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Joan Ross
Joan Ross born in Glasgow, Scotland lives in Australia as an artist, across a range of media that include drawing, painting, installation, photography, sculpture, video and virtual reality. Her practice uses irony, humour and metaphor to re-examine Australia's history, identity and memory.

Early Life and Education
She is an alumna of UNSW Art & Design, and where she has also worked as a lecturer.

2012 Masters of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

1985 Bachelor of Visual Art, City Art Institute, (COFA),UNSW

Exhibitions
Her solo exhibitions include TAKETAKETAKE Bett Gallery, Hobart (2016), 20–50% off all plants and animals, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba (2015); I made this for you, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney (2015); You can't just take everything, Turner Gallery, Perth (2014); Touching other people’s shopping, Bett Gallery, Hobart (2013); The claiming of things, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2012); Joan Ross: Enter at your own risk, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2010); Come a little closer, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2008) and The knitted brow, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2007).

Selected group exhibitions include Antipodean Inquiry, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore (2016); Streetwise: Contemporary Print Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2015); Colonial Afterlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart (2015); South, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea (2014); Australian Voices, Fine Art Society Contemporary, London (2013); Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2012); Lycett and Ross, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown (2011); Curious Colony: A twenty first century Wunderkammer, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle (2010); I’m worst at what I do best, Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney (2009); Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney (2008); 2007: The Year in Art, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2007).

In 2016 Ross participatedJoan Ross indulges in tongue in cheek humour with her new-media video works to challenge notions of Australia and its colonial history

Her experimental animations, such as The claiming of things (2012), Touching other people's butterflies (2013) and Colonial Grab (2014), combine colonial iconography and landscape painting with collaged elements of western commodity culture connected to land tenure and Aboriginal peoples' active presence on the land.

The use of fluorescent yellow and high-visibility clothing in Ross’ work symbolises colonisation and fear. Her act of depicting people in this bright clothing and placing fluorescent objects in the landscape does more, however, than simply illustrate colonisation; it also highlights and exaggerates the foreign or alien aspects of her work and its association with the landscape and the cultural and spiritual connection to place.

Ross is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; Parliament House; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales; and the City of Sydney as well as strong representation throughout multiple regional galleries and museums.