James Rogers

  • Work
    • Toowoomba - 1977/80
    • Lilyfield Rd - 1981/84
    • Balmain 1984-86
    • Car Parks 1986
    • Newtown - 1987/89
    • Works on Paper - 1988/1992
    • Stanmore - 1991
    • Stanmore - 1993
    • The Raft - 1994/95
    • South Tamworth - 1995
    • Wing and a Prayer - 1997
    • The Fallers - 1998
    • Rock Opera - 1999
    • Painting - 1999/2001
    • Walcha - 1999/2002
    • Walcha Street Furniture - 1999/2002
    • Song Cycle - 2000/2001
    • Time and Tide - 2003
    • Earlwood - 2004
    • Syncopated Beach - 2005
    • Aloha Radio - 2007
    • Crossings, Melbourne - 2008
    • Steel - 2008
    • Devotions, Melbourne - 2010
    • Steel - 2010
    • Steel - 2011
  • Sculpture By The Sea
    • Hokusai's Child - 2011
    • Big Bather - 2010
    • Obbligato - 2006
    • Syncopated Ocean - 2005
    • On Vocation - 2002
    • Site Pacific - 2001
    • Surfing Spectacle - 2000
    • Main Brace - 1999
    • Semi Breve - 1998
    • Big Dumper - 1997
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  • Born Quirindi, NSW, 1956

    Education

    1974 The National Art School, Randwick Technical College. First Year Industrial Design Diploma

    1977-79 Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Diploma of Creative Arts (Visual). Sculpture major, music minor.

    1981 East Sydney Technical College, six months post certificate in sculpture.

    Employment

    1987 - 2009 Teacher of Sculpture part time, National Art School

    Solo Exhibitions

    1985 Coventry Gallery, Sydney

    1987 Coventry Gallery, Sydney

    1989 Coventry Gallery, Sydney

    1991 Coventry Gallery, Sydney

    1993 Coventry Gallery, Sydney

    1999 The Perfect Storm Old School Gallery, Walcha

    Rock Opera Legge Gallery

    2001 Sometime Last Summer Legge Gallery

    2003 Time and Tide Legge Gallery

    2005 Syncopated Beach Legge Gallery

    2007 Aloha Radio Legge Gallery

    2008 Folk Songs Legge Gallery

    Crossings Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

    2010 Steel Sculpture Watters Gallery

    Devotions Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
    Cover Versions Walcha Gallery of Art

    2011 Pulse Watters Gallery

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    1979 Graduate Exhibition Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Queensland

    1980 Artists in the Community Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Queensland

    Two–Man Show VAG,Toowoomba

    1981 Studio Access Project Sculpture at T & G Tower, Sydney

    Two–Man Show Art. Empire. Industry., Sydney

    1982 Works on Paper Art. Empire. Industry., Sydney

    Seven Sculptors Art. Empire. Industry., Sydney

    1984 First for '84 Coventry Gallery

    1985 Blake Prize Blaxland Gallery, Sydney

    1986 Blake Prize Blaxland Gallery, Sydney

    Light Sculptures Mori Gallery, Sydney

    1989 Sculptures at the Table Crafts Centre Gallery, Sydney

    1990 Where are They Now? Queensland Culture Centre

    Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales

    1991 Coventry Diary Coventry Gallery

    Summer School Teacher Grafton Regional Gallery
    Wynne Prize: Selected Works Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
    Agape King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
    Sculptures in the Cell Block National Art School, Sydney

    1993 Celebrating Sydney Coventry Gallery

    1994 Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales

    1995 Guitar Shaped World Tamworth Gallery

    The Artists of Hill End Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring regional galleries

    1996 Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales

    1997 Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales

    It's a Box 11 Defiance Gallery, Newtown
    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    Sculpture 9 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
    Miniatures Defiance Gallery

    1998 Salon des Refuses Wynne Prize, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

    Pas D'Accrochage En Publique National Art School
    Our Collection, The Artists of Hill End Bathurst Regional Gallery
    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    The Defiance 6 Defiance Gallery

    1999 Salon des Refuses Wynne Prize, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

    Maquette Show Old School Gallery, Walcha
    Sculpture of Wildwood Mudgee
    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    Sculpture Eleven Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
    Legge Gallery 10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery

    2000 Sculpture by the Sea Bondi

    Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
    Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
    Miniatures Defiance Gallery
    Half Metre Square National Art School, Sydney

    2001 Sculpture from the Sea Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    Legge Gallery Painters Use Atelier Artists' Acrylics Legge Gallery
    Miniatures Defiance Gallery, Sydney
    Willoughby City Art Prize Willoughby
    Sculpture in the City Martin Place
    Group Show Legge Gallery

    2002 Sculpture 2002 Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery and Legge Gallery

    Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
    Miniatures Defiance Gallery, Sydney
    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery

    2003 Sculpture 2003 Legge Gallery

    Walcha City of Art New Contemporaries, Sydney
    Walcha City of Art Old School Gallery, Walcha, NSW
    Sculpture XV Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
    Summer Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
    Beneath the Surface Tamworth City Art Gallery

    2004 Sculpture 2004 Legge Gallery

    Group Show Legge Gallery
    The Visibility of Practice: recent work by a selection of National Art School academic staff Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney
    Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne

    2005 Sculpture 2005 Legge Gallery

    Post Cards National Art School, Sydney
    New England Objectives II New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    2005: The Year in Art S.H. Ervin Gallery
    Summer Show Legge Gallery

    2006 Group Show Legge Gallery

    Současná australská tvorba Galerie uměnǐ Karlovy Vary, Letohrádek Ostrov, Czech Republic
    Large Sculpture Legge Gallery
    Drawcard 2006 National Art School, Sydney
    Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
    Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
    Summer Show Legge Gallery
    New England Objectives III New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

    2007 Small Sculpture Legge Gallery

    Old Fruit Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
    Art Sydney 07 Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park, Sydney
    Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery

    2008 Small Sculpture Legge Gallery

    Melbourne Art Fair 08 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne

    2009 Sculpture Show Legge Gallery

    Willoughby Art Prize
    Sculpture in the Gaol Trail Bay, NSW
    Christmas Show MossGreen Gallery, Melbourne
    Watters Gallery Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery

    2010 Art Month Sydney Watters Gallery

    Melbourne Art Fair 10 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
    Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
    Devotions, New England Regional Art Museum 2011
    Raw Jam, Walcha Gallery of Art
    Abstraction,Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
    Three Wynne Sculptures, New England Regioal Art Museum
    Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
    Collections

    Artbank

    Campbelltown City Art Gallery

    Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

    Holmes a Court Collection

    Kerry Stokes Collection

    Macquarie University

    Maitland Regional Art Gallery

    New Children's Hospital, Westmead

    R.A.S Showgrounds, Homebush

    Star City, Pyrmont

    Tamworth Regioal Art Gallery

    University College of Southern Queensland

    University of New South Wales

    University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown

    University of Technology, Sydney

    Walcha Shire Council

    Awards and Prizes

    2006 The Sydney Morning Herald Represented Artist Prize, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi.

    2011 'Helen Lemoriere Scholarship', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi

    Commissions

    1985 'Windvane Chimney' for the Palm Beach House. Architect Philip Cox

    1986 'Campus Cars' Mobiles for the Macarthur Institute of Advanced Education, Campbelltown. Architect Philip Cox.

    1987 Figure head for the flagship 'Sirius' for the Australian Bicentenary Traveling Exhibition, Browns Mill.

    1990 Panel 'Gates' for Dean Olding's Recital Room, Newtown. Architect Mikhail Molysov.

    1991 Monumental version of the 'Warriors' trophy for Windfield Cup Grand Final Entertainment, NSW Rugby League.

    1994 'The Raft', the new Children's Hospital, Westmead. Architect Lawrence Nield and Partners.

    Children's playground, McHattan Park, Walcha, New South Wales. Walcha Shire Council.

    1995 'Upwood', South Tamworth Animal Hospital

    1997 'A Wing and a Prayer', wind sculpture for the new Sydney Casino. Architect Cox Richardson Planners and Architects

    'Aquarium' steel screen, Carey-Evans House, Vaucluse, New South Wales

    1998 'Fellers' Charles Moses Pavilion, new R.A.S. Showgrounds, Homebush. Architect Cox Richardson Planners and Architects.

    Preparation of Public Art Strategy for Moore Reserve Project. Landscape Architects Belt Collins Australia.
    Preparation of Public Art Strategy for Dee Why Town Centre. Landscape Architects McGregor Partners.

    1999 Selected artist for the development of public sculpture 'Song Cycle' for the Walcha Shire Council. Maquette installed.

    'Tollgate', Northern Entrance Sign, Walcha Shire Council.

    2001 'Song Cycle', corner Derby and Fitzroy Street, Walcha, New South Wales.

    Assistant to Street Furniture Project, Walcha Arts Council, Walcha, NSW

    2005 'Stalks', Street lighting, Walcha Shire Council, NSW

    2006 'Grevillias', Votive candelabra for St Mary's Cathedral, College Street, Sydney. Collaboration with Nick Breslin

    2007 'Devotional Candelabra' St Canice's Church, Sydney

    2011 'Dirt Music', Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW

    'Trees of Life', St Canice's Church, Sydney
    Bibliography

    Architectural Review, Spring 1995

    Dixon, Megan: 'Welcome to Walcha', HQ Magazine, February 2002

    Drury, Nevill: New Sculpture 1993, Craftsman House, 1993

    Drury, Nevill: New Art 5, Craftsman House, 1995

    Ducker, Amanda: 'Bush Regeneration', Country Style, June 2000

    Fairley, Gina: 'James Rogers at Legge Gallery', World Sculpture News, Volume 13, Number 3, Summer 2007

    Harding, Lesley: The Visibility of Practice, September 2004

    Low, Lenny Ann: Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17/7/2001

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    Stevenson, Andrew: 'Walcha, where the sheep are sheep and the artists are farmers', The Sydney Morning Herald, 27/3/2001