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THE HELEN MACPHERSON SMITHCOMMISSION (HMSC)Rosslynd PiggottExtract: in 3 partsCommissioning Curator:Juliana EngbergCoordinating Curator:Rebecca CoatesAustralian Centre for Contemporary ArtTHE HELEN MACPHERSON SMITH COMMISSION 20082 August 2008 - 21 September 2008Art Gallery of BallaratSaturday 22 August –Monday 28 September 2009Artist Rosslynd Piggott at her studio in Fitzroy.Photo: Rodger CumminsBIOGRAPHYBorn Melbourne, Victoria, 1958.Currently lives & works in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Rosslynd Piggott’s work has received wide acclaim, both nationally and internationally. Since exhibiting for the first timein 1981, Piggott has maintained a very prolific practice, focusing on 3-dimensional works, painting and drawing. Piggott’spractice in installation, video, sculpture and painting has evolved over the past 28 years to reveal sensitive and delicateresponses to natural and domestic environments. The influence of Japanese culture is vivid in both the physical elementsof her work as well as through the arrangement and placement of objects in gallery spaces.In 2008, Rosslynd Piggott was invited to create a major new work for the fourth Helen Macpherson Smith Commission atthe Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Piggott is the fourth recipient of the Helen Macpherson Smith Commission,a partnership between ACCA and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust that offers Victorian artists the opportunity to createan ambitious new work of art. For the work, Piggott used film, painting and sculpture, continuing her ongoing explorationof the micro-world of nature, the elements and life itself. In a departure from the usual format of the Commission, Piggottchose to work across ACCA’s three smaller gallery spaces, rather than the Commission Hall.Rosslynd Piggott is represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Milani Gallery, Brisbane and Gallery 360 Degrees in Tokyo.All images courtesy the artist, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Milani Gallery, Brisbane and Gallery 360 Degrees in Tokyo.Further informationThe Rosslynd Piggott exhibition catalogue is now available for sale from ACCA’s bookshop or can be ordered online at www.accaonline.org.auFront cover:Rosslynd PiggottExtract: in 3 parts, 2008Australian Centre for Contemporary Artdetailacca education01