• Bio
    • Veiled Pleasures (2022)
    • Ideas of Home (2019)
    • Bruised Food: Art Action and Ecology in Asia - A Living Laboratory (2019)
    • Secret Interiors (2018)
    • Hyphenated (2018)
    • Where Here is Elsewhere (2016)
    • The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Inheritance (2016)
    • Shimmering Spaces II (2013)
    • Shimmering Spaces III (2013)
    • 2013 Castlemaine State Festival - Biennial Periscope (2013)
    • Here with You (2011)
    • Wall Works and Other Projects (2010)
    • Something in the Air (2010)
    • Secret Files from the Working Men's College (2010)
    • Plays and Wins: the time it takes (2009)
    • Possible Worlds (2007)
    • Little Thoughts Secret Pictures (2007)
    • Neutral Readings (2002)
    • Memory and Slowness (1998)
    • Masala Mix: Opening up the Anglo - Indian Tiffin (2019)
    • The Billboard Project (2018)
    • Holding Hands (2018)
    • The Ascension (2018)
    • A Golden Circle and Graphite Orb (2016 - 2018)
    • How much does your history weigh? ...(2016)
    • Letting things be what they are (2016)
    • Between Dreaming and Dying (2015)
    • Closeness and Distance (2015)
    • Bespoke (2013)
    • P.O.S.H. (2013)
    • Elsewhere (2013)
    • Reading from Both Side (2013)
    • A.E.I.O.U. (2013)
    • Rumour (2013)
    • Standard English (2013)
    • Somersault (2013)
    • Trade (2013)
    • Eat! My Son (2013)
    • Curtain (2012)
    • Brad (2010)
    • The Colonial Garden (2010)
    • Archipelago (2009-2010)
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    • 2021 - 2024 (shaped paintings)
    • 2020 - 2022
    • 2018 - 2019
    • 2010 - 2017
    • 2006 - 2009
    • 2000 - 2005
    • 1996 - 1999
    • 1991 - 1995
    • 1987 - 1990
    • 1985 - 1986
    • Shimmering spaces
    • Plays and Wins
    • Possible Worlds
    • Shimmering Spaces: Art and Anglo Indian Experiences
  • contact
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Rhett D'Costa

  • Bio
  • Exhibitions
    • Veiled Pleasures (2022)
    • Ideas of Home (2019)
    • Bruised Food: Art Action and Ecology in Asia - A Living Laboratory (2019)
    • Secret Interiors (2018)
    • Hyphenated (2018)
    • Where Here is Elsewhere (2016)
    • The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Inheritance (2016)
    • Shimmering Spaces II (2013)
    • Shimmering Spaces III (2013)
    • 2013 Castlemaine State Festival - Biennial Periscope (2013)
    • Here with You (2011)
    • Wall Works and Other Projects (2010)
    • Something in the Air (2010)
    • Secret Files from the Working Men's College (2010)
    • Plays and Wins: the time it takes (2009)
    • Possible Worlds (2007)
    • Little Thoughts Secret Pictures (2007)
    • Neutral Readings (2002)
    • Memory and Slowness (1998)
  • Projects
    • Masala Mix: Opening up the Anglo - Indian Tiffin (2019)
    • The Billboard Project (2018)
    • Holding Hands (2018)
    • The Ascension (2018)
    • A Golden Circle and Graphite Orb (2016 - 2018)
    • How much does your history weigh? ...(2016)
    • Letting things be what they are (2016)
    • Between Dreaming and Dying (2015)
    • Closeness and Distance (2015)
    • Bespoke (2013)
    • P.O.S.H. (2013)
    • Elsewhere (2013)
    • Reading from Both Side (2013)
    • A.E.I.O.U. (2013)
    • Rumour (2013)
    • Standard English (2013)
    • Somersault (2013)
    • Trade (2013)
    • Eat! My Son (2013)
    • Curtain (2012)
    • Brad (2010)
    • The Colonial Garden (2010)
    • Archipelago (2009-2010)
  • Paintings
    • 2025
    • 2021 - 2024 (shaped paintings)
    • 2020 - 2022
    • 2018 - 2019
    • 2010 - 2017
    • 2006 - 2009
    • 2000 - 2005
    • 1996 - 1999
    • 1991 - 1995
    • 1987 - 1990
    • 1985 - 1986
  • Catalogues/Essays
    • Shimmering spaces
    • Plays and Wins
    • Possible Worlds
  • PhD
    • Shimmering Spaces: Art and Anglo Indian Experiences
  • contact

These artworks were made between 1987 - 1990 during my Master’s (by Research) program at RMIT University. The title of my research was, The Interaction between Spontaneous Processes and Intuitive Imagery.  

(Documentation of other works cannot be located at this time)

View fullsize   Alchemy   Lithograph  53 x 61 cm  1987
View fullsize   Sea of Organisms   Acrylic polymer, oil paint on canvas  137 x 183 cm  1987
View fullsize   Up Stream   Sand, plaster, enamel paint, acrylic polymer on canvas  152 x 167 cm  1987
View fullsize  Birth of Organisms II  Acrylic polymer, oil paint on canvas  167 x 183 cm  1987
View fullsize  Williamstown Beach  Acrylic polymer, oil paint on canvas  213 x 167 cm  1987
View fullsize   Birth of Organism  (diptych)   Acrylic polymer, enamel paint, oil paint on canvas  183 x 244 cm  1988
View fullsize   Entering  (diptych)  Acrylic polymer, paper, oil paint on masonite  183 x 244 cm  1988
View fullsize   Aura   Charcoal, acrylic polymer, oil paint on canvas  167 x 213 cm  1989
View fullsize   A Box with Two Vessels  Displaced    Pigment, carpet, acrylic polymer on plywood  122 x 244 cm  1989
View fullsize   A Moment in Concentration   Acrylic polymer, varnish on plywood  122 x 244 cm  1989
View fullsize   Myth, Truth, Legend Lies  (diptych)  Aluminium, lead, paper, acrylic polymer on linen  198 x 366 cm  1989
View fullsize   Resurrection  (in two parts)  Wood, straw, canvas, acrylic polymer  249 x 234 cm  1989
View fullsize   Painting for Italo Calvino  (diptych)   Charcoal, oil paint, acrylic polymer on canvas  183 x 305 cm  1989
View fullsize   Flux + Reason   Photographs, lead, acrylic polymer on linen  198 x 335 cm  1990
View fullsize   Fossil Painting    Acrylic polymer, talc powder, pigment, ceramic, wood, paper on canvas  218 x 167 cm  1990
View fullsize   The Acheron  (in two parts)  Charcoal, acrylic polymer, mirror, wood on canvas  178 x 224 cm  1990
View fullsize   Ark of Eternity  (triptych)  Oil paint, bitumen, paper, acrylic polymer, shellac, lead, straw on metal panels mounted on plywood  158 x 356 cm  1990
View fullsize   The God Ship  (triptych)  Aluminium, charcoal, oil stick, acrylic polymer on canvas with wood frame  175 x 330 cm  1990
View fullsize   Attachment to the Empty Crate (Khoka)  (in three parts)  Sand, acrylic polymer, on canvas and plywood with found sticks  198 x 330 cm  1990
View fullsize   The Ascension  (in two parts)  Straw, soil, sand, metal, wood, oil paint, acrylic polymer on plywood  244 x 248 cm  1990
View fullsize   Untitled    Acrylic, straw, lead, steel, photographs on wood  46 x 231 x 18  1990
View fullsize   Painting for Arthur Rimbaud   aluminium foil, rope, acrylic polymer on paper with wood attachment  80 x 241 cm  1990
View fullsize   Observing Weather Patterns…   Steel plate, tape, paper, aluminium foil, charcoal on paper  107 x 79 cm  1990
View fullsize   Antilia   Aluminium foil, paper, charcoal on paper  107 x 79 cm  1990
View fullsize   Random Sense   Acrylic polymer, photograph on paper  71 x 102 cm  1990
View fullsize   Essence   Acrylic on paper with wood  173 x 122 cm  1990
View fullsize   Calvino   Tissue paper, shellac, acrylic polymer on paper  71 x 102 cm  1990

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