Roger Murray

Having studied Fine Arts at ASA School of Arts majoring in sculpture and film, Roger Murray exhibited in early days at the ASA exhibitions and had work accepted into the Wallace Awards.

Throughout the following years Roger showed in various group exhibitions at Fisher Gallery and had short films excepted into many International film festivals. In 1995, he ended up going into the film industry and starting his own company Main Reactor, one of New Zealand’s leading props, prosthetics and make-up effects studios.

Decades on, Roger has now turned his attention back to the art world. Wielding an impressive range of technical knowledge and understanding of diverse mediums, Roger creates abstract reliefs which marry natural elements with brutalist composition and form.

Thematically, his art explore ideas surrounding the sublimity of cosmic interconnectedness and harmony of mathematical theory. From simple geometries, the sculptures grow into complex configurations which intersect, entwine, and oscillate together, meditating on the unseen forces that hold our world together and pull it apart.

Underlying the patterns and materials is palpable tension: wood bent to its breaking point, curving in endless knots and undulating surfaces which strain toward a sense of motion usually beyond the capabilities of inert material. Roger offsets this tension with fluidity of form, reflective surfaces, and calculated precision.

Roger is currently represented by Suite Gallery, Auckland.

Other links:

• Website (Suite Gallery)