Artist in Resident Rox De Luca
ORLEBAR BROWN 5 Martin Place Sydney
British menswear brand Orlebar Brown (OB) celebrates its first global "Artist in Residence" program in Sydney, Australia, and unveils inaugural artwork by environmental artist Rox De Luca.
Gleaning, on the beach, and beyond, is a vibrant installation suspended across the atrium of the store, evoking a sense of discovery and wonder.
The installation of the work commemorates the first anniversary of Orlebar Brown's flagship boutique opening in Martin Place.
Thanks to the following who made this possible: Orlebar Brown, Together Club, Caroline Comino, Ben Muir, Rodney Berry, Pablo and Billy De Luca.
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Gleaning for plastics, defying wastefulness
"Most days Sydney-based artist Rox De Luca gleans along her local beach, Bondi, or a little further away at Rose Bay Beach. She is looking for flashes of colour and of whiteness against the sand, the signs that the beach—like every beach on the planet—is adjusting fragment by fragment to the deluge of plastic waste that our species generates daily. She collects the weather-worn fragments from the sand, and she takes them home to clean and to categorize by size, colour and shape. Then her defiant transformations occur". Gleaning for plastics, defying wastefulness by Paul Allatson © 2020 Above image: Green bundle, photo Ian Hobbs Media
Previously ‘Beauty Runs the Gauntlet’, a group show, of female artists residing in the Waverley municipality, at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery.
Photo credits: Waverley Council and Silversalt Photography. Above image features left wall: Marisa Purcell and right wall Zorica Purlija
Above, various garlands, China Cultural Centre, image by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 2022
Above, detail, Sculpture by the Sea 2016, Grace, located at Tamarama Beach. Photo: Andrew Worssam @andrewworssam
Above and below, various details of works Photo: the artist
Recent projects
Above Deep Water, Sydney Art Quartet, August 2023. Photo credit: Oliver Miller. Installation of various colourful found-plastics garlands, rear wall.
White Garland/Love on the Swash Line – Rox De Luca and Erin Shiel in collaboration for Love Lines at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery. Erin's poem Love on the Swash Line responded to Rox’s work both in form and content, with the shape of the poem following the shape of White Garland and the content reflected in a sestina about the impact of plastics on the environment and on humans. Rox and Erin spent time gleaning for plastics together, sharing updates on the sculpture and the poem then writing the key words of the sestina on the White Garland.
Love at the swash line
My youngest child is dancing
with the happiness of being awake.
His warm limbs clamber on me
as he sucks on a bottle of milk.
Click to access full poem.
Above, photo credit: Jacquie Manning
SLOT Window Gleaning for plastics, on the beach and beyond, 16 April - 20 May, 2023 Photo credit: Tony Twigg
Wagga Wagga Plastic: Unwrapping the World
Plastic touches everything, it is the most ubiquitous and mundane material and also a major environmental problem. Using artworks from Cath Barcan, Sarah Goffman, Rox De Luca and Blake Griffiths, this exhibition explores Plastic’s complex material and political provocations, challenging audiences to move beyond guilt and unwrap plastic from our world.
Co-curated by Lee-Anne Hall, Director, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery with Professor Gay Hawkins, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University.
Broadsheet Audi Campaign launched 14 February, 2023
Artist in Residence at Woollahra Redleaf
Artist in Residence at Woollahra Redleaf 2023.
Above: Photo: Sahlan Hayes. Woollahra Municipal Council Percival Parklet in Rose Bay Pop-Up CREATIVE GARLAND WORKSHOP, March 2023.
Finalist Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2022
Westfield Hurstville Sea-Stainable campaign: Artworks & Community Workshops, August 2022 collaboration with The Event Space.
Above: White garland for Sea-Stainable Hurstville Westfield campaign, 2022.
Above: Adorning the Whale for Sea-Stainable Hurstville Westfield campaign, 2022, Photo: Greg Fonne
Above: Window installation of garlands for Sea-Stainable Hurstville Westfield campaign, 2022.
Cross Art Projects In conversation with RISE 2: Considerations of saltwater, fish, mangroves & people, oil & plastic and to coincide with Plastic Free July, 2022.
Above: Pink orange garland, 2022 at The Cross Art Projects
In conversation with RISE 2: Considerations of saltwater, fish, mangroves & people, oil & plastic and to coincide with Plastic Free July, 2022.
PLASTIC FREE July in the Chifley Tower foyer. Thanks to Plump&spry, Chifley and Plastic Free July®
This project was funded by the NSW Government. Thanks to Lucas Ihlein, Kim Williams and Juundaal Strang-Yettica (aka Sister GlitterNullius). Installation photos :Alex Wisser
Above, Plastic-free Kandos workshop responses, 12 June, 2022
Above, Plastic-free Kandos installation view, photo: Alex Wisser, 2022
Wayout, Kandos, NSW
Above, site specific installation Gleaning for plastics, from the beach and beyond, 2022 from the exhibition Material Girl at the China Cultural Centre in Sydney, 31 March - 27 May, 2022
Artist in Residence with The Social Good Summit Australia 2022 at NIDA, Saturday 5 March.
Above, on the stage, various suspended garlands for the Social Good Summit, March 2022, below, a series of works in the Anzac Parade street window frontage.
Above, detail, Red/pink bundle, 2021
Hundreds and Thousands featured a selection of new commissioned works at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Tristeza roja, 2021, photo: rebeccamansell.com
Above, Blue green garland, 2021, Below, Red garlands, photo: rebeccamansell.com
Above, Three small bundles, photo: rebeccamansell.com
Above, The work above, A Lament for Wentworth, selected for the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize held at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 2021 Photo: Ian Hobbs Media
The Sisters of Perpetual Plastix with Tristeza roja (Red sadness), 2020, found plastics, wire, dimensions variable. Photo: Meryn Martin
Fiesta, 2021, found plastics, wire, dimensions variable. Private Collection. Photo: Penelope Gebhardt for Holding Ground
detail, Tristeza negra (Black sadness), 2020, found plastics, wire, dimensions variable. Photo: Ian Hobbs Media
Freya Schack-Arnott performing cello to music composed by Liz Jigalin in response to Red works in Still gleaning for plastics, on the beach, Articulate project space, 2020, for the film Clearway (Corona). Photo: Lliane Clarke, Voices of Women
Jessica Scott performing flute to music composed by Liz Jigalin in response to the work Drops (for Eva Hesse) Photo: Clare Hawley, side view of work below, photo credit: Ian Hobbs
detail, Blue bundle, 2020, found plastics, wire, dimensions variable. Photo: Ian Hobbs Media
detail, Bundle (Cassata), 2020, found plastics, wire, dimensions variable. Photo: Ian Hobbs Media
Above, detail, Black blue bundle, 2018, found plastics, wire, dimensions variable. Collection: Deakin University
Above image: Drops, (For Eva Hesse) 2018, dimensions variable, found plastics, wire. Photo: Ian Hobbs Media
Image: Detail, Blue, 2016, dimensions variable, found industrial plastics, wire. Photo: Ian Hobbs Media
Image: Detail, Garlands, Red, Yellow/black, Blue/Green, various dimensions, found plastics, wire. Photo credit: Silversalt.
Installation views. Photo: Silversalt Photography.
Above, Installation view, Below, detail, Airborne, 2016, industrial found plastic, wire. Photo: Silversalt Photography.
© Rox De Luca 2024