From 12 April to 18 August 2019 the National Gallery of Victoria will present Rosslynd Piggott: I sense you but I cannot see you, which charts contemporary Australian artist Rosslynd Piggott’s remarkable oeuvre created over almost four decades, including new works never before seen in Australia.

The major survey exhibition is presented twenty-one years after her first survey, Rosslynd Piggott: Suspended Breath, also held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1998.

More than 100 artworks are presented in the exhibition, linked by ideas that have sustained Piggott from the beginning of her career, including dream states and Surrealism, synesthesia and sensory perception, the beauty of the natural world and the poetics of space and place.

Works span a diverse range of mediums including paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations, and the survey reveals the ease with which Piggott moves seamlessly across diverse materials to evoke multi-sensorial phenomena.

Never before exhibited in Australia, the exhibition features an exquisite group of engraved Murano glass sculptures that Piggott made in collaboration with artisans on Murano Island, Venice.

Image Caption: Rosslynd Piggott, Nature-morte eggs 1 1990–91, oil on canvas, 107.3 x 137.0 cm © The artist Photo: courtesy the artist.