Welcome to my site.
I started my visual journey as a children’s book author illustrator back in the 1980’s producing over 50 books - google: Rodney McRae.
In the 1990’s I experimented with photography exhibiting my images at the Australian Centre for Photography ACP in Sydney and in several publications and twice as a finalist in the Blake Prize for Religious Art -2005 & 2006.
These past 5 years I have been exploring sculpture and installation art,
being a finalist in the Wynne Prize for Australian landscape/figurative sculpture, Art Gallery of NSW in 2007 & 2010; the Fishers Ghost Art Prize in 2007 & 2009; Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi in 2008 and 2011; and my first major solo show of sculpture “The Heart of the Matter’ at King Street Gallery on William in 2010.
My principal area of investigation remains how art can influence and reinforce the environment and climate change debate. I draw on my knowledge and interest in taxidermy working with ethically sourced specimens as diverse as Polar Bear, Zebra, Lion, Lamb, fox, Penguin, insects, skeletons and plant material to create installations to challenge human perceptions of the nature world and the non human species that inhabit it.
One day I hope to make a difference!
16+ If you are under 16 or are easily offended I advise you not to proceed! Whilst my work is never designed to offend, some of the content may be challenging to some viewers.
