Sculpture and Public Art
My sculptural works focus on reimagining our collaborative relationship with the larger biotic environment we are part of, and the ways we perceive it.
Bunya Infinity Forest - creating representations of the Bunya Forest National Museum of Australia with Dr Leah Barclay and Dr Bianca Beetson.
Analogue Environmental Sound Synthesiser. A collaborative work with Karla Pringle for Floating Land 2019, Lake Cootharaba, Noosa.
Sitting with the voice of Trees - a collaboration with soundscape artist Dr Leah Barclay for Tree Place at Noosa Regional Gallery. Design and making Ross Annels. Soundcapes by Leah Barclay. Redgum timber kerf-bent. Headphone loop is the listening tree from canopy to soil. Transduceer uses the chair (and inhabitant) as speaker and plays the internal soundtrack of the tree from root tips to tree top.
Shemple - Floating Land 2015 with Kari
Gayaphone - an interactive sculptural sound installation for Mary Caircross Park. Collaboration with Linsey Pollak
Chair for the Lake
Fig Tree Project for Lendlease and the RNA with Dr Tamsin Kerr
An Australian Political Decoy - populist political rhetoric turns refugees - desperate individual humans fleeing turmoil and personal tragedy - into two dimensional queue jumpers and criminals to be discouraged, turned away or locked up. How is it our hospitable and generous culture is so easily turned to xenophobia and inhumanity?
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you ... A stool of steam-bent bunya and cast silicon - deep rooted, from the edge, full of the songs of wind and land. Approx 450 x 450 x 300mm, Ross Annels 2023. Prototype Aeolian Harps for sonifying/singing The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you ... A stool of steam-bent bunya and cast silicon - deep rooted, from the edge, full of the songs of wind and land. Approx 450 x 450 x 300mm, Ross Annels 2023. Prototype Aeolian Harps for sonifying/singing the winds - various dimensions, Bunya, bamboo, red cedar, harp pins, nylon monofilament. Ross Annels 2023. Soundscapes composed/composited by Karla Pringle using sounds gathered from the bunya lands by Ross and Karla using Aeolian Harps and digital recorders, reproduced through stool and headphones. 30 mins. 2023
