Roslyn Oxley

Roslyn Oxley is a Sydney gallerist and art dealer. With her husband Tony Oxley, she owns and operates Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, which opened in March 1982 with an exhibition by Gareth Sansom. In January 2013, Roslyn Oxley, together with Tony Oxley was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to the visual arts and the community. Roslyn Oxley is considered one of the most influential gallerists in Australia, supporting the cause of contemporary art, ‘including that which is non-commercial and otherwise challenging’.

Roslyn Oxley is the daughter of John Robert Walton, founder of the Australian department store Waltons. From 1957 to 1960, Oxley studied art and design at East Sydney Technical College, now the National Art School. For the next two decades she worked as an interior designer in Sydney, Melbourne and New York City for firms and designers including Peddle Thorp & Walker (now PTW Architects and Raymond Loewy). In 1970 she married Anthony Oxley and together they co-founded Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in 1982.

A number of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery artists were exhibited in important European, North American and Asian art museums during the decade. In 1983, 12 gallery artists were included in ‘D’un autre continent: l’Australie, le rêve et le réel’ at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Mike Parr and Ken Unsworth were included in ‘An Australian Accent’, the Kaldor Public Art Projects exhibition that travelled to New York’s MoMA PS1 and Washington DC’s Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1984. That year gallery artists Dale Frank, John Nixon and Vivienne Shark LeWitt were included in ‘Australian Visions’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1988, six gallery artists were included ‘Edge to Edge: Australian Contemporary Art to Japan’ that travelled to Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya and Hokkaido. Gallery artists curated into the ‘Aperto’ section at the Venice Biennale included Dale Frank (1984) and Maria Kozic (1986). In 1986, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery held the first solo show of Marc Newson, which included his Lockheed Lounge. Seminal 1980s artists that also exhibited at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery included John Baldessari, Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring and Barbara Kruger.

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