Rhoda Roberts - Queen of the Night

At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, Rhoda Roberts whipped up a Creation Storm over Sydney Harbour, heralding in 2009 for a watching world. It’s the latest international hallmark event for our leading Indigenous creative director.

With an amazing catalogue of work to her name, Rhoda has led the way on the Indigenous arts scene, particularly for large scale hallmark events. Yet she maintains that throughout her career, the driving force has simply been the conviction ‘to put us out there’.

Now she can add creative director of the 2008 Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks celebrations to the list, one of the biggest and most watched New Year’s pyrotechnic shows anywhere in the world.