Rosie Weiss

Weiss is a Mornington Peninsula based artist & educator whose work focuses on her connection with the natural world. She collects plant fragments that she finds from sites at the edges of intensive human activity; paths, bush tracks, school playgrounds, city streets, her garden and by the sea. These fragments have often been worn down by human impacts and natural forces to reveal their essential structures, and they form the basis of her practice as she attempts to give them a voice.

In 1992 Weiss won the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship with her painting, Lung , a response to the chemical fire on Coode Island the same year. In 1996 she completed her Master of Arts at RMIT with Intimate Patterns a body of work that examined her relationship with nature. Weiss has exhibited in Australia, Asia & France and her work can be found in private and public collections across this continent including The National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Artbank & The National Gallery of Australia.