Rebecca Ross
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Founder
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Rebecca Ross is a visual artist based on Kombumerri Country (Queensland’s Southern Gold Coast) whose practice navigates the junctures of site, situation and sensation. Her work, which she describes as ‘exercises in mapping’, combines found maps and video, text, photography, collage, mixed media and installation. Her most recent work is concerned with the creation of conceptual maps that traverse geopolitical concerns and notions of transcendence in airspace, ocean space and terrestrial zones. Rebecca’s expanded mapping practice includes recreational planespotting and surfing. She is an active part of the international ADB-S flight tracking network and a founder and member of the Artist Boardriders Club.
Since graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a Masters of Fine Art in 2005, Rebecca has exhibited at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C. U.S.A., British School at Rome in Italy, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Museum of Brisbane, HOTA Home of the Arts, Metro Arts, Outer Space, Bleach Festival and Festival 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. In 2012 Rebecca was awarded the Rome Studio at the British School at Rome by the Australia Council for the Arts to research the Galleria delle carte geografiche (Gallery of Maps) located in Vatican City. Rebecca has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artists’ Fellowship in 2004, which have supported her to travel to Malta (Gozo, Valletta), Italy (Venice, Milan), United States of America (New York, Los Angeles, Miami) and New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland) to undertake site-based residencies and research.
In 2013 she returned to the Gold Coast where she founded The Walls, a nationally recognised artist-run space that she directed until 2021.
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Rebecca Ross is a visiting faculty member at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and a Research Scientist at the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. Her work focuses on infrastructure for public participation in data and media, and spatial information in particular.
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Last Known Location:
- United States of America
