In conjunction with the Drill Hall exhibition Material Nature, Friends of the Drill Hall Gallery are invited to join us for a tour of Ros Auld's exhibition INSIGHT: Figure and Landscape at Orange Regional Gallery, followed by a visit to her beautiful studio in rural Borenore.

We will meet at Orange Regional Gallery at 11am where Director Bradley Hammond, accompanied by Ros Auld, will give the group a tour of the exhibition and gallery. Lunch at a local cafe will follow at around 12.30pm. At around 2pm we will travel 15 minutes drive out of Orange to Borenore, where Ros will give us a tour of her amazing studio on her rural property. Afternoon tea will be provided. The day will end at approximately 4pm.

Attendees will need to organise their own transport for the entire trip. If you would like to offer transport to another attendee, or you need someone to travel with, let Anne-Marie from the Drill Hall know and she can try and team you up. (anne-marie.jean@anu,edu.au).

Ros Auld works principally in sculptural ceramics and is one of eight artists featured in the Drill Hall Gallery exhibition Material Nature (June20-August10). She studied painting and ceramics at the National Art Schools in Newcastle and Sydney, and in 1975 worked in the ceramic studio of the painter John Piper, in England. On returning to Australia, she taught visual arts and ceramics at tertiary level for a number of years before concentrating on her own work at her studio near Orange.

Landscape is a continuing source of inspiration and theme through Auld’s work. She speaks of her reflections of landscape more as “the accumulation of recollected impressions than particular sites… the weathered surfaces, textures and subtle colours of the Australian bush; the patterns in the cultivated landscape.” The contrasting strengths and fragilities of nature are felt in the bold forms with complex surface textures and glazes of her large hand-built vessels, and steel and ceramic sculptures.

Auld has enjoyed collaborations with other artists, most notably Euan Macleod, John Olsen and Tim Winters. She has exhibited widely, and her work is held in many galleries and private collections in Australia and overseas. Auld is represented by Art Atrium in Sydney and Messums in the United Kingdom. https://www.rosauld.com.au/

Ros Auld in her studio 2025. Photographer John Daly