Roxy Richens

Statement

I am an emerging visual artist working across drawing, performance video, costume and visual styling. My multidisciplinary practice is unified by theatricality, mise en scène, sexual innuendo, film history and pop culture references to illustrate themes of delusion, death, celebrity and idol worship.

My practice often explores the blurred realms that emerge when transitioning between defined worlds and the collision of opposing elements. The most dominant being the unsettling space between reality and fiction and the playfulness between high brow and low brow art.

GlogauAIR Project

I aim to expand my existing drawing practice into more ambitious installation through the creation of a theatrical narrative exploring scientific proposals to colonise Venus’ atmosphere for human habitation. This project would reference both romanticised sci-fi visions of Venus as a tropical paradise contrasted with current scientific knowledge of the harsh reality of Venus that is mostly incongruent with human existence. I’m interested in the discomfort that occupies the space between the fantastical curiosity for journeying to another planet and the continual degradation of Earth that makes interplanetary colonisation a necessary consideration.

CV Summary

EDUCATION

• 2017: Advanced Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
• 2012: Graduate Diploma, Museum Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne
• 2009: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), Monash University, Melbourne

GROUP SHOWS

• 2017: Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition, Besser Space, Collingwood
• 2009: Monash University Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield

STUDIO

• 2018 – 2021: Artery Cooperative, Northcote

EMPLOYMENT

• 2015 – 2021: Art Collection Officer, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
• 2016: Exhibition Project Assistant, Kylie on Stage, Arts Centre Melbourne
• 2015: Registrar (contractor), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• 2013 – 2015: Assistant Registrar, Arts Centre Melbourne
• 2013 – 2015: Art Collection Officer, Deakin University Art Collection and Galleries

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