Artist Rod Moss grew up in Melbourne, heading to Alice Springs in 1984. The burnished colours of Central Australia and its Indigenous culture have informed his art ever since.
His first book, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist’s Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country (UQP, 2010), won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Northern Territory Book of the Year. His most recent book is One Thousand Cuts: Life and Art in Central Australia (UQP).
His relationship with the Indigenous community is unique, based on decades of friendship and trust, and he paints and writes about them with their permission and participation.