Roderick Anderson​

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Roderick Anderson is a largely self taught artist based in Perth, Western Australia.

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He graduated from the University of Western Australia majoring in Classics.

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He has painted in Perth since the mid 1960s and exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and been a winner of the Joondalup Art Prize.

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He also studied Fine Arts at WAIT and attended drawing courses at Canberra, Claremont, and Perth Technical Colleges.

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He participated in a portrait painting workshop at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto, Canada in 2016 and studied portrait painting techniques with Robin Eley at the Art Academy in Adelaide in 2018.

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His varied career includes eight years as the Curator of the Robert Holmes a Court Art Collection; six years at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and was its first Registrar of Collections; an Art Critic for the Western Mail Newspaper; and an art adviser and consultant to the Western Australian State government. He also served as a Member of the Perth Zoological Gardens Board overseeing many aspects of the design of the Zoo Masterplan, and as a Member of the Western Australian Museum Board.

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Roderick was also a founding member of the Western Australian Maritime Heritage Association. A long time specialised model boat builder, he has a model on display in the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

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He works mainly in oil paints, in a non-abstract and vaguely traditional manner.