2022 Small Equipment Grant
Genre: Visual Arts

Rocket is a narrative surrealist artist and illustrator working out of a private studio in Geelong, Australia. Their work is inspired deeply by nature and experiences of the strange, peculiar and anomalous.

They explore different dreamscapes and create works with layered meanings that pertain to either personal experiences and influences, or the perspective leant to them vicariously through others.

Rocket’s aim is to create these images in such a way that it challenges the viewer to unravel them, or to try and find their own individualised meaning from what is presented in the work. The work is often sensitive and delicately rendered in graphite to communicate these messages.

They also use their art as a way to escape from the world that so many of us are swept up in. They create their own places; where it is safe to be different and where you are the creator of your own world.