REBECCA ROSS
Rebecca Ross is an artist and Director of The Walls Art Space. Since completing a Master of Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology (2005) she has undertaken major solo and curatorial projects for Festival 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and Bleach Festival, and participated in international artist in residence programs in Malta, Italy and New Zealand. Rebecca's work is concerned with mapping the junctures of site, situation and sensation and she has exhibited at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C. U.S.A. (2012), been awarded the Rome Studio at the British School at Rome by the Australia Council for the Arts (2013) and supported by the City of Gold Coast to undertake a mentorship and travel to Los Angeles and Miami, U.S.A. (2014).
Rebecca has been actively involved in the contemporary art scene in South East Queensland since the millennium and for the past eight years on the Gold Coast where she has consulted on an array of cultural development activities as well as acting as head judge of Swell (2018). Her contribution to the Gold Coast arts ecology has been recognised with an International Women’s Day Leadership Award (2020).