Rosanna Blacket's artistic practice developed rapidly after a long career in architecture and then a retraining in Fine Arts when she completed a B. Fine Arts at the VCA. This dual training has a marked influence on her sculptural works which include expanded practice in spatial language and constructional techniques.
The work explores the specifics of location with particular reference to the environment. It does this initially by following a material process that uses collecting as a means of gathering content. This includes reference materials as well as physical things. It builds both the action and the ritual of observation of place into the work and balances this with the wisdom of others. Materials gathered address the ethical considerations of resource depletion, within a framework of urban landscape regeneration. These gleanings are brought into the studio, their traces of Place are polished and highlighted and slowly emerges works which whisper of the sea, glimmer with the passing traffic and sigh with the shea-oaks.
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
Education:
B.FinArts. 2019 (VCA, University of Melbourne)
B.Arch.(Hons) (University of Melbourne)
M.Arch. (By Design Research) (University of Melbourne)
Prizes:
Awarded the 2019 Majilis Encouragement Award. VCA, Melbourne.
Awarded the Kaufman Scholarship 1993, University of Melbourne
The Edward and Penelope Billson Prize for Architectural Design, 1986 University of Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions:
2025 - Willaura Modern, Willaura. The Shea Oaks Whisper at the Courthouse
2024 – Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford. The Shea Oaks Whisper.
2024 – 26 Advantage, Highett. The Hide
2022 – 26 Advantage, Highett. TeenyWeeny.
Group Exhibitions:
2025. Willaura Modern, Willaura, Grampiana. Work Exhibited - Denise, Wilhelmina.
2024 The Art Room, Footscray, Be Longing, Work Exhibited – Sarah and the Swan, Stella, Ethel, Dorothea.
2023 MILK Gallery, Collingwood, The Final Drop, Work Exhibited-.Settle Down
2021 George Paton Gallery, Carlton, Re-Scene Unseen. Work Exhibited- The Creek
2020 George Paton Gallery Website, SceneUn, Video
2020 George Paton Gallery, Carlton, Scene Unseen, Work Exhibited- The Creek
2020 George Paton Gallery, Carlton, Silences Between the Ticks of the Clock. Work exhibited – ShoreDrift and ShoreBreak.
2019 VCA Graduation Show, Southbank. Work exhibited – ShoreDrift, ShoreBreak, and ShoreLine.
2019 VCA Art Space, Southbank S/cens/us, Work exhibited- The Corellas, Sound installation.
2018 VCA Art Space, Southbank Afterthoughts. Work exhibited-Pianola, Multiscreen installation with sound and projection. Hand cut pianola roll
2017 VCA Art Space, Southbank, I’d Like To Call It. Work exhibited- Cutie- Timber, tambourine, coat hanger, steel
2006 Homer Faber, Melbourne Museum
2004 3O/4U Architectural Exhibition 2004, held at the Bread Box, Northbridge Perth, October 2004.
2000 Big Journey, Small Buildings: inhabiting a drawn out landscape. Held at Habitus 2000 – A Sense of Place Conference, Sheraton Hotel, Perth and at John Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth.
Articles and catalogue inclusions:
“Grampiana’ Remembering What was Lost”, The Ararat Advocate, 4 April 2025.
“Art Show Grief of a ‘Lost Landscape”, The Weekly Advertiser, Stawell, 9 April 2025.
“Recovery Through Creativity”, The Hamilton Spectator, April 2025.
Halliday, Karl. “Silences Between the Ticks of the Clock: Absence and Erasure in an Age of Cultural Palimpsest”, George Paton Gallery. Exhibition Catalogue essay. Feb 2020.Accessed September 26, 2023.https://issuu.com/mattlsiddall/docs/_silences_between_ticks_of_a_clock__catalogue
“Silences Between the Ticks of the Clock: Absence and Erasure in an Age of Cultural Palimpsest”, George Paton Gallery. February 2020. Accessed September 26, 2023. https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/pageassets/express-yourself/gallery/archive/1-silence-between-ticks-of-a-clock-February-2020.pdf
“Scene Unseen”. George Paton Gallery. March 2020. Accessed September 26, 2023
“Scene-Un_RBlacket”. George Paton Gallery Virtual. December 2020. Accessed September 26, 2023
“ReScene Unseen”. George Paton Gallery. March 2021. Accessed September 26, 2023
