Rodda’s landscape paintings can be seen as a welcoming zone for the viewer’s personal recollections and reveries, where the landscape is a kind of scaffold upon which to hang ambiguous signposts. Although previous periods in Mark Rodda’s career have been stylistically diverse, in the past half-decade he has focused on painting imaginary landscapes. These romantic worlds feature the occasional eccentric building, but are otherwise uninhabited.
The work featured on this month’s cover is part of the Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery’s group exhibition ‘Sublime Point: The Landscape in Painting’, exploring the significant role the landscape has for Australian contemporary artists.
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Until 30 November, 2014
Sydney
Mark Rodda, Benevolent Leviathan, 2013, oil on marine ply, 35 x 50cm
Courtesy the artist and Gallery 9, Sydney
