Ian Dodd and Rachel Carroll

Throughout the year, the Rosby Cellar Door and Gallery exhibits sculpture and hanging works from a range of emerging and established artists.

This exhibition brings together the sculptural and two-dimensional practices of Ian Dodd and Rachel Carroll, offering a thoughtful dialogue between abstraction, material, and the lived experience of landscape.

Working primarily in stone and wood, Ian Dodd creates tactile, abstract forms that resist fixed interpretation. His sculptures and drawings are shaped by subjective associations rather than logical systems, inviting viewers to move around the work, to look closely, and to form their own meanings. Grounded in traditional craftsmanship, Dodd's practice values surface, touch, and the quiet intensity of form—art that unsettles certainty while offering moments of personal reflection.

Rachel Carroll's expressive paintings are deeply informed by place and environmental awareness. With a practice spanning more than two decades, Carroll paints landscapes that endure—bringing the "bush to the city" and encouraging connection to the natural world. Her work, increasingly abstract yet firmly rooted in landscape, reflects years of travelling, camping, and painting on Country across Australia, from the Murray–Darling Basin to Arrernte Country.

Together, Dodd and Carroll present works that ask us to slow down, look again, and reconnect—with material, with place, and with ourselves.