Gavin J R - About

Gavin Rogers is an international artist, performer and socially engaged researcher living and working in the United Kingdom. His practice is situated across a range of media from performance to sculpture. Gavin has particular interest in the area of identity; juxtaposing, stereotyping and discovering personal, social and psychogeographical identities though visual, textual and verbal languages.

Gavin's practice is well known for his works surrounding national identity, which aimed to rediscover, de-mystify and rebrand the politics that surround the colours of Red, White and Blue (featuring on BBC television and Radio). Gavin is remembered by many as the man who wore only red, white and blue clothes for an entire year, touring the UK, East to West in aUnion Jack flagged car, collecting conversations and video from staged encounters along the way.

Since then, Gavin's work has moved towards the consideration of city identities, working in Barcelona (Spain), Melbourne (Australia), Nottingham (UK), Leeds (UK) and Sheffield (UK). Gavin was recently commissioned by Nottingham Trent University in association with Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia to take a month's residency at the Lovehouse studios, located in Smith Street at the heart of Melbourne's art scene. The self-initiated task was to capture the City of Melbourne via the five senses through the contextual contemporary twist on the 1851 Gold Rush to Melbourne.

Whilst in Australia he also collaborated with artist Louise Purcell, making work at the Annual Confest global gathering which later led to a performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Alongside his artistic practice Gavin runs workshops, seminars, lectures and teaching sessions within and outside of academia including: being the curator of the USA to UK Creative Exchange for Fulbright Scholars and coordinating the National Art Saturday Club.

Education and Training

Exhibitions

BA (Hons) Fine Art

School of Art, Design and Technology, University of Derby

MA Culture, Creativity, Entrepreneurship

School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds

PhD (current) - Visual Arts: Social Values

School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University

PG Dip (current) Research Practice

Nottingham Trent University

Training: National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Enagagement, University of Nottingham

Training: Art and Design Teaching in FE and HE

TATE gallery and The Sorrell Foundationusers know a little more about you.

Work History

Saturday Art Club Course Administrator and Tutor

Nottingham Trent University / The Sorrell Foundation

Fulbright Institute (USA - UK) (Summer 2012, 2013)

Fine Art and the City: Programme Leader and Studio

Supervisor

Research Assistant

Nottingham Trent University

Associate Artist

Rushcliffe School

Visual Arts Lecturer (Hourly)

Nottingham Trent University

Educational Mentor

Leeds Education Authority

Incahoot: Programme Co-ordinator

Derby University

Production Manager (Public Events)

New Stages Festival Stage @ Leeds Theatre

Magazine Contributor

FD2D magazine

Gallery Assistant

Derby Museum and Art Gallery (Placement)

Data Analyst, Burton College

Learning Champion

Aimhigher Derbyshire

Conference Papers

‘Interactive Prism’ Commissioned Design New Designers Festival (Solo) (May 2014)

‘Collaborative Exhibition’ – The Love House, Collingwood, Australia (April 2014)

‘Sky Arts’ Commissioned Design Awards to be announced shortly. (Solo) (May 2014)

‘Immersive’ Live Human Casting in Jelly in collaboration with Hristiyan Pavlov, Bulgaria (May 2014)

‘Sailing words’. Lady Bay Festival 2014 - Commissioned Poetry (Solo) (May 2014)

‘Studio Residency’ Love house and TOMBOY Studio, Collingwood, Australia (Solo) (April 2014)

‘Touching Gold: Tribe of Capitalism, Participatory Performance’, Confest International Festival, New South Wales, Australia (April 2014)

‘Less we forget’. Loop Live Art Space. Melbourne, Australia. As part of the ‘Signed, Sealed Delivered’ Collaborative performance. (Solo) (April 2014)

‘Paper Presentation and Lecture Series Performance Ethnography: Discovering Cities’ Monash University, Melbourne Australia. (April 2014)

‘The Grotesque’. Performance and seminar, University of Melbourne (April 2014)

‘Gospel Dreams’. 26th April 2014. Museum of Contemporary Art. Sydney, Australia.

‘Man Nottingham’ Associate artist in house. The Corner Creative Space, Nottingham. November 2014 (Solo)

‘Dirty Fingernails’ Research Seminar Exhibition Bonington Gallery (July 2013)

‘One Man, One Shed’ – Online Exhibition and Book (2013 – Present)

‘One Man, One Key’ – Performance, Nottingham Contemporary - Boots and routes project (June 2013)

‘Boots and Routes’ – Group Photography Exhibition, Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham (June 2013)

‘Opposites’ Lady Bay Festival. Video Work (April 2013)

‘Kite Runner’ – Nottingham Playhouse – Group community work collaboration with Rhiannon Slade (April 2013)

‘Saturday Night, Sunday Morning’ Video for Showreel, Lakeside, Nottingham.Curated by Frank Abbott (Jan 2013)

‘Riots’ New Art Exchange – Community wor, Djanogly Academy, collaboration with Rhiannon Slade

‘Scratch’ A number of Newsagents, Huntington, Pennsylvania USA, (Sept 2012)

‘The outsider looking in’ Group Show, Atrium, Nottingham Trent University (Aug 2012)

‘Saturday Show’ Group Exhibition, Somerset House, London (June 2012)

‘Good Old’ Nottingham’ Exhibition and Performance Lady Bay Festival, (May 2012) (Solo)

‘The Hutch’ Group Exhibition, The Cellar Project, Leeds (April 2012)

‘New Stages’. Leeds. Parkinson Hall. - Solo and Group exhibition (March-May 2011) (Solo)

‘What do you think?’ Street performance, Briggate High Street, Leeds (April 2011) (Solo)

‘Red, White and Blue’ Solo show, The secret warehouse, Burton-upon-Trent (September 2010) (Solo)
‘Laid Bare’ Fine Art - Group exhibition (June 2010)
‘Flair’ Degree Show University of Derby - Multi-discipline exhibition (June 2010)
‘Oh I Do like to be beside the seaside’ North Pier, Blackpool - Solo live performance (April 2010) (Solo)

‘Driving’ Performance Matlock Bath (March 2010) (Solo)

‘Gambling’ Great Yarmouth Amusements, South Pier, Participant exhibition
‘Small Collection and Sale’ Derby Museum and Art Gallery - Group exhibition and sale (March 2010)
‘Incubations’ Friar Gate Studios, Derby - Group exhibition (June 2009)
‘Mr Fox’ A True British Native – Derby Museum and Art Gallery - Group exhibition (April 2009)
‘Stereotypes’ University of Derby - Solo exhibit (Jan 2009) (Solo)
Postcard Exhibition Derby Museum and Art Gallery - Group exhibition and sale (April 2008)

Adventures

Gold Rush Residency, Melbourne (2014)

Alps - Filming (2014)

h Agglomeration, Barcelona (2013)

Inside out, Bulgaria (2013)

Dirty Ears, London (2012)

Dark Room, Venice (2011)

Eyes wide open, New York (2009)

ABOUT

Internal
Snow White and her dreaded PhD. Paper. Breaking Boundaries Research Conference. May 2014. Nottingham Trent University.
Clearing the Mist. Performing my PhD seminar series. Thinking Though Practices. May 2014. The Primary Studios.
Fly on the wall, elephant in the room - Presented a paper at the Research and the Researcher – 5th Annual Research Practice Conference, Nottingham Trent University
Wise Wanderings – Presented a paper and seminar session for the SPACE and the Humanities Research Cluster, School of Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
Public Engagement in Research – Presented a seminar session and Lecture as part of the Postgraduate Research Festival, ADBE 2013
Introduction to Psychogeography - Mirco Teach, as part of the Initial Teacher Training Course (Higher Education)
Thinking Through Practices – Research Group – School of Art and Design
External
Victoria University, Melbourne – My city and me. Seminar series. April 2014
Monash University, Melbourne – Performance Ethnography: Discovering Cities. Paper and Seminar. April 2014
TATE Gallery, London, as part of the National Art and Design Saturday Art Club, Sorrell Foundation/DCMS.
BIAD Postgraduate Conference
DMCS ‘Arts Education’ Conference @ London School of Economics (May 2013)