Joe Rolella Australian, b. 1972

Overview

Born in Sydney in 1972, Rolella completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) in 1994 and went on to obtain a Masters in Visual Arts at the University of Western Sydney in 1998.

Joeseph Rolella has exhibited consistently for the past twelve years both nationally and internationally. Rolella has won several major art prizes including the Australian Cricket Art Prize in 2011 for the painting "Cricket at Kandahar". The Oakhill Grammer School Art Prize in 2013 as well as being selected as a semi-finalist for the prestigious Doug Moran Portrait Prize.

 

Complex and contradictory, Rolella's recent abstract paintings seek to expose a delicate equilibrium between a sense of balance and visual calm and the tumult of painterly texture and surface tension. The play of light at the waters edge...

Works
  • Joe Rolella, Acquiesce
    Joe Rolella
    Acquiesce
    Oil on canvas
    96h x 136w cm
  • Joe Rolella, Blackwood
    Joe Rolella
    Blackwood
    Oil on canvas
    136h x 96w cm
  • Joe Rolella, Fusion
    Joe Rolella
    Fusion
    Oil on canvas
    182h x 182w cm
  • Joe Rolella, Linga longa (triyptch)
    Joe Rolella
    Linga longa (triyptch)
    122h x 61w cm (x3)
  • Joe Rolella, Poolside I
    Joe Rolella
    Poolside I
    Oil on canvas
    60h x 60w cm
  • Joe Rolella, Poolside II
    Joe Rolella
    Poolside II
    Oil on canvas
    60h x 60w cm
  • Joe Rolella, Poolside III
    Joe Rolella
    Poolside III
    Oil on canvas
    60h x 60w cm
  • Joe Rolella, Wonnerup
    Joe Rolella
    Wonnerup
    Oil on canvas
    183h x 183w cm
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