Up close with Rosslynd Piggott
About Rosslynd Piggott
Born 1958 in Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
Rosslynd Piggott creates exquisite objects, paintings and multimedia installations, often employing skilled crafts practitioners to complement her own mastery of
materials, light and shadow. Shelter (2006–10) occupies one of the oldest houses on Cockatoo Island. In this work, Piggott has responded to the island’s layered history to create a flowing series of spaces and images intended to transform the site’s dark residue of remembered experience. New and mysterious elements are introduced to alter the once domestic rooms, and the viewer’s experience of them: cubes of mirrored glass and black lacquer; footage of the sea; air that gathered under old blossom trees lining the moat of the Tokyo Imperial Palace after a thunderstorm; and photos taken of the damaged door of a general’s office in Tokyo, significant as the site where writer Yukio Mishima put himself to death by seppuku (ritual suicide). This work is both a conciliation and acknowledgement of the spirits who have lived there.