Author: Rod Gray
Rod is a painter and printmaker based in Melbourne Australia.
Forest : The Last Stand
Black Sparks Auction
LindenNewArt Postcard Show 2020
Linden Postcard Show 2019-2020
BirdFireHuman
This work, Updraft, is part of a project I’ve commenced examining fire in it’s role as a catalyst for transformation in the environment. Fire profoundly affects the human and animal populations in cycles of destruction and regeneration. This has long been the orbit of my artwork but over the coming year I plan to go much further into the ‘haze’ of fire and it’s environmental, mythological, and creative resonance. In this process I propose to simulate and reflect on this catalytic activity in a large range of works spanning sculpture, artist books, fire effigy videos and paintings.
BirdFireHuman will map a Human-Animal convergence. This fire-fusing of Bird-Human DNA constitutes a fictional pseudo-science: OrnithAnthroPyrocology , the hypothesis of the proposal…more to come.

Linden Postcard Show 2019-2020
TabulaRasa

Oil on Canvas 2018
41 x 41cm
Thinking of the mythic almost alchemical potential of the world’s most vital books. How they get burnt, and also etch, burning into the mind’s eye never to be forgotten.
On exhibition in IMAGE AND TEXT the Mildura Writer’s Festival Art Exhibition at The Art Vault
Open July 17