Bundanon

Rubyrose Bancroft is a Bundjalung woman from Northern New South Wales.

Ruby completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School in 2020. Her final work The 7 Deadly Sins was acquired for the National Art School Collection.

Rubyrose has exhibited with Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative and in external exhibitions including BOOMALLI NOW (Hobiennale 2019), MCA Art Bar and NO SHOW (Carriageworks, Sydney). Rubyrose presented a live art installation for Amnesty International’s Dadirri exhibition in 2018.

Rubyrose has been commissioned to produce unique artwork designs by Australian Indigenous Mentoring experience (AIME) and Budgy Smuggler swimwear. Rubyrose was also involved in a project with the NRMA which saw her artwork Ripple Effect II featured on a billboard acknowledging Bundjalung Country.

In Residence at Bundanon

My project for the residency at Bundanon is to continue to develop my drawing practice in a completely new environment and document the local landscape through my rendering of that environment. I feel that the foundation for my artistic development lies within the gathering of vision information and the opportunity to practice on a daily timetable and be able to develop a body of drawing concepts that can then be used as creative levers for my paintings, my printing, my ceramics and future claymations.

I have been concentrating on a body of work about the empowerment of women and the documentation of women. I want to convey the strength of women in these drawings and paintings as I come from a matrilineal bloodline of incredibly strong women.