Art Of Roscoe

A Working Studio in Rundle Mall

Art Of Roscoe is located at Lot 14, Regent Arcade on Rundle Mall in Adelaide, SA 5000. It operates as both a working studio and exhibition space. You'll find it right where the shopping and art crowd converges, making it a natural spot to stumble across while wandering the city centre.

The gallery sits in the thick of Regent Arcade's foot traffic, which is exactly the point. Rather than tucking itself away in a gallery precinct, it puts actual Australian art in front of people going about their day. Since Roscoe Shelton works in the studio regularly, you've got a decent chance of catching the painting process happening live. He spends time painting out in the Australian landscape, so the work on display changes with his trips.

Australian Outback and Coastal Landscapes

This gallery centres on Australian landscapes. The paintings focus on light, geology, and the raw character of the land itself. You'll find works of Arkaroola in South Australia, coastal pieces from Broome in Western Australia through to Cactus Beach, and inland scenes spanning decades of travel. Roscoe spent years running Flinders Camping and later drove across the outback with the Michigan Solar Car Team, exploring South Australia and the Northern Territory. That time spent in the landscape directly shaped his work. The paintings depict the outback as it genuinely is: unforgiving, then suddenly striking when the light hits right.

Much of the work centres on Central Australia, the West MacDonnell Ranges, Palm Valley, and country west of Alice Springs. Roscoe paints with careful attention to colour and reflection, drawing from Albert Namatjira's desert paintings but developing his own approach. His work captures morning and evening light hitting cliff faces, desert clouds after rare rain, and the fleeting beauty of water cutting through ancient gorges. The seascapes work similarly, using colour and reflection in shallow coastal waters and around headlands. Art Of Roscoe, Adelaide, SA 5000.

Resident and Guest Artists

Patrick McGirr paints here as a resident artist, doing photo realism work with seriously impressive technical chops. His pieces hit you straight away. Lisa Barter's also based here, painting Australian landscapes. She knows how to nail light and form. Li Peng rounds out the lineup as a photographer, shooting aerials of Kati-Thanda that get printed onto aluminium and stainless steel. Those metal prints sit alongside the more traditional canvas work and give the space a nice contrast.

The gallery carries work from the Art of Roscoe private collection too, including high-quality reproductions from The Clarice Beckett Collection. Some of those pieces have shown at the Art Gallery of South Australia and The Geelong Art Gallery. You can now grab photographic canvas reproductions in their original sizes. So you've got Roscoe's landscapes, pieces by the other artists, and reprints all in one space. It's a decent spread across different eras and styles of Australian art.

Regular Exhibitions and Accessible Art Formats

The gallery rotates its shows every four to six weeks, keeping things from getting stale for regulars and giving potential buyers a proper look before committing. When Roscoe heads out for fieldwork, the place shuts down temporarily. That's just how it operates, and frankly it makes sense: the time spent painting outdoors is exactly why the work is worth seeing in the first place.

Beyond Original Works: Prints, Reproductions and Cards

Art of Roscoe shifts beyond just selling originals. They stock prints and greeting cards featuring Roscoe's work and Clarice Beckett reproductions. You'll find prints of Shelley Beach at Manly in New South Wales, studies from Arkaroola, and the Birkenhead Bridge painting. They offer photographic canvas reproductions of the historic works in their original sizes, or as smaller print formats. The whole thing's kept simple: you can grab something that matches what the gallery's about, whether that's a museum-quality original or an affordable card, and the craftsmanship stays solid across the board.