Rox De Luca is an artist based in Bondi working on unceded Gadigal land.
Her art practice converts found marine and industrial single-use plastics via jewellery-like processes in order to explore ideas of consumption and waste and our neglect of the environments around us.
2024 exhibitions, projects and opportunities
Previous projects
Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Cut N Polish Carriageworks
Slot Window Gleaning for plastics, on the beach and beyond, 16 April – 20 May, 2023
Plastic - Unwrapping the World, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 28 January - 30 April, 2023
Artist in Residence, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Dec 2022
RISE 2: Considerations of saltwater, fish, mangroves & people, oil & plastic / Conversations, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
Plastic-free Kandos, Wayout, Kandos, NSW, with Juundaal Strang-Yettica and Plastic-Free Biennale ABC Central West Radio Interview with Kim Williams at 2:37mins
Material Girl A Dialogue Between Chinese and Australian Women Artists, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
Social Good Summit Artist in Residence, NIDA, Sydney. Highlights on YouTube
Cementa Wayout Fundraising Auction, online
Omnivores, Duckrabbit, Redfern
Hundreds and Thousands, Fremantle Arts Centre, W.A.
Chutespace, ACT, Australia's smallest art gallery (measuring 18 x 40 x 26 cm)
Further reading
Material Girl, Catalogue, Curator Nicholas Tsoutas,China Cultural Centre, Sydney, 2022
Australia.People.com.cn
Contemporary Art and Feminism by Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore, 2021, pp.172, 193
Artists giving materials a new life by Celina Lei for ArtsHub, 2021
The Sisters of Perpetual Plastix in conversation with Rox De Luca with Sister Glitter Nullius and Sister Ninny Nurdles, 2020
Three Australian artists are using plastic waste to create beauty and inspire action for change by Alison Hill for Clean Up Australia, 2020
Sea of Plastic: An Artist's Quest to Address Ocean Pollution Courtesy The Culture Trip, words Saskia Tillers photography by © Alana Dimou, 2020
Links
Adrift Lab
Ausmap
Banish
Boomerang Bags
Broadsheet Audi Campaign The Snaking, Coral-like Art being Made From Your Discarded Trash
Clean Up Australia
Environmental Investigation Agency (UK)
Kitncaboodle.com.au Releasable, reusable and flexible cable tie
Lids for Kids
Our Sea of East Asia Network
Plastic Free July
Plastic Free Biennale
Project Vortex
Replated
Responsible Cafes
Rapstrap Treloar Roses Releasable, reusable and flexible cable tie
Seabin Project
Splash without the Trash
Take 3 for the Sea
Tangaroa Blue
Transition Bondi
© Rox De Luca 2024 © all images - contact Copyright Agency or as listed
The artist acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives her respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.