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Syzygy

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Field
A Place a Little Distant From Here
A Place a Little Distant From Here
Gangata's Paradise
Gangata’s Paradise
6 O'Clock And The Down
6 O’Clock And The Down
Foretelling Other Changes
Foretelling Other Changes
Fragment
Fragment
Explaining War to Children
Explaining War to Children
The Dogs Bollocks
The Dogs Bollocks

Syzygy is the momentary alignment of celestial bodies and my studio work is often about aligning and ordering different source material to create more complex narratives around contemporary themes. Chance alignments sometimes create new lines of inquiry.

These paintings are the result of a dynamic process. Surfaces are made by constantly layering new strata then physically destroying them: through sanding, scraping, tearing and chemical erosion. The resolution often retains both a tension and an ambiguity between the physical presence of the surface and the illusions of space or objects.

There remains a sense of the architectural. Norbert Lynton wrote of my work “A visit to Italy, years ago, taught him the pleasure of facades… that the street or piazza runs slap up against them often, without the hiatus of a pavement… all Rogers’ images have something architectural about them, standing up before our eyes… announcing themselves as flat objects before we feel the sensations of movement and space worked into them.”

From the ‘Syzygy’ exhibition catalogue essay: ISBN 0 903189 62 3

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About Me

Welcome to my portfolio website. There are two sections: one features a small selection of my work as a visual artist, the other a selection of successful projects that I curated, directed, led or project managed within arts development and the public realm.

Identity, place and space link these two areas of work. I draw on specific physical, historical and cultural environments either to inspire and locate my own work or to commission new projects for others.

I founded the b-side festival in 2008 and was Executive Director between 2012-20. During the same time I lectured on the BA Creative Events Management course at AUB and taught Fine Art at Weymouth College.

I moved back to Italy in 2020 and now live and work permanently in Sant' Elena, Venice, Italy.

A current CV can be downloaded from the 'About Me' page on this website.

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