Rox De Luca

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Rox De Luca
Australian artist Rox De Luca at Artbank Sydney 01.jpg
Born1963
OccupationVisual artist

Rox De Luca (born 1963) is an Australian visual artist whose work examines environmental issues and sustainability through sculpture and public art, predominantly made from found plastics. [1] [2] Her work is held by multiple national and regional collections including Artbank, Deakin University Art Collection (Victoria), New England Regional Art Museum (New South Wales), and Edith Cowan University (Western Australia), and at Royal Perth Hospital (Western Australia) and University of Sydney Union (New South Wales).

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Art work and career

De Luca's early practice was influenced by her Italian migrant background. [3] 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, [4] and painted portraits. [5]

Since the early 2010s De Luca's work has focused on the concepts of abundance, excess and waste, [6] and the ethics of living sustainably. [7] Her studio practice involves collecting kilos of plastic waste debris from the shores of local beaches such as Bondi Beach or Rose Bay in Sydney, [8] guided primarily by colour. [9] At her studio the plastics are sorted and threaded using strings of wire into sculpture works that speak to consumption, abundance, plastic pollution and waste. [10] [8]

In 2022 De Luca contributed work to the artist's collective Project Vortex, an international collective of artists and creatives who work to address the problems of plastic pollution. [11]

De Luca has exhibited in museums and galleries in Australia and Europe including Museum of Sydney, [12] Australian National Maritime Museum, [13] Fremantle Arts Centre, Arts Project Australia, Canberra School of Art, Bondi Pavilion, China Cultural Centre Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Espacio Menosuno, Madrid.

Her work is represented in the archive of the Women's Art Register.

Awards, Prizes and Residencies

De Luca has been a finalist in a number of art prizes including the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award in 2018, [14] and again in 2024 [15] , the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2017), [16] and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre (2021), and won the GreenWay Art Prize, [17] Environmental Art and Design Prize (2021).

She was on the judging panel of the City of Ryde Sustainable Waste to Art Prize in 2020. [18]

De Luca has received multiple artist-in-residence opportunities including the City of Waverley (NSW) Artist Studios, and the inaugural artist in residence at Orlebar Brown [19] (2024), the Gunyah Residency Program, [20] the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, NSW [21] (2022) and the Fremantle Arts Centre [20] (2019).

Selected solo exhibitions [22]

Selected group exhibitions [22]

Collections

Publications

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. [38]

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