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, detail, Sculpture by the Sea 2016, Grace, located at Tamarama Beach. Photo: Andrew Worssam @andrewworssam
detail of work 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.
SLOT Window Gleaning for plastics, on the beach and beyond, 16 April - 20 May, 2023 Photo credit: Tony Twigg
© Rox De Luca 2024