Approaches to Waitangi
2016
Roger Mortimer
watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas
700 x 750 mm
Roger Mortimer
watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas
700 x 750 mm
Approaches to Waitangi
2016
2016
Roger MortimerRoger Mortimer has been described as a contemporary visual mythologist. In his paintings beauty and barbarity combine as he grapples with the timelessness of the big issues of history and humanity. Medieval graphic imagery, set on a backdrop of marine charts, resonates with contemporary global issues to suggest both psychological and political readings.
Mortimer's paintings variously described as "elegant" and "carefully rendered jewel-like images" represent his search for a personal cosmology to make sense of global turbulence. As viewers, we are drawn into the quest to decipher the clues, codes, symbols and signs depicted in his intriguing maps of enigmatic landscapes. In 2014 Mortimer was the Paramount Award Winner in the Wallace Art Awards - one of New Zealand's two top art awards - with the judge describing his work as "medieval in appearance and utterly contemporary contemporary in intent". In 2017, a survey exhibition was shown in public galleries in Wellington and Auckland. Mortimer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland and has work in a range of public and private collections in New Zealand and Europe. |
Approaches to Waitangi
2016 Roger Mortimer watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas 700 x 750 mm Approaches to Waitangi 2016 Piopiotahi
2017 Roger Mortimer watercolour and gold dust on canvas 1200 x 800 mm Piopiotahi 2017 Akaroa 2
2018 Roger Mortimer watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas 700 x 800 mm Akaroa 2 2018 Pelorus
2018 Roger Mortimer watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas 600 x 700 mm Pelorus 2018 Tiwai
2018 Roger Mortimer watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas 1600 x 1600 mm Tiwai 2018 Roger Mortimer watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas 1600 x 1600 mm Te Kaha
2019 Roger Mortimer watercolour, gold dust and acrylic lacquer on canvas 1070 x 1170 mm Te Kaha 2019 |