Until 1988 she freelanced as an illustrator of children’s books for publishers Oxford University Press, Longman and Cheshire and Thomas Nelson Australia, experience which inspired and coloured her sculptural imagery.
Alongside that work Ross also pursued her artistic interests, renting space at Caravan, a group studio in Richmond, where she met sculptors.
[6] Ross's training in foundry techniques enables her to produce work more quickly than can those sculptors who rely on others for the industrial processes required in production of large-scale sculpture.
[16] Ross's $80,000 The Resting Place (1999) for the City of Kingston which, as reported in The Australian Jewish News, was her then largest work and based on her research into the indigenous name for the district mooorooboon, a factor acknowledged by the mayor as a reason 'the artist was chosen for her skill and the enormous enthusiasm she brought to the project.
'[7] Known for the anthropomorphic characterisations of her subjects, Ross's submission in the McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey of 2006 attracted critic Ashley Crawford's comment that it 'looks cute from afar, but upon approach the mongrels turn on the viewer with deep growls; one almost expects them to start frothing at the mouth.
In 2023, the three-part sculpture She gave me a daisy was featured at Billilla Mansion Gardens[26] as an extension of her major solo retrospective at Brighton's Bayside Gallery.