Ross Annels Resume 2020
Lomandra Place Studios
Unit 3 8 Lomandra Place Coolum Beach 4573
ph: 61 (0)407 489 227
ross@rossannels.com
Selected Projects
2019-2021 Bunya Infinity Forest w Leah Barclay and Bianca Beetson creating sculptural work for permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Australia
2019 Giant display frame for Scenic Rim Council with Blue Sky View Consulting.
2019, 2018 masterclass presenter, Wood Dust Australia, Queenbeyan NSW, Fitzroy VIC
2018 Gayaphone - a triggered sound sculpture with Linsey Pollak for Mary Cairncross Rainforest Interpretative Centre
2018, 2017 Project Team Bunya Dreaming festival, QLD Aust
2018 Portable Outdoor Gallery system for Sunshine Coast Council with Blue Sky View consulting.
2017 Bunya Collaboration, Cooroora Institute
2017, 2020 Restoration of public artworks for Brisbane City Council with Blue Sky View consulting
2017 Display furniture for State Library QLD with Blue Sky View consulting.
2015 Fig Tree Project - a collaborative investigation & response to a heritage listed tree removed from the Exhibition Grounds.
2013 Instructor 12 week intensive - Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Maine USA
Curator Crafting the Antipodean Landscape Crafthaus, USA.
Developer/presenter Wood-bending Intensive for Indonesian Forest Products Researchers, Cooroora Institute for Melbourne University
Visiting Lecturer, Product Design, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Whipbird 1 - a birdcall inspired chair
Invited Participant in Ton design competition, Czech
Cantilever Table, Sunshine Coast.
2009-2018 Co-Direct, deliver and develop Cooroora Institute program including performances, workshops and artists residencies
Butterfly Table, Sunshine Coast Council
Mayrah's Chairs, collaboration with gamileroi artist Mayrah Yarraga
Bent Bench, Caloundra
Cato Cases, Noosa Council
Bookshop furniture, National Library of Australia
Echinoid chair, private collection, QLD
Sapling chairs, private collection, Sydney
Reception Desk, Cooloola Regional Gallery,QLD.
Curvature Sunlounger for Rivergum Furniture.
Dining furniture for residences in Australia, UK, NZ, Hong Kong, Canada and USA.
Exhibitions and awards
2019 October Analogue Environmental Sound Synthesiser with Karla Pringle for Floating Land Arts Festival, Boreen Point, Noosa , QLD, Aust.
2019 Summer Rain Benches for Tall Trees 2019, Cooran, QLD
2018 Cross Grain for Complex Grief for Studio Furniture 2018, Bungendore WWG, NSW, Aust
2018 Sitting with the Voice of Trees with Leah Barclay for TreePlace, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD Aust.
2018 Shemple with Kari for Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin, QLD.
2018 Myriapod Table for Wootha Prize, Maleny QLD Award Winner
2016 Regional Marks with Tamsin Kerr, University Gallery, USC, QLD, Aust.
2015 Tree Story, with Tamsin Kerr for LendLease /RNA /Rydges Hotel, Fortitude Valley, QLD, Aust.
2015 Shemple. with Kari, for Floating Land Arts Festival, Boreen Point, Noosa , QLD, Aust.
2014 Grainy Songs, Solo Exhibition, University Sunshine Coast Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2013 Faculty Show, Messsler Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Maine USA.
2013 Curators Choice, Gympie Regional Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2013 The Currency of Birdsong. Floating Land Arts Festival, The Cooroora Institute, QLD Australia.
2012 Decoy Saskatchewan Craft Council, Canada.
2012 CraftHaus Scholarship.
2011 At your Service, CraftHaus USA
2010 Sitting Pretty, Crafthaus, USA
2010 Solo Eco-regional Story, Gympie Regional Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2010 Winner Australia Day Creative Award, Sunshine Coast Council
2010 Bug Eyed Gympie Regional Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2009 Wood as Art - featuring Tables, Crafthaus, USA.
2009 Travelling Scholarship Noosa Reg Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2009 Five Senses QLD State Library, QLD, Aust.
2008 Holzdesign Australien: Wissenschaft im Atelier. Handwerkskammer Rheinhessen, Mainz, Germany.
2008 Art of the Chair Noosa Regional Gallery , QLD, Aust.
2008 Studio Furniture 2008 Bungendore Woodworks, NSW, Aust.
2007 Travelling Scholarship Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2006 Chainsaw to Fine Furniture Maleny, QLD, Aust.
2005 Please be seated... again Bungendore Wood Works Gallery, NSW, Aust.
2005 Chainsaw to Fine Furniture Maleny, QLD, Aust.
2004 Please be Seated, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW, Aust.
2004 Australian Wood Review Fine Woodwork Awards Open Award Winner
2004 Contemporary Furniture Exhibition Cooroy, QLD, Aust.
2004 Collectables Craft QLD, Brisbane, QLD, Aust.
2004 Chainsaw to Fine Furniture Maleny, QLD, Aust.
2003 Elemental One, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2003 Sound Builders, QBFM Cooroy, QLD, Aust.
2003 Chainsaw to Fine Furniture Maleny, QLD, Aust.
2002 Contemporary Furniture Exhibition QLD, Aust Winner Craftsmanship Award
2002 C21 Chair Brisbane City Gallery, QLD, Aust.
2002 Collected: Uncovering the Passion Craft QLD, Brisbane, QLD, Aust.
2002 Big Blue Shed, Noosa Long Weekend, QLD, Aust.
2002 Chainsaw to Fine Furniture Maleny, QLD, Aust.
2001 Contemporary Furniture Exhibition QLD
2001 Chainsaw to Fine Furniture Maleny, QLD, Aust.
2001 Infestation Craft QLD, Brisbane
2001 QCL Regional Arts Award, Logan City Gallery, QLD, Aust. Winner 3d
2001 Dialogue Cooroy, QLD, Aust.
Professional & Community Involvement
2002-2020 Professional member, Vic Woodworkers Association
2009-2018 Co-founder and co-director Cooroora Institute
2004-10 Member, US Furniture Society
2004-6 President, Craft QLD
2003-4 Board Member, Craft QLD.
2000-2006 Steering Committee, Contemporary Furniture Exhibition
2000-2007 Executive member, Cooroy Task Force
2001-2002 Board Member, Arts and Heritage Board, Noosa Council
Events and Media
2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2003 Invited Artist CollaborationAu
2013, 2011 Invited artist CollaboratioNZ, Whangarei, NZ.
2012 Invited artist Emma International Collaboration, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2012 Fellowship Residency, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Maine, USA.
2010 Kerr, T An Ecoregional Story: Ross Annels’s regional crafting of landscape memoir Art Monthly Australia 236: 50-52
2010 Hemachandra, R Lark Studio Series – Chairs Lark Books, New York.
2010 Hemachandra, R and J Grew Sheridan 500 Cabinets a Showcase of Design and Craftsmanship. Lark Books, New York.
2009 Kerr, T and Annels, R Memory keepers, map makers and material thinkers: the sustained offerings of craft objects Making Futures: The Crafts in the context of emerging global sustainability agendas. Plymouth College of Art, UK.
2009 Participant Furniture Futures Symposium, V&A Museum, London, UK.
2009 Kerr, T and Annels, R The Contemporary Design of Ross Annels Cooroora Institute.
2008 Nutt, Craig. 500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional & Innovative Designs Lark Books, New York.
2008 Erasmus, Neil. Studio Furniture 2008. Australian Wood Review 58:34
2008 Kerr, T. If I say I love my place, what’s with the bags I’ve packed? The cultural changes required by landscape memoir and eco-regionalism pp 5-8 Art Monthly Australia 214: 5-8,
2004 Invited panelist – Queensland Design Futures