Rob Gutteridge is the founding Director and Principal Teacher at the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism in Adelaide. He has held 28 solo exhibitions and contributed to more than 80 group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. He has received prestigious international scholarships and artist-in-residence positions to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture USA; The Thomas Laird Travelling Art Study Award France: Atelier Internationale de Seguret, France; Rimbun Dahan Year-Long Visual Artist Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; artist in residence at Red Gate, Beijing, China.

Rob has been a visual art lecturer at the Adelaide Central School of Art where he was Head of Drawing and Printmaking for several years. He is a Full member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art (London, UK). He continues to paint and draw, teach, travel, undertake professional development, and exhibit. Recently he was accepted into the Summer School of the Ilya Repin Russian Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia.

His work has been selected for exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in 2020.