]
Solo exhibitions[2]
- 2023 - Slot Gallery, Redfern
- 2021 - Chutespace, Canberra
- 2019 - Gleaning for plastic, on the beach, Art+Climate= Change, Loop, Melbourne
- 2016 - Gleaning for plastic, on the beach, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
- 2013 - Sculpture by the sea, Sydney[20]
- 2012 - Saved, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney[6]
- 2006/8 - Studio Exhibitions, Sydney and Madrid
- 2001 - Parla, memoria, Legge Gallery, Sydney
- 1998 - Madre e Figlia, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Selected group exhibitions[2]
- 2024 - Colour is enough, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, forthcoming Beauty Runs the Gauntlet, Bondi Pavilion Gallery
- 2023 - Plastic: Unwrapping the World, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
- 2022 - Plastic-free Biennale Kandos, collaboration with Plastic Free Biennale, (Lucas Ihlein, Kim Williams, First Nations Sister GlitterNullius), Wayout, Kandos, NSW
- 2022 - Material Girl, China Cultural Centre, Sydney, Curated by Nicholas Tsoutsas Omnivores, Duckrabbit, Redfern
- 2021 - Hundreds and Thousands, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
- 2021 - On REvolution, Gallery Central, North Metro TAFE, Perth
- 2020 - Contour 556, Curated by Neil Hobbs, Canberra
- 2019 - The Art for the Wilderness, Queen Street Galleries, Woollahra, Sydney
- 2018 - Sentient Visibility, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
- 2001 - Stitches - Fare Il Punto, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney[12]
- 1999 - Family Ties, 24HR Art, Darwin
Collections
- Artbank, Australia[2]
- Deakin University Art Gallery Collection, Victoria[21]
- Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
- New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
- Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia
- University of Sydney Union, NSW
- Private collections Australia, Europe and USA.[2]
References
- ^ Allatson, Paul (2020). "Rox De Luca: Gleaning for plastics, defying wastefulness" (PDF). Rox De Luca. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "CV". www.roxdeluca.com. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ a b c d "Sea Of Plastic: An Artists Quest To Address Ocean Pollution". Culture Trip. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ "Anna De Luca". National Gallery of Australia. 15 April 1999. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ a b c "Gunyah artist-in-residence program". gunyah.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ a b Luca, Rox De (2016-02-13). "Abundance, Excess, Waste". PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. 13 (1). doi:10.5130/portal.v13i1.4793. ISSN 1449-2490.
- ^ Millner, Jacqueline (2012). SAVED. Sydney: James Dohary Project Space.
- ^ Lei, Celina (9 November 2021). "Artists giving materials a new life". Arts Hub. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Millner, Jacqueline; Moore, Catriona (2022). Contemporary art and feminism. New York: Routledge. p. 193.
- ^ Brennan, Anne (1 December 1997). "Beyond reason: Jo Darbyshire and Rox De Luca". Eyeline. 35: 22–24.
- ^ Accarigi, Vanni (2016). "The Transcultural Edge" (PDF). PORTAL. 13 (1).
- ^ a b Rogers, Jo (15 August 2001). "Sewing the seas". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). p. 47.
- ^ Allatson, Paul (1996). "Men and Mettle". Artlink. 16 (1): 24–26.
- ^ "Elegantly Wasted". GQ. pp. 9/10. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Project Vortex". Project Vortex. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ "Review: Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2018". www.artshub.com.au. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "The Inaugural Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize – Finalists Announced". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "Turning waste into art is a community affair". www.artshub.com.au. 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "Rox de Luca". www.woollahragallery.com.au. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ McDonald, Shae (29 October 2013). "Plastic turns fantastic art". Southern Courier. p. 13.
- ^ Deakin University Art Collection. "Deakin University Art Collection" (PDF). Deakin University. Retrieved 13 April 2024.