Red Spot Gallery - Rotorua Art Gallery supporting local artists
John Roy
Artist Statement
My work revolves around iconic forms, their social memory and what people bring to the piece or their knowledge of that form. I introduce my ideas or thoughts, in a way the viewer can relate to or interpret comfortably. Yet maintain my social, political and aesthetic intentions for the work. In effect to provide enough information for the viewer to draw upon their own personal experiences to tell their own story.
Biography / John Roy
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics), Whanganui Polytechnic, 1994 – 1997
Solo Shows
2009 Glimmer, Installation, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
2008 Here and There, Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington
Here, Installation, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
Bull, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2007 Factory Man, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2006 John Roy Ceramics, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2005 New Work, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2004 Figuring it out, Whakatane District Museum & Art Gallery, Whakatane
Selected Group Shows
2009 Finalist Wallace Art Awards
Intimate (group show Mike Crawford, Ben Pearce, John Roy Masterworks Gallery Auckland)
2008 Precious (window installation Objectspace, Auckland)
Summer Show (invited artists R.O.W. Gallery, Tauranga)
Finalist Wallace Art Awards
National Drawing Award 2008 (Travelling show Artspace, Auckland/Enjoy, Wellington/The Physics Room, Christchurch)
2007 Norsewear Art Award
Finalist Wallace Art Awards
Figurative (invited artist Masterworks Gallery, Auckland)
2006 National Drawing Award 2006 (Travelling show Artspace, Auckland /The Physics Room, Christchurch)
Hot (invited alumni Quay school of the arts Gallery, Whanganui)
Natural Selection 2 (invited artist Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island)
Winter / Over (group show Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi)
Finalist Wallace Art Awards
2005 Animal Farm (Britt Bunkley, John Roy Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington)
S.O.A.P (Invited artists Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island)
Focus.3 Ceramic Artists (Brendan Adams, Robert Rapson, John Roy. Northart Community Art Gallery, Auckland)
Animal Crackers (invited artists Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington)
Tauranga Artists (invited artists George Perry Gallery, Tauranga)
Finalist Wallace Art Awards
2004 Dry Clean Only (invited artists Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington)
Left at the Members Lounge (group show at Objectspace, Auckland)
Finalist Wallace Art Awards
2003 Twelfth Annual Wallace Art Awards
2002 Of Heralds and Harbingers (group show at Lopdell House, Titirangi /Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings)
2001 Out of the Comfort Zone (invited artists Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island)
All Fired Up (invited artists Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island)
Figurative (invited artist Masterworks Gallery, Auckland)
Publications
2008 Royal Roy: Ceramic Sculptor, Penelope Jackson, UNO Bay of Plenty Magazine, autumn 08
Unearthing John Roy, Penelope Jackson, Bravado Magazine issue 12
2004 Left at the Members Lounge, Catalogue, Rachel Gibbons, Lucy Hammonds, and Sean Duxfield.
2002 Of Heralds and Harbingers, Catalogue, Moyra Elliott
Public Collections
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tauranga Art Gallery
Awards
2006 “Crater Clay” NZSP 47th National Exhibition – Non Functional Merit Award
Waiclay National Ceramic Exhibition – Waikato Award
2004 “Fusion” 45th NZSP National Exhibition – Premier Award
Waiheke Ceramics Award – Supreme Award / Merit Award
The Portage Ceramics Award – Merit Award
2003 Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Awards Ceramics – Merit Award
1997 Student Art Award from the Friends of the Dowse Art Museum
Akoranga Education Trust Scholarship
1994 NZSP 35th National Exhibition – Merit Award
2000 Artist in residence Whanganui Polytechnic