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Rod Moss

Artist CV

ROD MOSS CV<br />
As Time Passed<br />
1948 Born Ferntree Gully, Victoria second of four children to Geoff and Beryl Moss<br />
1965 Matriculated at Boronia High school with honours in English Lit &amp; Economics<br />
1968 Graduated Melbourne Secondary Teachers College (Arts &amp; Crafts)<br />
1969-70 Teaching Art Ouyen High <br />
1971-73 Teaching Art Maroondah High <br />
1974 Teaching Art Brinsley Road School which shifted to Argo St, Prahran 1975 and to Fitzroy St, St Kilda 1976 <br />
mid 1978 Resigned to study in West Virginia, USA until late 1979. Return via <br />
Turkey &amp; Iran. Write film script, make &amp; exhibit art work and travel to Strelley Aboriginal Community, WA illustrating a bi-lingual book in 1980.<br />
1981 Work in Darwin as a relief teacher.<br />
1982-4 Resume duties at the St Kilda Alternative School 1984. Travel to India over Xmas and over Easter, again, to West Virginia. Resign and move to <br />
Batchelor, NT, working voluntarily in Batchelor Teacher’s College on bi-lingual books and weekly newsletter.<br />
Nov 1984 Assume duties at Centralian College as lecturer in the Diploma of <br />
Creative and Applied Arts.<br />
1987 Exchanged to Carine TAFE, WA <br />
1988 Resume at Centralian College. Birth of daughter, Ronja<br />
1990 Exhibit in landmark cross-culture show at QLD Gallery, Brisbane, Balance <br />
Survey<br />
1991 Conferral of 5 year Master Teacher position. Birth of son, Raphael.<br />
1995 Complete Masters of Fine Arts in painting with Monash University<br />
1996 Assume responsibilities as coordinator of the arts program for both TAFE &amp; <br />
NTU degree program (now, Charles Darwin University).<br />
1998 Artist in Residence, Columbus University, Georgia and exhibit there and <br />
Charlottesville, VA at the Kluge-Ruhe Foundation.<br />
1999 Birth of daughter, Anjou.<br />
2004 Selected for NGV Survey, Ian Potter Gallery 2004 Contemporary Australia<br />
2006 Selected for NT Museums Survey, 'Sounds of the Sky '200 Years of Non-<br />
indigenous visual Responses to the NT.<br />
Retire from lecturing to work full-time painting<br />
2007 Travel: Sicily, Tunisia, Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Italy, Georgia and Azerbaijan<br />
Oct 2007 Concurrent exhibitions, in Melbourne at Uber Gallery and the City Lending <br />
Library<br />
2008 Intervention, Fireworks, Brisbane<br />
2008 Agony in the Garden, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, Victoria<br />
20010 The Hard Light of Day, Peta Appleyard Gallery, Alice Springs (book launch, <br />
The Hard Light of Day; an artist’s memoir), <br />
The Hard Light of Day, SA Museum exhibition &amp; book Launch, <br />
Hard Light of Day, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, Victoria<br />
Deja Vous: The Hard Light of Day, exhibition &amp; book launch, Fireworks <br />
Gallery, Brisbane<br />
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS<br />
2010 Hard Light of Day, exhibition &amp; book launch, Peta Appleyard Gallery, Alice <br />
Springs<br />
2008 Intervention, Fireworks, Brisbane<br />
2008 Art at the Heart, National Regional Conference, Alice Springs Convention <br />
Centre<br />
2007 Even as we Speak, Uber Gallery, St Kilda<br />
2007 The Heart of the Matter, City Lending Library, Melbourne<br />
2004 Big Country; Small Histories ARC1 @ Span, Flinders Lane Melbourne<br />
2000 Once Upon a Time in the Centre, Fireworks, Brisbane<br />
1999 Whitegate Mob, Kluge-Ruhe Foundation, Charlottesville VA<br />
1999 Outback Art, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, <br />
1998 Where Do You Come From Brother Boy? Araluen<br />
1997 Rocks &amp; Hard Places, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide<br />
1996 Pushing Up River, Fireworks, Brisbane<br />
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country, Fireworks, Brisbane<br />
1995 Territorial Bodies, Tin Sheds, Sydney<br />
1994 Rod Moss Paintings Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne<br />
1990 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne<br />
1987 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide<br />
1986 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney<br />
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS<br />
2006 The Sound Of The Sky, MGSNT, Darwin<br />
2005 Seeing The Other, Kluge-Ruhe Foundation, Charlottesville VA<br />
2004 2004 Contemporary Australian ART, Ian Potter NGV Melbourne<br />
1996 Wijay Na, 24 Hr Art, Darwin<br />
1996 Eyes on the Ball, Waverly City Gallery (Curator Chris McAuliffe) then <br />
Touring '97 <br />
1996 Sub-Urban Fremantle Arts Centre(Curator Thelma John)<br />
1994 Contemporary Territory (Curator Dawn Mendham)<br />
1994 Faces and Figures The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs (Curator Alison <br />
French)<br />
1991 Inaugural National Students Show, Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne<br />
1990 Balance 1990 Queensland Art Gallery<br />
1989 One Country, Two Views, The Araluen Centre (Curator Joanne Boniface)<br />
1988 Fletcher Jones Invitation, Warnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warnambool<br />
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS<br />
The Howard Black Collection Sydney University Union <br />
Broken Hill Regional Gallery<br />
Northern Territory Museum of Arts &amp; Sciences, Darwin<br />
Alice Art Foundation, The Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs<br />
Artbank, Sydney<br />
BHP Billiton, Melbourne<br />
Q.L.D Art Gallery<br />
Kluge Ruhe Foundation, University of Virginia, U.S.A<br />
Columbus University, Georgia. U.S.A<br />
City Lending Library, Melbourne<br />
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SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING<br />
2005 Stumbling Into Dreamtime, Arena 79, Oct/Nov pp 44-45<br />
2003 Hunting On The Sabbath, Overlander, Spring issue no 72 PP70-72<br />
1997 Elegy UTS Magazine, Nov <br />
1996 Transcendental Landscape Revisited Oz Arts, Issue No 13<br />
Towards a Realism, Conference Paper at Wijay Na? (NT Museum) <br />
1994 Scottish Narratives of the Centre Oz Arts, Issue No.11<br />
1993 Only Yesterday Oz Arts, Issue No.5, p.60.<br />
1993 John ANDERSON: The Figurative Tradition, Catalogue notes, Mornington <br />
Regional Gallery.<br />
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO THE ARTIST<br />
2008 Divining Moment in Cultural History, Rex Butler, The Australian<br />
2008 Homesickness, Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture, Traudi Allen, <br />
MacMillan<br />
2007 The Disaster of Aboriginal Australia, Phillip Batty, essay in Even As We <br />
Speak<br />
2006 The Sound of the Sky: the Northern Territory in Australian Art, Daena Murray<br />
2005 Crash Sites, Sylvia Kleinert Art Link vol.25 pp 30-35<br />
2005 Naked In Alice, Barry Hill Arena Magazine no 75.pp36-38 (Front &amp; Rear <br />
Covers)<br />
2004 The Makers Julia Copeland July 23rd on Radio National<br />
2004- The Colour of Rupture, Robert Nelson The Age, June 30th<br />
2004 Rod Moss’s Royal Portraits Rex Butler Australian Art Collector 28 pp98-101<br />
2004 Catalogue 2004 National Gallery of Victoria, p33 &amp; p173<br />
2001 Once upon a Time in the Centre, Eyeline Summer Edition. P44 Alison Lee<br />
1999 Artist breaks New Ground Kelly Chapman Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, <br />
Georgia<br />
1996 Peripheral Visions Charles Green P130<br />
1995 Brush Power John McDonald SMH 21 Oct Spectrum 15<br />
1994 Rethinking Regionalism Terry Smith Art in Australia, .<br />
1994 Purity Calls May Be Paternalistic, John McDonald, Sydney Morning <br />
Herald, March<br />
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