ROD MOSS
Born: 1948 Ferntree Gully Victoria
EDUCATION
1995 Master of Visual Arts Monash Gippsland University College Documentation: Dwelling in Arrernte Country
1992 Monash Gippsland University Graduate Diploma Course Examination
1991 Exhibition of paintings and documentation of course work including Research Paper White Art Through White Gate
1974-78 Chisholm Institute Diploma of Art and Design (Painting)
EXHIBITIONS—SOLO
2016 The Origin of the New Poetics Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne
2014 DRAWN FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2014 Layered & Burnished Nevada State Gallery Las Vegas
2014 Whitegate_Where Art and Life Collide Burrinja Gallery Upwey
2013 One Thousand Cuts Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne
2013 Anatomy Lesson: You.Me.Us Araluen Cultural Centre Alice Springs
2012 Mirror FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2011 Mirror Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne
2010 Déjà vu: The Hard Light of Day FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2010 Hard Light of Day Peta Appleyard Gallery Alice Springs
2009 Agony in the Garden The Diagnosis of Dr Goldenberg Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne
2008 Intervention FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2008 Art at The Heart Regional Conference Convention Centre Alice Springs
2007 The Heart of the Matter City Lending library Melbourne
2007 Even As We Speak Uber Gallery Melbourne
2005 The Hard Light of Day FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2004 Big Country Small Histories ARC1 @ Span Flinders Lane Melbourne
2000 Once Upon a Time in the Centre FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1999 Whitegate Mob Kluge-Ruhe Foundation Charlottesville VA
1999 Outback Art Columbus State University Columbus Georgia
1998 Where Do You Come From Brother Boy? Araluen Alice Springs
1998 Where Do You Come From Brother Boy? Fireworks Brisbane
1997 Rocks & Hard Places Prospect Gallery Adelaide
1997 Rocks & Hard Places Port Nourlunga Arts Centre SA
1996 Pushing Up River FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country Araluen Alice Springs
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country Fireworks Brisbane
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country Switchback Gallery Gippsland
1995 Territorial Bodies Tin Sheds Sydney
1994 Rod Moss Paintings Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne
1994 Rod Moss Paintings FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1993 Smack Daub in the Middle The Residency Alice Springs
1992 Territory Perspective's Artist of the Month April Development House Darwin
1992 24-Hour Contemporary Art Space Darwin
1992 Stuart Gerstman Galleries Melbourne
1990 Showcase Gallery Darwin
1990 Stuart Gerstman Galleries Melbourne
1990 The Araluen Centre Alice Springs
1987 Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
1986 Hogarth Galleries Sydney
1984 Manuka Galleries Canberra
1983 Profile Gallery Melbourne
1978 Hawthorn City Art Gallery Melbourne
EXHIBITIONS—GROUP (SELECTED)
2016 Black, White & Restive Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
2016 For The Birds Framed Gallery Darwin
2014 Layered & 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 NT Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
2005 Seeing The Other Kluge-Ruhe Foundation Charlottesville VA
2005 Alice Spring's Artist's Survey Show Araluen Cultural Centre Alice Springs
2005 The Dark & The Light III FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2004 Contemporary Australian ART Ian Potter National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
2003 People FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2003 True Blue Framed Gallery Darwin
1999 Big Smoke Coo-ee Gallery Sydney
1996 Wijay Na 24 Hr Art Darwin
1996 Eyes on the Ball Waverly City Gallery (Curator Chris McAuliffe)then Touring '97)
1996 Sub-Urban Fremantle Arts Centre (Curator Thelma John)
1994 Contemporary Territory (Curator Dawn Mendham)
1994 Faces and Figures The Araluen Centre (Curator Alison French)
1992 Graduate Exhibition Monash University College Gippsland Latrobe Valley Arts Centre Commercial Road Morwell
1991 National Students Show Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne Melbourne
1990 Balance 1990 Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane
1990 Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Buildings Melbourne
1990 Outback Originals Outback Gallery Boulder Colorado
1989 One Country Two Views The Araluen Centre (Curator Joanne Boniface)
1988 Fletcher Jones Invitation Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery Warrnambool
AWARDS
2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Australia
2002 Tennant Creek Art Award Nothern Territory
2001 Tammy Kingsley Award Alice Springs
2001 Alice Prize - Highly Commended Alice Springs
1998 Outback Art Award Broken Hill
1992 Professional Development Grant Australia Council for the Arts
1991 Painting and Residency Prize: Inaugural National Student Art and Design Exhibition Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
1984-2008 Since 1984 the artist has won or been acquired for the various awards in the Alice Springs region: the Alice Prize the Tennant Creek Prize the Centralian Advocate Prize and the Northern Territory Art Award In 1998 he won the Broken Hill Outback Art Award In 1999 he accepted a residency there as part of the prize having earlier in the year accepted a residency at Columbus State University Georgia and followed his exhibition there with an exhibition at the Kluge Ruhe Foundation University of Virginia Charlottesville VA
PUBLISHED ESSAYS
2008 Big Country Small Histories Imagine Alice PP16-20
2008 Henry Smiths’ Big Trees Exhibition notes at Araluen
2007 Even As We Speak Arena Mag no87
2005 Stumbling Into Dreamtime Arena Mag No79 Oct/Nov PP 44-45
2003 Hunting On The Sabbath Overlander Spring issue no 72 PP70-72
2002 Sacred Space Henry Smith’s exhibition at Araluen (Catalogue notes)
1997 Elegy UTS Magazine November
1996 Northern Territory Government 1997 September (Calendar )
1996 Transcendental Landscape Revisited Oz Arts Issue No 13
1996 Towards a Realism at Wijay Na? NT Museum (Conference Paper)
1995 The Stones Just Keep on Coming Barking Dogs p7
1994 Scottish Narratives of the Centre Oz Arts Issue No11
1993 Only Yesterday Oz Arts Issue No5 p60
1993 John anderson The Figurative Tradition Mornington Regional Gallery (Catalogue)
1992 On the East Side of Alice's Face Catalogue essay 24-Hour Art Darwin
1992 A Softer Blanket of Ruin — 1985-92 Catalogue essay Stuart Gerstman gallery
1992 Catalogue essay Graduate Exhibition Latrobe Valley Arts Centre Morwell
1992 Interview with Mandy Martin in Periphery
1990 b1990: Views Visions Influences Catalogue notes Queensland Gallery
1988 Catalogue essay Fletcher Jones’ Invitation Warnambool Regional Art Gallery
1987 Catalogue essay Warwick Armstrong's Survey Show Devise Gallery
1987 Cover Art for Tim Rowse’s Indigenous Futures & Micky Dewar’s Never Never (survey of Territory Literature) Will Dobby’s music cassette This Piece of Dirt
PUBLISHED MATERIAL
2014 One Thousand Cuts, Rod Moss
2010 The Hard Light of Day, Rod Moss
2007 Myths Stereotypes and Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture Traudi Allen MacMillan
2006 The Sound of the Sky Daena Murray pp185-194
2006 Cover for Globalism Institute RMIT
2005 Sylvia Kleinert & Rex Butler's catalogue essays for The Hard Light Of Day FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2005 Naked In Alice Barry Hill Arena Magazine no 75pp36-38 (Front & Rear Covers)
2005 Crash Sites Sylvia kleinert Artlink vol 25 no 2 pp30-35
2004 The MakersJulia Copeland July 23rd on Radio Nationa
2004 Art Almanace June p49
2004 The Colour of Rupture Robert Nelson The Age June 30th
2004 The White Gaze on Aborigines The Age July 3rd
2004 Rod Moss’s Royal Portraits Rex Butler Australian Art Collector 28 pp98-101
2004 Catalogue 2004 p33 & p173
2004 Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss Rex Butler catalogue notes for Arc 1 show
2003 Working Backwards Daena Murray Conference paper Art Gallery of Western Australia
2002 This is not an Aborigine Rex Butler Paper for NSWG Art Historian’s Conference Dec 6-7
2001 The Hottest Gallery in the World p45
2000 Cultural Insight Brisbane News Phil Brown
2001 Once upon a Time in the Centre Eyeline Summer Edition P44 Alison Lee
1999 Artist breaks New Ground Kelly Chapman Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Georgia
1998 John Morton The Horses Mouth Museum of Victoria publication
1998 Them & Us Cuts Both Ways Kieran Finnane Alice Springs News
1998 Art Monthly April
1997 Many Rivers To Cross Stephanie Radock Adelaide Review
1997 Saltwater Freshwater Borewater pp 12-14 Campfire group
1996 Central Psyche Kieran Finnane Art in Australia Vol34 PP40-4
1996 Peripheral Visions Charles Green P130
1996 Black & White Art Mick Paskos Fremantle Gazette 12th July
1996 Wijay Na? Daene Murray Art Monthly No 92 August
1996 Radio National Arts Interview with Martin Portus & Peter Adsett
1996 Wijay Na Suzanne Spunner Real Time July/August
1996 Wijay Na? Papers Pp34-38 24Hr Art ed Jackie Wurm
1995 Territory Picture Show catalogue article Dawn Mendham
1995 Brush Power John McDonald SMH 21 Oct Spectrum 15
1995 Who's Who of Australian Visual Arts Thorpe P220
1995 Contemporary Territory Maurice O'Riordan Eyeline 25 P46
1994 Contemporary Territory Dawn Mendham Catalogue
1994 Rethinking Regionalism Terry Smith Art in Australia
1993 Art in Australia Vol 30 N3 Autumn p 386
1992 Gallery Scene Rebecca Lancashire Sunday Age 16 april p26
1992 Gotham City Gossip 3RRR interview with Roger Taylor
1991 Isolation Art Rosalinde Reines Mode August p81
1990 Choice of three styles Dr June Kane NT News 10 April
1990 Purity Calls may Be Paternalistic John McDonald Sydney Morning Herald 10 March
1983 Art in Australia Vol 20 N 3 Autumn p395
COLLECTIONS
Private collections Australia wide including Alice Springs, Darwin, Sydney & Melbourne
The Howard Black Collection Sydney University Union
Northern Territory Museum of Arts & Sciences Darwin
Anglicare Darwin
Alice Art Foundation The Araluen Centre Alice Springs
Artbank Sydney
BHP Billinton Melbourne
Alice Art Society The Araluen Centre Alice Springs
Charles Darwin University
Tennant Creek Civic Centre
Queensland Art Gallery
Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery
Alice Springs Centrelink Building
Prospect Council Chambers Adelaide
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Kluge Rhue Foundation University of Virginia USA
Columbus State University Georgia USA
Wooloongong University NSW
Unviversity of Queensland QLD
