Roy Ananda is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Biography
Roy Ananda was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1980. He has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from
Adelaide Central School of Art
Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Glenside, Adelaide, Australia. The school, which was founded in 1982, offers degree cour ...
and a Master of Arts from the University of South Australia. Ananda was the South Australian recipient of the
Qantas
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Foundation Art Award in 2010. His work has featured in the 2012 Heysen Sculpture Biennial and the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
Portraits of Ananda by Deidre But-Husaim have been finalists in the 2011 Archibald Prize and the 2011 Doug Moran Portrait Prize.
Ananda was awarded the
South Australian Living Artist Festival Publication in 2021.
Ananda is married to artist
Julia Robinson
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.
Artistic style and subject
Ananda is known for his large-scale sculptures and drawings referencing fandom and pop culture. ''Slow Crawl into Infinity'' recreated the opening words of
Star Wars
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as a large-scale sculpture at the
Samstag Museum in 2014.
Further reading
* Purvis, Andrew, Klavins, Bernadette,
Williams, Sean. ''Roy Ananda''. Wakefield Press, 2021
* Ananda, Roy (2017).
How to write a fan letter: The generative potential of pop-culture fandom in contemporary visual art practice'. Master's Thesis, University of South Australia.
* McKenzie, Jenna. Roy Ananda: How to write a fan letter. ''Artlink'', Vol. 36, No. 4, Dec 2016: 56-59.
* Sliuzas, Adele. Roy Ananda: The Devourer Sandra Uray-Kennett: A knights tour through a rent in the wall. ''Artlink'', Vol. 33, No. 3, Sep 2013: 91.
References
External links
Entryin
Design and Art Australia Online
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Lecturer profile
Roy Ananda - CACSA Contemporary 2010: The New New
Roy Ananda - Thin walls between dimensions
SALA 2017 - Roy Ananda vs Monte Masi Pecha Kucha BattleSpend some time with…Roy Ananda
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Living people
Artists from Adelaide
Mixed-media artists
21st-century Australian sculptors
Australian art educators
University of South Australia alumni
Artists from South Australia
Australian contemporary artists
1980 births