Studio Photograph
2021
Brixton, London
Rogers’ work explores figuration in the realm of the post digital, locating himself between his mostly self built technologies and the artist’s hand to explore the ecosystem that exists between us and the emerging digital/ physical landscape.
A self built printing machine has been hacked to extrude entire blocks of clay into coils, melting and constructing wax for casting in bronze, or when fitted with a drawing utensil - allow Rogers to connect his sculptural investigations to his works on paper as the mechanical pathways become depicted in lines.
Studio Photograph
2021
Brixton, London
I'm never sure if it's the head above, or the legs below me that take me to the places I end up (What have you done with the controls?), 2021
Sanguine ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
I'm never sure if it's the head above, or the legs below me that take me to the places I end up (What have you done with the controls?), 2021
Cobalt ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
His work explores connection, dependency, and how these tendencies are mirrored into our technological networks, and then fragmented or even broken as they translate themselves into digital information, physical emotions, then back again. It is here that he establishes his relevance to the underlying ‘digital-physical’ conversion processes of 3D printing and 3D scanning. Rogers will then introduce mark making, glitches, and accidents, working to effect on his artworks, the same processes of distortion that happens as content is created, retweeted, and repeated amongst us.
It is here that he is testing the emotional bandwidth of our emerging networks.
There was a hot air balloon searching the sea for you, so I tied you to the sky (Rare unicorns), 2021
Sanguine ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
There was a hot air balloon searching the sea for you, so I tied you to the sky (Rare unicorns), 2021
Sanguine ink etching and aquatint on paper.
280 x 381mm
There was a hot air balloon searching the sea for you, so I tied you to the sky (Rare unicorns), 2021
Cobalt ink etching and aquatint on paper
280 x 381mm
These etchings serve as a visual investigation into the workflow that exists between hand and machine. They work to imitate the same language that exists amongst us, one in which abandons a purely technological vision in pursuit of studying the way we eyeball retina displays, eat Honest Burgers, drink Innocent smoothies, and type into slate grey MacBooks. A certain amalgamation of a world heading towards the digital future, but keeping the physical world at it’s fingertips - the digital/ physical landscape.
Detail video of hand colouring 'There was a hot air balloon searching the sea for you, so I tied you to the sky (Rare unicorns)'
2021
Brixton, London
Detail of 'I wish I was level headed enough to balance the both of us (twins)'
2021
Brixton, London
I wish I was level headed enough to balance the both of us (twins), 2021
Sanguine ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
Visualisation of hand coloured etchings - installation view
2021
London
Watching a huge machine carry such a delicate etching needle over a small copper plate, drawing into the film-thin layer of beeswax on it’s surface, it begins drawing a face - the jaw dislocates as I interrupt the process, he becomes tired, yawning maybe. It moves onto drawing a pair of eyes, I offset the printing plate, his eyes now resemble two testicles staring down at the screen - swipe swipe - always thinking with their dicks apparently.
Detail video of mechanical engraving process
2021
Brixton, London
Cobalt and Sanguine ink etchings with aquatint
2020-2021
Detail of etched copper circuit board
2021
Brixton, London
Etched copper circuit boards
2020-2021
A study in the possibility of a man taking so much on the chin, that his jawline blocked the feelings falling out of his mind (Rock Drill / Mandibular Man), 2021
Sanguine ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
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Studio Photograph
2021
Brixton, London
Detail of 'A study in the possibility of a man taking so much on the chin, that his jawline blocked the feelings falling out of his mind (Rock Drill / Mandibular Man)
2021
Brixton, London
Grafter (A study for boys operating big machines wearing dresses), 2021
Sanguine ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
Detail video of hand colouring 'Grafter (A study for boys operating big machines wearing dresses)'
2021
Brixton, London
Grafter (A study for boys operating big machines wearing dresses), 2021
Sanguine ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
Grafter (A study for boys operating big machines wearing dresses), 2021
Cobalt ink etching, oil paint, and pencil on paper.
280 x 381mm
Detail video of copper plate engraving and printing process
2021
Brixton, London
