Contemporary Artist | 2024 Artist in Residence

Simon Rozsa’s practice explores the intersection between painterly language and digital form. His ongoing project, The Endless Image Series, extends the collage principle to question the overflow and impermanence of digital imagery. Layering paint, digital print, drawing, and adhesive vinyl, Rozsa constructs intricate surfaces that blur the line between material and virtual space.

Through erasure, repetition, and pattern, his works examine how meaning shifts within our image-saturated world, each composition acting as both a standalone piece and part of a generative continuum.

A graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (BFA), and UNSW School of Art & Design (MFA, Research), Rozsa’s work reflects a deep engagement with the “technological sublime”, a space where language, iconography, and digital immediacy merge into new visual narratives.

During his residency in Licuala, Rozsa developed a focused series of paper-based studies exploring the tactile and structural foundations of his broader practice. These works served as experimental blueprints investigating surface, layering, and spatial rhythm that later informed the construction of his larger aluminium compositions produced in his Sydney studio.

Immersed in the dense jungle landscape and rhythmic geometries of Sri Lanka’s natural environment, Rozsa drew inspiration from the organic repetition, decay, and regeneration found within the surrounding terrain. The interplay between vegetation, light, and structure became a living reference for his ongoing exploration of form mirroring the layered and generative qualities at the core of his visual language.

This period of residency offered a contemplative space for material inquiry and cross-sensory observation, bridging the immediacy of handmade collage with the industrial precision of his later works.