Alan Rogers

I'm Alan Rogers, a multi-media visual artist born in South Yorkshire (UK), now resident in Sant' Elena, Venice, Italy.

My creative practice and career has been varied and in addition to working as an artist, I have also worked in Arts Education, Creative Events Management and as a DJ. These practises intertwine and inform each other.

I'm inspired by places where history is writ large upon archtiectural fabric, and the detritus of past civilisations is scattered throughout the present. Places like Venice, Cairo, Jodhpur, Trivandrum...

Rather than capturing a ‘moment in time’ some of these paintings represent ‘multiple times’. This is manifest both through the process of building and excavating surfaces and in the subject matter, which reveals actions though time - either man-made and natural.

I struggle with the materials, forms and colours that might define a place, until their aesthetic begins to speak back to me. The resulting dialogue defines the style of each piece, each period. The construction of the two-dimensional space, the relationship between illusion and object, has occupied me all my working life as an artist. Norbert Lynton wrote of my work:

“A visit to Italy, years ago, taught him the pleasure of facades – I t...

1984 - 1985: Post Graduate Art Teachers Certificate, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

1983 - 1984: Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

1978 - 1981: B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Exeter College of Art & Design

1977 - 1978: Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Barnsley School of Art

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2023: 'Achive of (extra) Ordinary People, Officina dea Dignità, Campo Stringari, Venice.

2013: 'Scanning Venice' Francoise Calcagno, Venice / 'Watermark' Jackson Gallery, Portland and Bridport Art Centre, Dorset

2006: 'Grammelot', Bauhaus, Dessau / 'La Prima e L’Ultimo', Padova / 'Scudo di Pietra', Paestum / 'Fra Terra e Acqua', Torcello and Altino (Venice)

2001: 'Laguna' Centro Culturale Leonardo Da Vinci / Palazzo Scotti, Treviso

1998: 'Syzygy' (Touring) Newport City Museum & Art Gallery / Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea / Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells / Rhyl Library & Exhibition Centre

1998: 'Freefall' and 'Shed' Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, U.S.A.

1995: '6 O’clock and the Down' Mehrangarh Fort & Museum, Jodhpur, India