Joseph Rolella

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

Joseph Rolella has exhibited his work consistently over the past twelve years, nationally and internationally. He has received several significant art awards, including the Australian Cricket Art Prize in 2011 for his painting "Cricket at Kandahar" and the Oakhill Grammar School Art Prize in 2013. Additionally, he was 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 water’s edge...