ROGER MORTIMER
Education
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
Awards
2015 Finalist, Waikato Art Awards
2014 Paramount Winner, Wallace Art Awards
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Tautuku Lodge, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2022 Hauraki II, Northerly Wind, Föenander Galleries, Auckland
Lost Pages, Collaboration with Thomas Pound, Föenander Galleries, Auckland
Oceania Now: Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Christie’s, Paris
2021 Pito-one; At the End of the Beach, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2020 Houhora, Föenander Galleries, Auckland
Auckland Art Fair, Föenander Galleries, Auckland
2019 Karori, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
Auckland Art Fair, Bartley + Company Art
2018 The Fisher King, Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch
Tiwai, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2017 Dilemma Hill – a survey, Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
Sydney Contemporary, Bartley + Company Art
2016 Resolution Island, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
Auckland Art Fair, Bartley + Company Art
2015 Te Waha, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2013 South Poetic Party, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2012 Manukau Banks, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2011 The Messenger, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2010 Hapuku Lodge, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2009 Apocrypha, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2007 Intelligent Design, Ivan Anthony, Auckland
2006 A Glitch, Ivan Anthony, Auckland
2005 Supercover, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
The End of the World, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2004 The Intimate Hours, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2003 Letterstogina, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2002 Madonna of the Shark, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2001 Southern Collection Unit, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2000 e-illumination, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
Selected Group Shows
2024 Studio 18D, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2023 The Birth Breath, Kurume City Art Museum, Japan
Studio 18D, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2022 Finer Points, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
The Inimitable Mr. Hopkins, Waikato Museum, Hamilton
2018 You Cannot Delete it at the End of the Day, State Gallery, Auckland
2015 Wallace Art Awards, Morrinsville; Pātaka Art Museum
2014 Wallace Art Awards, The Pah, Auckland
China – NZ Arts Exhibition, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
2013 idyll, New Zealand Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe
2010 Top Ten: New Acquisitions for the University of Auckland Art Collection, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
Words Walking, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
2007 Feelings, Ivan Anthony, Auckland
2005 High Chair, St. Paul St. (AUT) Gallery, Auckland
Drawings Out of Exile, Te Tuhi, Auckland
2003 Portraiture, Te Tuhi, Auckland
2001 After Killeen: Social Observation in Recent Art, Artspace, Auckland
Flesh and Fruity: New Artists 2001 Artspace, Auckland
1999 The University of Wellington Art Collection in Context: Manufacturing Meaning,
Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
1998 Te Toi Hou, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland University, Auckland
Selected Reviews, Articles and Publications
Apocrypha; The maps of Roger Mortimer, Index, 2021
Exhibition review, Wellington, Roger Mortimer, Pito-one: At the end of the beach, Phyllis
Mossman, Art New Zealand, Number 180, Summer 2021/22
Poetic Anachronisms, The Art of Roger Mortimer, Sam Melser, Art New Zealand, Number 164, Summer 2017/18
Roger Mortimer Trans-historic Bodies, Sam Melser, Bowerbank Ninow, Auction No. 6 Catalogue, 9 August 2017
Roger Mortimer: Dilemma Hill, catalogue published by the Gus Fisher Gallery & Pataka Art Museum 2017
Dark Beauty, Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, Art Collector, Special Edition: Auckland Art Fair 2016
Te Waha, Malcolm Burgess, Art New Zealand, Spring 2015
Dante inspired painting takes top Wallace Art Award, Newshub.co.nz, 2 September 2014
Radio NZ, Spiritual Outlook, Documentary, November 2014
NZ Herald, Roger Mortimer: Michele Hewitson interview, September 2014
Auckland University desk calendar, 2013
Here be dragons: Roger Mortimer’s meticulous paintings, Art News, Spring 2010
When Botticelli sailed to Taranaki, John Hurrell, EyeContact, June 2010
Checking painting's pulse, Sue Gardiner, Art News New Zealand, Winter 2009
Seen This Century, 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, Warrick Brown, Godwit Press, 2009
Architecture NZ cover, November 2009
NZ Herald "Canvas", Paint by Numbers, April 2009
Conflicted Childhood, Virginia Were, Art News New Zealand, Autumn 2005
A Paradoxical Art, Erin Griffey, Art New Zealand, Summer 2004–05
Portraiture: The Art of Social Commentary, Rhoda Fowler, 2003
After Killeen: Social Observation in Recent Art, Anna Miles, 2002
The Big Art Trip, TV One, 2002
Artists page: Pavement, magazine, October/November 2001
Flesh and Fruity: New Artists, Anna Miles, 2001
As Good as God: Manufacturing Meaning, Stuart McKenzie, 2000
Selected Collections
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
University of Auckland
Waikato Museum
Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Public Library
Barry Hopkins
Sir James Wallace