JAMES ROGERS
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 - 2006 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
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
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 Irvin Gallery
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 Irvin
Gallery
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
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 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 Repulic
Large Sculpture Legge Gallery
Melbourne
Art Fair 2006 Royal Exhibition
Hall, Melbourne
Sculpture
by the Sea Bondi
Collections
Artbank
University
College of Southern Queensland
University
Of New South Wales
Macarthur
College of Advanced Education
Macquarie
University
Walcha Shire
Council
Campbelltown
City Art Gallery
Holmes a
Court Collection
Star City
New
Children’s Hospital, Westmead
R.A.S
Showgrounds, Homebush
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
2006 'Grevillias'
Votive candelabra for St Mary's Cathedral, College Street, Sydney.
Collaboration with Nick Breslin
Architectural Review, Spring
1995
Ducker, Amanda: 'Bush Regeneration', Country Style,
June 2000
Drury, Nevill: New Sculpture 1993, Craftsman House, 1993
Drury, Nevill: New Art 5, Craftsman
House, 1995
Harding,
Lesley: The Visibility of Practice,
September 2004
Dixon,
Megan: 'Welcome to Walcha', HQ
Magazine, February 2002
Low, Lenny Ann: Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17/7/2001
Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian,
May 1987
Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian,
May 1989
Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian,
May 1991
Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian,
April 1993
Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian,
April 1994
McDonald, John:
Walcha City of Art, May 2003
McDonald, John:
'Art Attacks', The Sydney Morning Herald,14/01/2006
McDonald,
John: 'A reality Czech from Walcha', The
Sydney Morning Herald,
3-4/06/2006
Rumley, Katrina: Integrating Art on Campus,
University of New South Wales, 1992
Smee,
Sebastian: ‘The Galleries’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26/10/1999
Stevenson, Andrew: 'Walcha, where the sheep are
sheep and the artists are farmers',
The Sydney Morning
Herald, 27/3/2001