Bird Boat u0026 Egg Raft, Art Gallery of NSW, 1991. © Ross Mellick.

Ross Mellick’s work returns Australian sculpture to the symbolic in contrast with the intellectual and conceptual work of the ‘70s.

– Graeme Sturgeon, ‘Australian Sculpture Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, 1982.

About

Ross Mellick is a distinctive figure in the Australian art scene, known for a practice that bridges the gap between the scientific and the symbolic. Uniquely, he is also a highly accomplished neurologist, a background that deeply informs his sculptural and installation work.

Song of the Sea Raft at the Art Gallery of NSW
Ross Mellick drawings
Yin, mixed media on shaped canvas