Listen. Listen. Small birds sing while the wide world weeps

SKU: 22509

Rod Moss Listen. Listen. Small birds sing while the wide world weeps 2024 graphite on Waterford paper 107x184cm FW22509

ROD MOSS
Born: 1948 Ferntree Gully VIC

Rod Moss has lived in Alice Springs since 1984 during which time his art has promoted conversation between First Australians and settler culture. His artwork has been widely exhibited and reviewed in Australia and the U.S.A. reaching a significant audience with representation in 2004 NGV Show, Australian Art Now, and being published in Terry Smith’s Contemporary Art: World Currents. Both memoirs, The Hard Light of Day and One Thousand Cuts won the NT Book of the Year. Hard Light also won the Prime Ministers Award for non-fiction 2011. His third memoir, Crossing the Great Divide, is an account of how he came to ground himself in the Centre’s unique culture. Blue Moon Bay was also published in 2019; a graphic novella and comic satire of small town Australia.
Through his painting and drawing Rod interprets the cultural interface between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Central Australia where he resides. Using graphite and synthetic polymer paint he carefully constructs narratives that challenge conventional images and endow his subjects with a common humanity. The blinding light of the desert environment renders a new way of seeing and elicits a gentle interrogation of the nature of what is accepted as realism.

Excerpt from LOOK CLOSER catalogue essay for The Hard Light of Day: Rod Moss 2006, Rex Butler 2005

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