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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.
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Exhibitions and Prizes
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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 |
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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.
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