Rod Moss

Rod Moss is unafraid to confront the dark underbelly of Australian society. Appropriating compositions from the Old Masters and religious paintings, Moss unflinchingly depicts the impact of alcohol and violence, contrasted with tender romantic moments of family life and cultural traditions.

Moss was awarded a M.F.A. from Monash University in 1995. Among his solo exhibitions are The Hard Light of Day, South Australian Museum, Adelaide (2010) and Columbus State University, Georgia (1999). He participated in Contemporary Australian Art, Ian Potter NGV, Melbourne (2004); and Sounds of the Sky 200 Years of Non-indigenous Visual Responses to the NT, NT Museums Survey, Darwin (2006).

Moss was awarded the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2011 for his first memoir The Hard Light of Day. Moss’s second memoir, One Thousand Cuts: Life and Art in Central Australia was launched in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition at Anna Pappas Gallery in 2013

Works are held in numerous collections including the Parliament House Collection, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Artbank, Sydney and Charles Darwin University, Darwin.

Rod Moss

Rod Moss

Rod Moss

EDUCATION

1995    MFA, Monash University, Gippsland, Victoria
1992    Graduate Diploma, Monash University, Gippsland, Victoria
1978    Diploma of Art and Design (Painting), Chisholm Institute, Victoria

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lecturer, Painting and Drawing, Department of Creative and Applied Art, Charles Darwin University, Darwin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
The Origin of the New Poetics, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2015
Drawn, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

2014
Layered & Burnished, Nevada State Gallery, Las Vegas
Whitegate_Where Art and Life Collide, Burrinja Gallery, Upwey

2013
One Thousand Cuts, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Anatomy Lesson: You.Me.Us, Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs

2012
Mirror, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

2011
Enigma of the Whiteman, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2010
The Hard Light of Day, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
The Enigma of the Whiteman, Peta Appleyard Gallery, Alice Springs

2008
Intervention, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

2004
Big Country; Small Histories, ARC1@Span, Melbourne

1999
Whitegate Mob, Kluge-Rhue Foundation, Charlottesville, USA
Outback Art, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA

1996
Pushing Up River, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane

1995
Territorial Bodies, Tin Sheds, Sydney
Dwelling in Arrernte Country, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs

1994
Rod Moss Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Rod Moss Paintings, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
Black & White Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
For The Birds, Framed Gallery, Darwin

2014
Layered and Burnished, Nevada State University, Nevada

2012
Art of the Nomad, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin

2006
The Sound Of The Sky, 200 years of non-indigenous visual response to the N.T, Museum & Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin

2005
Seeing The Other, Kluge-Ruhe Foundation Gallery, Charlottesville VA

2004
2004, Contemporary Australian ART, Ian Potter NGV, Melbourne

2003
People, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

1996
Wijay Na, 24 Hr Art Gallery, Darwin

1994
Faces and Figures The Araluen Centre (Curator Alison French)

1990
Balance 1990, Queensland Art Gallery (Curator Michael Eather), Brisbane

AWARDS & GRANTS

2011    Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, Australia
2002    Tennant Creek Art Award, Northern Territory
2001    Tammy Kingsley Award, Alice Springs
2001    Alice Prize – Highly Commended, Alice Springs
1998    Outback Art Award, Queensland
1992    Professional Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Australia
1991    Painting and Residency Prize: Inaugural National Student Art and Design Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

Broken Hill Regional Gallery, New South Wales
The Howard Black Collection, Sydney University Union, New South Wales
Alice Art Society and the Alice Art Foundation, The Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Northern Territory
Artbank, Sydney
BHP Billiton, Melbourne
The Kluge-Rhue Foundation, Charlottesville, USA
Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Columbus State University, Georgia, USA
City Lending Library, Melbourne
Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory
Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Prospect Council Chambers, Adelaide
Woolongong University, New South Wales
University of Queensland, Brisbane

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

Rod Moss, One Thousand Cuts; Art and Life in Central Australia, University of Queensland Press, 2013
Rod Moss,Grand Construction, Arena Magazine, 2012
Daena Murray, Hot Springs: NT & Contemporary Australian Artists, McMillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2012
Rod Moss,The Hard Light of Day; an Artist’s Memoir, University of Queensland Press, 2011
Terry Smith, Contemporary Art of the World: Late Modern to Now, Laurence King and Pearson, Prentice-Hall, 2011
Rosemary Sorensen, Tragedy and mystery of life in the red centre, The Australian, 2010
Rod Moss, Big Country Small Histories, Imagine Alice, 2008
Penny Webb, Rod Moss, Even As We Speak, The Age, 2007
Robert Nelson, Art in search of a theme is incomplete, Metro, The Age, 2007
Sarah Scott, Artnotes, Northern Territory, Art Monthly Australia, 2007
Sylvia Kleinert, Crash Sites, Artlink, 2005
Barry Hill, Naked in Alice, Arena Magazine, 2005
Robert Nelson, The Colour of Rupture, The Age, 2004
Rex Butler, Rod Moss’s Royal Portraits, Australian Art Collector, 2004
Rex Butler, This is not an Aborigine, paper for NSWG Art Historian’s Conference, 2004
Alison Lee, Once Upon a Time in the Centre, Eyeline, 2001
Rod Moss, Hunting on the Sabbath, Overlander, 2000
John Morton, The Horse’s Mouth, Museum of Victoria Publication, 1998
Charles Green, Peripheral Visions, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 1996
Maurice O’Riordan, Contemporary Territory, Eyeline, 1995
Terry Smith, Rethinking Regionalism, Art in Australia, 1994
Rod Moss, John Anderson: The Figurative Tradition, exhibition catalogue, Mornington Regional Gallery, 1993