Sally Ross, Landscape (3 trees) 2018, oil on wood panel. 130 x 110cm
Sally Ross, Landscape (4 trees) 2018, oil on wood panel, 100 x 80cm
Sally Ross, Landscape (6 trees) 2018, oil on wood panel, 100 x 80cm
Sally Ross, Chemin/Path 2015, silk, wool and cotton tapestry, 116 x 93cm, Flanders Tapestries, Belgium
“In her forthcoming solo exhibition at Murray White Room in Melbourne from 16 November to 20 December 2018, Sally Ross will exhibit a series of new landscape paintings inspired by early Flemish painting. Ross says she hopes her paintings can connect us to a deeper sense of time than the relentless instantaneity of contemporary culture. “You can’t swipe left on a painting. There is a sense of time enduring within this slower medium,” says Ross. “I’m really interested in my work being a bridge between the past and the present. That’s one of the reasons I like to work with established genres such as landscape painting,” she says. “I’m in dialogue with antiquity, with history. I’m particularly passionate about 15th and 16th-century Flemish painting but I also love contemporary art and absorb as much of it as I can.”
Photos: Graham Baring. Images courtesy Murray White Room, Melbourne
