Roy Ananda
photo: Steph Fuller
Roy Ananda is a visual artist, writer, and educator practicing on Kaurna Country (Tarndanya/Adelaide Plains). His objects, drawings, installations, texts, and videos variously celebrate popular culture, play, process, and the very act of making. Since 2001 he has exhibited prolifically around Australia, holding solo exhibitions at Adelaide Central Gallery (Adelaide), the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (Adelaide), Dianne Tanzer Gallery+ Projects (Melbourne), FELTspace (Adelaide), Gallery 4a (Sydney), Hugo Michell Gallery (Adelaide), Samstag Museum of Art (Adelaide), and West Space (Melbourne). His work has been included in national survey exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide), the Drill Hall Gallery (Canberra), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney). Since 2004 Ananda has lectured at Adelaide Central School of Art, where he is currently the Head of Drawing. His writing has appeared in a wide variety of journals, books, exhibition catalogues, zines, and websites. Ananda is an avid and eclectic pop-culture enthusiast and his deep-seated love of Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, and the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (to name but a few fandoms) often looms large in his visual art practice. In 2021, Ananda was the subject of the South Australian Living Artist Publication, published by Wakefield Press.
Roy Ananda writes about CJ Taylor in Neoteric 2022.