Rosie Weiss is a Melbourne / Mornington Peninsula-based artist and educator. As a young artist she won the Moët & Chandon Australian art Fellowship with a painting titled Lung, a reaction to the chemical fire on Coode Island the same year. In 1996 she completed a Masters of Painting at RMIT with Intimate Patterns, a body of work that examines human relationships with the natural world. Poetics of belonging, resilience, life cycles, and colonial impacts are some of the ongoing concerns in her work.

Weiss is drawn to plant fragments that she finds on the edges of human activity: pathways, playgrounds, city streets, logging tracks, farms, her garden and by the sea. These fragments have been eroded by the elements to reveal their bones or essential structures, and they form the basis of her work as she attempts to give them a voice. Weiss’ practice extends to painting, drawing, writing and installation. Curator Danny Lacy describes her work as, “a spiritual entanglement with the landscape, her drawings and paintings of natural objects often anthropomorphise into body parts, exploring the symbiosis between the body and nature.”

Weiss has been an art educator and committed supporter of upcoming artists for many years. Over the past thirty years, Weiss has exhibited widely in Australia, and her work can be found in private and public collections including the Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Artbank Sydney, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Rosie Weiss is represented by Spill Projects.

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