Rod Moss

Rod Moss grew up in Melbourne, completing his schooling in Boronia and gaining Secondary Art Teaching qualifications. Moss was invited to teach in the avant garde, experimental Brinsley Road school that emerged in Melbourne during the early 1970s. After a year’s interlude in West Virginia, teaching at John G Bennett’s school following the principles of Armenian thaumaturge and philosopher George Gurdjieff, Moss relocated to central Australia, where he has lived since 1984. Moss lectured, painted and drew at the southern campus of Charles Darwin University until his returement in 2008.

He is an award-winning artist and writer. His first memoir, The Hard Light of Day, received the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Norther Territory Book of the Year. His second, A Thousand Cuts, won the 2014 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory Book of the Year Award. Moss exhibits in Alice Springs, Brisbane, Melbourne and the USA.