The Samstag Alumni
The 1993 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Shane Carn |
Robert Cleworth |
Sally Cox |
Mark Hislop
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Jacqueline Hocking |
Nigel Jamieson |
Ruth McDougall |
Sally Mannall
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Ruth Marshall |
Roger Noakes
Roger Noakes finesses steel with the virile confidence and shrewd humour of a village blacksmith. Equally capable of ephemeral or monumental conceptions, particularly in his public works, life's timing has more recently led Noakes to focus on a smaller scale of studio object which adeptly, with serendipity, blends found and fabricated metals into diverse narratives.
Purged of the conventions of formalism and feeling fecund and liberated in
the post-modern environment, his particular interest is political, social and
gender themes - his position invariably subversive. For example, while
recognising genuine validity in the feminist claim for change in social
balances, he is unable to restrain a response of gentle provocation and
"assertion-of-maleness", indicative of the continuing desire by men for women
sexually.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Samstag The First Millenium
| Roger Noakes Born 1954, Sydney, New South Wales |
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| 1993 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Scotland, UK |
| 1991 | Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1977 | Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture), University of South Australia, Adelaide |
Death of Noir (detail) 1992
etched steel beam
40 x 30 x 260 cm
© the artist
Night tools 1993
three steel constructions each of etched, cross-cut saw blades and metal objects
70 x 153, 75 x 160, 69 x 190 cm
Samstag Collection: University of South Australia
© the artist