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 News
Finalist Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2024 (collaboration with Pablo Grover)
Finalist Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2024
Clean Up Australia Day 2024 an incredible community effort!
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
Links
Broadsheet Audi Campaign The Snaking, Coral-like Art being Made From Your Discarded Trash
Cercle hassle free reusable cup of the future
Environmental Investigation Agency (UK)
Kitncaboodle.com.au Releasable, reusable and flexible cable tie
Plastic Free Seaa (Insta) Plastic Free with Sarah Rhodes
Rapstrap Treloar Roses Releasable, reusable and flexible cable tie
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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.