Andrew Rogers, Sculptor

Andrew is a distinguished and internationally recognized artist. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures and photographs are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and has created “Rhythms of Life”, the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of 48 massive stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. The project has involved over 6,700 people in 13 countries across seven continents.

Solo exhibitions and display

Selected group exhibitions

Awards (FINALIST)

Commissions, International

Cappadocia, Turkey 2007 – 2011
Time and Space Geoglyph Park
Geoglyph Presence, 24 basalt columns 9m (30’) high
Geoglyph A Day On Earth, 31.5m x 51m x 19.5m (103′ × 167′ × 64′)
Geoglyph Listen, 14.5m (52’) tall basalt arch
Geoglyph Sentinels, 8 basalt columns, 6m (18’) high
Geoglyph Grind, 100m x 100m (328’ x 328’)
Geoglyph Strength, 100m x 50m (328’ x 165’)
Geoglyph Sustenance, 100m x 100m (328’ x 328’)
Geoglyph Siren, 65m x100m (213’ x 328’)
Geoglyph Time and Space, 24m x 16m x 5.3m (79’ x 53’ x 18’)
Geoglyph Predicting the Past, 4.2m x 1.1m x 4.7m (14’ x 3.6’ x 15.5’)
Geoglyph Yesterday Today Tomorrow, 6m (18’)
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 100m x 90m (328′ × 295′)
Geoglyph The Gift, 60m x 60m (197′ × 197′)

Utah, USA, 2010
Geoglyph Ratio, 13.5m x 13m x 2m (44′ × 42′ × 6′)

Antarctica, 2010
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 60m x 60m (197′ × 197′)

Chyulu Hills, Kenya 2010
Geoglyph Shield, 100m x 70m (328′ × 230′)
Geoglyph Lions Paw, 40m x 40m(131′ × 131′)
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 69m x 69m (226′ × 226′)

Borusan Holdings, Istanbul, Turkey 2009
Unfurling, 3.1m (10’)

Yucca Valley, USA 2008
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 50m x 50m (164′ × 164′)
Geoglyph Atlatl, 61m (200’)

Bank Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey 2008
Rhythms of Life, 5.5m (18’)

Poprad, Slovakia 2008
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 35m x 45m (115′ × 148′)
Geoglyph Sacred, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)

Jomsom, Nepal 2008
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)
Geoglyph Labyrinth, 60m x 60m (197′ × 197′)

Pokhara, Nepal 2008
Geoglyph Knot, 60m x 60m (197′ × 197′)

Rajasthan, India 2007
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 90m x 75m (295′ × 246′)
Sculpture Ratio, 8.5m x 6.5m (28′ × 21′)

Gobi Desert, China 2006
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 200m x 200m (656’. × 656′)
Geoglyph Messenger, 150m x 150m (492′ × 492′)
Geoglyph Caveman, 150 m x 150 m (492′ × 492′)

Akureyri, Iceland 2006
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)
Geoglyph Rune, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)
Geoglyph Eagle, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)

Bank One Tower, Fort Worth, Texas, USA 2006
Unfurling, 3.5m (11’ 6")

Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, USA 2006
Flora Exemplar, 4.6m (15’ 1")

Kurunegala, Sri Lanka 2005
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 60m x 60m (95′ × 197′)
Geoglyph Pride, 60m x 60m (197′ × 197′)
Sculpture Ratio, 6.5m x 6.5m (21’ 4")

City of Jerusalem, Israel 2005
Ratio, 4.5m x 5m (14’ 9″ × 16′ 5")

Bolivia, 2005
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)
Geoglyph Presence, 100m x 100m (328′ × 328′)
Geoglyph Circles, 100 m x 100 m (328′ × 328′)

Arava Desert, Israel 2004
McCallum Sculpture Ratio, 8m x 32m (262′ × 105′)

Atacama Desert, Chile 2004
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 40m x 30m (132′ × 98′)
Geoglyph The Ancients, 90m x 88m (295′ × 288′)
Geoglyph Ancient Language, 80m x 2.8m (262′ × 9′)

Arava Desert, Israel
Geoglyph Slice, 2003, 80m x 38.15m, 2003 (262′ × 125′)
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 2001, 29m x 24m, (95′ × 79′)
Geoglyph, To Life, 1999, 38m x 33m, 1999 (125′ × 108′)

Curitiba, Brazil 2002
Holocaust Memorial

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2002
Rhythms of the Metropolis, 6m (19’ 8")

Stonebriar Park Dallas, Texas, USA 2001
Rhythms of the Metropolis, 6m (19’ 8")

Presented in Vienna to Simon Wiesenthal by the
Ambassador of the United States to Vienna, Austria
for the State of the World Forum 1999
Resistance

Young Presidents’ Organization, New Zealand 1999
Rhythms of Life

Arava Regional Council, Sapir Town, Israel 1999
Geoglyph To Life, 38m x 33m (125′ × 108′)

State of the World Forum, San Francisco, USA 1999
Ripple

City of Vienna, Nussdorferstrasse, Austria 1999
Presented to the City of Vienna on behalf of State of the World Forum by the United States Ambassador to Austria
Flora Exemplar

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 1998
Artist in Residence
Transform, H 3.8m (12’.)

State of the World Forum, San Francisco, USA 1998
Critical Power

Commissions, Australia

Australian National Airport, Canberra, ACT, 2012
Perception & Reality 1

Mosman, Sydney, 2011
Flora Exemplar

McClelland Sculpture Park, Langwarrin 2010
Labyrinth The Winding Path, The Search for Truth
Stone and crushed rock 22 × 26m

East Melbourne, 2009
Unfurling
Folded

Bourke Street, Docklands, 2008
Unfurling x 4

South Yarra, Victoria, 2008
Flora Exemplar

Docklands, Victoria, 2008
Unfurling

Springvale, Victoria, 2006
Babi-Yar Memorial

Commonwealth Games 2006, Victoria
Geoglyph Bunjil, 100m x 100m (328’ x 328’)
Geoglyph Rhythms of Life, 100m x 90m (328’ x 295’)

Caulfield, Victoria, 2005
Rise, 4.6m (15’ 1")

Holocaust Memorial, Melbourne, 2005
Tomb

Presented to the President of Israel, 2005
Mother Earth

Australia/Israel Chamber of Commerce
Award – 1997, 1998, 2004 and 2007
Commerce

World Square – George Street, Sydney, NSW, 2003
Rhythms of Life
Leading

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Friends, 2001
Torch of Learning

Village Roadshow Theatres
Presentation 1998, 1999, 2002 – Melbourne Cup, Australia
Film Director, Maquette

Presented to Prime Minister John Howard
Located at Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices,Treasury Place, Melbourne, 2000
Ascend

Springvale Cemetery, Victoria, 2000
Buchenwald Memorial

Jewish Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick, Victoria, 1999
Pillars of Witness

Australian Israel Scientific Foundation
Flora Exemplar

Selected Museums, Public & Corporate collections, International

Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, USA
Archives
Rhythms of Life Land Art Project Exhibition of Photographs
106 prints

Residence of the Australian Consul General
New York, USA
Rhythms of Life, H 67cm (2’ 2")
Weightless 3, H71cm (2’ 4")

Borusan Holdings, Istanbul, Turkey
Unfurling, 3.1m (10’)

Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, USA
Flora Exemplar, H 2.2m (7’ 3")
Leading 1, H 2m (6’ 7")
Flora Exemplar, H 4.6m (15’ )

Stonebriar Park, Dallas, Texas, USA
Rhythms of the Metropolis, H 6m (19’ 8")
Flora Exemplar, H 2.2m (7’ 3")
Growing, H 4m (13’ 2")
Leading 2, H 2.2m (7’ 3")
Evolving, H 2.4m (7’ 10")
Macrocosm, H 3m (9’ 10")
Observe, H 3m (9’ 10")
Living, H 4m (13’ 2")
Balanced, H 4m (13’ 2")
Ripening, H 4m (13’ 2")
Propagating, H 4m (13’ 2")
Coil 1, H 3m (9’ 10")
Rhythms of Life, H 2.6m (8’ 6")
Growth, H 4m (13’ 2")
Organic, H 4m (13’ 2")
Breaking Out, H 3m (9ft. 10")

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Torch of Learning
Rhythms of the Metropolis, H 6m (19’ 8")

Technion – Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
(Artist in Residence)
Transform, H 3.8m (12’ 6")
Flora Exemplar

Australian Consul General’s Residence, Kobe, Japan
Rhythms of the Metropolis
Sound

Sapir, Arava, Israel
Flora Exemplar, H 2.2m (7’ 3")
To Life, H 38.5m X 33m (126′ × 10′)
Rhythms of Life, 29m x 20m (95′ × 65′)
Slice, 60m x 38m (197′ × 125′)
Ratio, 8m x 32m (26′ × 105′)

Harwood Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Running Man, H 1.5m (4’ 11")
Transitory

Hall Vineyard Inc., California, USA
Reaching Away, H 4.6m (15’)
I Dreamed, H 2.6m (8’ 6")
Flora Exemplar, H 2.2m (7’ 3")
Growing, H 2.6m (8’ 6")
Spirit, H 3m (9’ 10")
Evolution, H 4m (13’ 2")
Balance, H 2.4m (7’ 10")
Organic, H 4m (13’ 2")
Growth, H 4m (13’ 2")
Coil 1, H 3m (9’ 10")

Warner Brothers Complex, Taipei, Taiwan
Film Director, H 3.5m (11’ 6")

Warner Village Cinemas, Berkshire, UK
Film Director, H 3.5m (11’ 6")

Hokoku Construction, Kobe, Japan
Flora Exemplar, H 2.2m (7’ 3")

Balexert Cinemas, Switzerland
Film Director, H 3.5m (11’ 6")

City of Vienna, Nussdorferstrasse, Vienna, Austria
Flora Exemplar, H 3.1m (10’ 2")

Presented in Vienna to Simon Wiesenthal by the
Ambassador of the United States to Vienna, Austria
for the State of the World Forum – 1999
Resistance

Machu Picchu Municipality, Peru
Rhythms of the Andes, H 3.5m (11’ 6")

Golden Village, Marine Square South Multiplex, Singapore
Camera Man, H 2m (6’ 7")

Maroussi Multiplex, Athens, Greece
Camera Man 2, H 2m (6’ 7")

International Conference Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Rhythms of Life, H 2.6m (8’ 6")

Curitiba, Brazil
Holocaust Memorial

Selected Museums, Public & Corporate Collections, Australia

Residence of the Australian Consul General
New York, USA
Rhythms of Life, H 67cm (2’ 2")
Weightless 3, H71cm (2’ 4")

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
Unfurling, 2.7m (9’)

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Rhythms of Life

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Flora Exemplar, H 2.6m (8’ 6")

National Gallery of Victoria
Folded, H 78cm (31")

Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Rhythms of Life, H 2.6m (8’ 6")

City of Melbourne, King Street, Melbourne, Victoria
City Living, H 5m (16’ 5")

City of Melbourne, Jolimont Terrace, Melbourne, Victoria
I Dreamed, H 3.6m (11’ 10")

The Victorian State Government – City of
Melbourne
Reaching Away, H 4.6m (15’)

Sale Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Running Man

Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
Perception & Reality 2

Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria
Reaching Away

Mildura Art Centre, Victoria
Running Man

Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Growing

High Court Building, Queen & Little Bourke Streets, Melbourne, Victoria
Rhythms of the Metropolis, H 4.7m (15’ 5")

Office of the Prime Minister
Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices,
Treasury Place, Melbourne
Ascend

Citibank Building, 350 Collins Street,
Melbourne, Victoria
I Dropped My Bow, H 3.5m (11’ 6")

Jam Factory, Prahran, Victoria
Camera Man, H 2m (6’ 7")

Westfield Corporate Ltd., Sydney, NSW
The Experience

Crown Casino Complex, Melbourne, Victoria
Film Director, H 3m (9’ 10")

University of Melbourne, Victoria
Running Man

Copelen, South Yarra, Victoria
Flora Exemplar, H 3.6m (11’ 10")

Wesley College, Prahran, Victoria
Together

Novotel International Hotel, Glen Waverly, Victoria
Industrial City, 7.5m x 4.5m (24’ 6″ × 14′ 8")

Bristol Myers Squib, Victoria
Leading 2

The Becton Corporation, Port Melbourne, Victoria
Observe, H 2.6m (8’ 6")

Shoreham, Victoria
Growing, H 4m (13’ 2")

Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick
Pillars of Witness, H 6m (19’ 8")

Mount Scopus College, Melbourne
Growth, H 4m (13’ 2")

Port Melbourne, Victoria
Leading 1, H 2m (6’ 7")

Jewish Museum of Victoria
Resistance

Springvale Cemetery, Victoria 2000
Buchenwald Memorial, H 4m (13’ 2")
Tomb Memorial, H 3.5m (11’ 6")
Babi-Yar Memorial, 2006

World Square – Sydney NSW
Rhythms of Life, H 2.6m (8’ 6")
Leading, H 2.2m (7’ 3")

Elgee Park, Red Hill, Victoria
Leading 1, H 2m (6’ 7")

Macquarie University, NSW
Coil, H 3m (9’ 10")
Labile, H 3m (9’ 10")

McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
Organic, H 4.2m, (13’ 9")
Observe, H 2.6m (8’ 6")

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria
Catching Wind, H 1.5m (4’ 11")

University of New South Wales
Screen, H 2.5m (8’ 2")

Special Highlights

Books:

Andrew Rogers,Time & Space – Cappadocia, Turkey, 2010

Eleanor Heartney, Andrew Rogers Geoglyphs, Rhythms of Life. Edizioni Charta Milano, Italy, 2009
ISBN: 978-88-8158-712-4

Ken Scarlett, Rhythms of Life: The Art of Andrew Rogers. Melbourne Macmillian Art Publishing, 2003
 Comments by Edmund Capon, Director of the Australian Gallery, NSW, Australia, Edmund Pilsbury, former Director of Kimball Art Museum and Idit Porit, formerly of Tel Aviv Museum of Art. ISBN: 187683261-4

Dr. Chris McAuliffe, Forms, Essay. ISBN: 0-9577671-3-7

Ken Scarlett, Elgee Park: Sculpture in Landscape. Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1-875-832-32-0

Multimedia:

CNN Inside the Middle East, The Sculpture Park you can see from Space, Reporter Ivan Watson, July 2010
PBS Sunday Arts Profile, Andrew Rogers, producer Bob Morris, October 2009
CBS Sunday Morning, The Big Picture, producer Anthony Laudato, April 2009
Reuters News, The World’s Largest Land Art Project reporter Sarah Toms, April 2009
CNN Inside the Middle East, Geoglyphs in the Arava Desert Israel, producer Michael Schwartz, 2005

Online:

Canberra Times, 03 April 2012, Striking pose to alter perception of airport
Art in America, 05 December 2011, Andrew Rogers’s Turkish Earthworks
Google Lat Long Blogspot, 02 August 2011, Explore Land Art with Google Earth
Art Daily Blog, July 2011
Art and Architecture Journal, July 2011
Spectator.CO.UK, June 04, 2011 Out of the Ordinary
The LookOut news, May 18, 2011 Andrew Rogers’ Monumental “Rhythms of Life” at 18th Street Art Center
LA Weekly, May 13, 2011 Andrew Rogers, Land Artist: Now Playing on a Continent Near You
Art Knowledge News April 27, 2011 “Andrew Rogers: Time and Space” on View at the 18th Street Arts Center

Press:

Sculpture Magazine, Rome Biennale: International Exhibition of Sculpture March 2012 Vol.31 No.2
Art & Australia, Australia, Reclaimed by the land: Andrew Rogers’s ‘Time and Space’ March 2012 46 No. 3
Landscape Architecture Magazine, USA, Seen From Afar, January 2012, Vol 102 No. 1
La Stampa, 08 November 2011 Rogers, il Ritmo della Vita in tonnellate di pietra
Kunstzeitung, Germany, Record Breaking, 31 October 2011
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey, Discovering the rhythms of life in Cappadocia’s stones, 20 September 2011
Identity Magazine, USA, Scope for the Best, September 2011
Monopol, Jongleur der Superlative August 2011
Macquarie Matters, Macquarie University of New South Wales, Sculpture Park Winter 2011
Spectator, Out of the Ordinary, June 2011
The Arts Newspaper, Art Writ Large, May 2011
The Age Newspaper, Sculpture on a Grand Scale, January 2011
Chile Magazine, Rhythms of Life in Chile, November 2010
Asian Geographic, Giants Over Time and Space, No. 76 Issue 7/2010
Qantas, The Australian Way Magazine, Boulder and the Beautiful August 2010
Skylife Magazine, Turkish Airlines, May 2010
Istanbul Contemporary Etc, Andrew Rogers Rhythms of Life, March-May 2010
Sculpture, USA, Geoglyphs Spanning the Globe, December 2009
Art in America, USA, Earthly Homage, October 2009
Goreme Open Air Museum, Turkey, August, 2009
Interior Design, USA, Sculptor as Artist, August 2009
Tell Magazine, Chile, Ritmos de Vida, June 2009
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey, May 19 2009
Forbes Magazine, USA, May 13, 2009
Christian Science Monitor, USA, May 12, 2009
Podtatranské Noviny, National Slovakian Newspaper, May 27, 2008
Australasian Cemeteries and Crematoria Association News, The Challenges of Monumental Landmark Sculptures, Autumn 2008
SABAH Cuma, The Man Who Whispers to the Universe with Stones, Turkey 2007
La Prensa La Paz, Bolivia, Land Art Potosi, December 13 2006
Australian Art Review, Environmental Art, November 2006
Sculpture Magazine of China Sculptors Association, 2006
Parliament of Victoria, Victoria’s Hansard, March 18, 2006
The Age Newspaper, January 28, 2006
Jetstar Magazine, December2005/January 2006
Lino, Issue No. 10 2005
The Sydney Morning Herald, December 28, 2005
CNN Television, Inside the Middle East, Geoglyphs in the Arava Desert, Israel, November 21-25, 2005
The Australian Newspaper, November 16, 17, 18, 2005
The Herald Sun Newspaper, November 7, 2005
The Australian Art Collector, Issue 34, October-December 2005
World Sculpture News, Volume 11 Number 2, Spring 2005
Melbourne Weekly Magazine, September 28 – October 4, 2005
Melbourne Magazine, Issue 032, August 2005
ABC Television, Foreign Correspondent, June 21, 2005
ABC Radio, June 19, 2005.
State of the Arts, Australia, 2005
Art in America, June/July 2005
Australian Art Monthly, May 2005
The Age Newspaper, May 16, 2005
Monument, Architecture & Design, April 2005
World Sculpture News, Volume 10 Number 4, Autumn 2004
Australian Financial Review, August 28-29, 2004
The Age Newspaper, March 3, 2004
Craft Arts International, #60 2004
Sculpture, Magazine of the International Sculpture Center, USA, April 2004
Good Reading, October 2003
World Sculpture News, Volume 9, Number 4, Autumn 2003
Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia Website, 2002
University of Melbourne: Australian Sculpture Server, 2002
Sculpture, Magazine of the International Sculpture Center, USA: On Record, January/February 2003
Kult, Italy – March 2002
Victorian Arts Centre Home Page, February 2002
Jerusalem Post, Friday February 1 and February 8, 2002
Victorian Arts Centre News: Preview, December 2001
Melbourne City Art Walks, City of Melbourne, December 2001
World Sculpture News, Volume 7 Number 3, Summer 2001
The Jerusalem Post, Friday August 25, 2000
The Herald Sun, Arts & Entertainment, July 31, 2000
World Sculpture News, Volume 6 Number 2, Spring 2000
Monument Architecture & Design, April/May 2000
The Australian Magazine, April 1-2, 2000
World Sculpture News, Volume 5 No. 2, Spring 1999
Kurier Newspaper, Wein Austria, December 8, 1999
ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Wein Heute – Television, June 12, 1999
World Sculpture News, Volume 5 Number 4, Autumn 1999
The Age Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia – December 6, 1999
The Age Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia – October 25, 1999
Sculpture, Magazine of The International Sculpture Center, USA, Vol. 18 No. 7, September 1999
19th & 20th Century Australian Painting Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1999. Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
Wiener Zeitang, March 22, 1999
Salzburger Nuchrichten, March 20, 1999
Die Presse Newspaper, Vienna Austria, March 20, 1999
World Sculpture News, Vol. 4 No. 4, Autumn 1998,
19th & 20th Century Australian Painting Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Catalogue 90, 1998. Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
Austria Today Newspaper, March 25, 1999
City of Melbourne Open Air Sculpture Museum, 1997
Generation, June 1995, January 1996, October 1996, October 1997, May 2000
Venice Magazine: Los Angeles Arts March 1998
City of Melbourne: Events Magazine, January, March, April 1998
Must See Melbourne: City of Melbourne, Greeting Service, December 1997
Becton Living, 1997
Miscellanea, Cultural Affairs Office of the Embassy of Australia, December 1997
19th & 20th Century Australian Painting Sculpture and Decorative Arts 1997, Lauraine Diggins Fine Arts
Herald Sun Newspaper, 1997
Australian Council for Educational Research, Administration Manual, 1997
Sunraysia Newspaper, May 18 1996
Architectural Review, Australia – Presenting the Future, Autumn 1996
YPO Worldwide, A Renaissance Legacy, December 1995
The Herald Sun Home Magazine, September 2 1995
The Qantas Club, Artistic Sensibilities, September 1995
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, October 1994
Herald Sun Newspaper, June 20 1993

Catalogues

Invited Lectures & Workshops

Art Gallery of New South Wales, May 2010 – Sydney, Australia
agIdeas 2010 – Sydney, Australia
Art Month Sydney 2010 – Creative Collaborations: Art and Landscape
State of the World Forum – San Francisco, U.S.A.
Artist in Residence, Institute of Technology at Technion University, Haifa, Israel.
The Young Presidents’ Organization. Auckland, New Zealand.
Symposium at Sculptures by the Sea, Bondi, NSW, Australia.

Representation

Switzerland

Hammer Gallery, Zurich

Germany

Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin

Italy

La Subbia, Pietrasanta

USA

James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Australia

Soho Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Mossgreen Gallery, Toorak, Victoria