Roger is a graduate (English and French) of Trinity College, Dublin, and worked for several years as a secondary school teacher.

He began woodturning in 1992.

Exhibitions and Prizes
2010 Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Irish Craft Portfolio at National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Kenny Gallery, Galway; Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin
2010 Craftboston (International Invited Artist)
2010 SOFA Chicago
2009 Gifted, Wexford Arts Centre
2009 Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon
2009 Turning Wood into Art 2009, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2009 Origin, The London Craft Fair
2008 Turning Wood into Art 2008, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2008 A Perfect Marriage: Wood and Color, a Collectors of Wood Art exhibition at SOFA Chicago
2008 Origin: The London Craft Fair
2008 Craftboston (International Invited Artist)
2007 SOFA New York, USA (represented by del Mano Gallery)
2007 Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Turning Wood into Art 2007 at the Sarah Myerscough Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
2007 Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Origin: The London Craft Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
2007 Exhibition in Eblana Gallery, Dublin
2007 SOFA Chicago, USA (represented by del Mano Gallery and the National Craft Gallery, Ireland)
2007 Crafts Council of Ireland 50% award, to assist in development of new jewellery range.
2006 Selected to exhibit at Origin, The London Craft Fair in Somerset House, 10-15 October
2006 Cabinet de Curiosités, Galerie Embargo, Paris, France
2006 Celtic Influences in The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, 15 July - 9 September
2006 Exhibited in Turning Wood into Art at the Sarah Myerscough Fine Art Gallery, London; also at Collect 2006 at the V&A Museum
2006 Collect 2006 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (represented by Sarah Myerscough Fine Art)
2006 SOFA Chicago 2006 (represented by the National Craft Gallery, Ireland)
2005 Elected to board of Sculptors’ Society of Ireland.
2005 Exhibited in Forty Shades of Green, a Crafts Council of Ireland exhibition for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture (Cork; Memphis, Tennessee; Kaunas, Lithuania)
2005 Exhibited in 00-04 Review in the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2005 Collectors Ireland at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
2005 Winner of 1st prize (Woodturning) and the Irish Woodturners' Guild award in the National Crafts Competition at the Royal Dublin Society
2005 Solo exhibition in Leitrim Design House, Carrick-on-Shannon
2005 Selected to exhibit at Chelsea Crafts Fair
2004 Selected to exhibit at Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
2004 Fine Forms, a joint exhibition with Liam Flynn and Glenn Lucas, in the Éigse Arts Festival in Carlow
2003 Group exhibition in the William Frank Gallery in Dublin
2002-04 Exhibited in Of Colour in Craft, a Crafts Council of Ireland touring exhibition (various venues in Ireland; Columbus State University in Georgia, USA)
2001 Winner of the Irish Woodturners' Guild award in the RDS National Crafts Competition
2000 Winner of the Irish Woodturners' Guild award in the RDS National Crafts Competition
2000 Winner of the overall prize at the Irish Woodturners' Guild annual national seminar
2000 Exhibited in Containers at the Galway Arts Festival
1999 Exhibited in Wood - The Beauty of Objects in Newfoundland and Ireland
1995 Exploring the Lathe, a Crafts Council of Ireland touring exhibition
1995 Eat Your Art Out in The Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Selected Collections

Irish Department of Foreign Affairs

Mrs. Mary McAleese, President of Ireland

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Columbus State University, Georgia, USA

Dublin Airport Authority

Office of Public Works, Ireland

Roger's work is also in numerous private collections

 

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In 1994-5, he was the first woodturner to participate in the Craft and Design Business Development course run by the Crafts Council of Ireland in Kilkenny.

He has been self-employed since then; his studio is at his home in Dublin.