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Rick Roser
Grandmothers Country…....Bigambul (Qld / N.S.W. Border)
Aboriginal Events Management
ABN 92283142828
Blue Card ********/* P.O. Box: 247 Fortitude Valley QLD.4006
Email: rickroser@bigpond.com Site: http://www.rickroser.com.
Rick Roser Resume/CV
RESUME/CV
I was born in Brisbane 1955, and grew up with my younger
brother and three sisters travelling and working beside our parents in
the 60's as field workers in rural and Nth.Queensland. My Grandmother
and father were from Bigambul country on the Qld/NSW border. Many people
hunted as a necessity in those days, bushcraft was always a fair percentage
of the conversation, we made and used bush tools all the time in the backblocks
and camps when I was growing up, spears were still used frequently by
kids and adults as they still are in some lucky places today.
And I was one of those kids always interested and willing
to learn and continue these traditions. We more or less grew up on the
Bruce Highway and lived in fringe camps and settlements all over the place.
Later, after a disastrous fire we moved to Brisbane. In the city, and
with such wild 5 kids as us, my parents did it tough and gradually they
began to drift apart, my father became more involved and active in Aboriginal
issues and my mother in white Feminist activism. I too was very involved
in the politics of the time, from an early age I had witnessed first hand
the plight of murri people and resolved to share the struggle for cultural
and physical survival. My life with indigenous culture continued into
adulthood and I lived a nomadic life travelling and working around the
country. I turned 21 hand mining for sapphires and lived with my wife
and son in a tin shack (that she built) In the 80s I learned printing
and published Aboriginal leaflets, newspapers and printing. After that
I returned to the bush travelling and using materials to make artefacts...stone
tools, bark painting.
Fire making at events and festivals and schools took me around Qld, Australia
and then different places around the world and I still tour Indigenous
art education programs in schools and other events.
As a professional artist my works have been acquired by major collections,
National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Public Art.....
Education
Graduate Dip Vis.Arts and Education
Griffith University
Diploma of Visual Art
Griffith University
Accreditations
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment
Queensland Arts Council Accreditation
Working with Children Blue Card
Open Drivers Licence
Other Achievements *
Traditional FIREMAKER
Indigenous Culture Presenter
Performance Tour of Italy 2000
Performance Tour of England, Wales and Spain 2003
Installation Aboriginal artwork in the Shanghai Oceanarium 2004
Aboriginal Art and Culture Resources Kits
Independent Developer, Marketer & Distribution throughout Indigenous
Australia
Indigenous Website and online business development
Performance/Presenter/Travel tours of Europe, Asia, Africa...and
Bundaberg Festival
Moore Park Festival
Stuartholme School Installation
2000 – 2012 - >>
Touring throughout Queensland Schools Touring Artist/Educator with Vibe
Alive throughout Australia Artist/Educator with OnTour Arts Queensland
Touring Artist/educator with Cultural Infusion Australia Tour Burri Burri!!
with Queensland Arts Council Workshop and performance Tour Italy (2)
Workshop and performance Tour England
Tour Spain
Tour China (Shanghai, Beijing)
Teaching Griffith University English Language Institute (GELI) workshops with
International students Teacher TAFE – Visual Arts Diploma Level
Lecturer at BOVACAIA, Queensland College of Art students
Public Art Commissions Stuartholme School Outdoor Learning Project in conj
w Jeremy Ferrier Landscape Architects North West Community Health Centre Public
Art Mentor/ Lead Artist
Brisbane City Council Art Built in Musgrave Park Public Art Mentor/ lead Artist
Brisbane City Council Art Built in Keperra Public Art Mentor/ lead artist
Toowoomba City Council Public Art Sandstone tinted concrete Shanghai Oceanarium
Public Art Commission City Farm/Brisbane City Council Heritage Trail Public
Art Sandstone fondue sculpture
QLD Maritime Museum Collection Bark (Canoe) Griffith University Logan Campus
(Public Art) Sculpture
Hillbrook College (Artist in residence/commission) Sculpture Craigslea High
(Artist in residence/commission) Sculpture Yugambeh Language Centre Indigenous
artwork restoration – installed Gold Coast Convention Centre
Festivals and Performances Queensland Performing Arts Complex – Sand
Song and Out of the Box 2010 Bundaberg Multicultural Festival 2009 & 2010.
Indooroopilly State High School United Nations Days....Hairdresser and
Makeup artist from 2003? to 2010
TARA Festival & Camel Races Queensland Art Gallery “Out of the Box”
Festival for 3 years
Woodford Folk Festival Closing/Fire Making Ceremony annually- 1990 - 2010
Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival England Performance Fire making
Llandudnow Music Festival Wales Performance
Mountains to Mangroves Festival Educational Workshops
Multicultural Music Festival Firemaking Performance Centenary of Federation
Festival Gold Coast Performance Fire & didgeridoo
Centenary of Federation Festival New Farm Park Performance Fire Making Ceremony
Tribal 2000 Festival Lombardia Italy. Performance Workshops/ Fire Ceremony
Valley Fiesta 2000 Performance Fire & Ochre Painting Gold Coast Indigenous
Arts Festival Performance Fire & Didgeridoo
Multimedia QUT Faculty Health - Website Art Design
Release CD-Rom Aboriginal Resources Kit
Multimedia Artist/Producer
Commonwealth Ombudsman Digital Art Designer
Red Cross Digital Art Designer
Release of 3 videos - The Aboriginal Art of String Making
- The Aboriginal Art of Fire Making
- The Aboriginal Art of Ochre Painting Memento Awards x 2 High Commendation
1990 – 1999 Touring Extensive Independent workshops throughout Queensland
Schools
Teaching Southbank Institute of TAFE – Lecturer – Visual Art
Brisbane City Council Gold Program (performance) Workshops Shalom College
Bundaberg (Artist in residence/commission) Sculpture QLD College of Art
(Lecturer) Maleny Folk Festival Maleny Educational Workshops QLD Art Gallery
(exhibition) Workshops
Public Art Commissions and Exhibitions Brisbane City Council Biota St.
Project (Urban Renewal/Public Art.) Sculpture
Yagubi Cultural Festival (Public Art) Painting
Waroo Shire Council (Surat Family History) (Public Art)
Sculpture Matilda Outback Centre Installation (Public Art)
Australian Heritage Commission Art of Place (Touring exhibition) Painting
National Indigenous Art Award (Touring exhibition) Painting
Yugambeh Museum Gold Coast (Public Art) Painting Griffith Artworks (Touring
exhibition) Painting Griffith University Logan Campus (Public Art) Sculpture
Murri Independent School (Public Art) Sculpture Woodford Folk Festival
(Public art) Sculpture Shifting Sights Pinnacles Gallery Townsville (Public
Art) Sculpture
Installation River Mill Gold Coast (acquisition) Painting
Ochres Fire Works Gallery Brisbane (exhibition) Painting QLD Tourist &
Travel Commission (acquisition) Painting
Boondall Wetlands (Public Art) Painting
Woodford Folk Festival (Public art) Sculpture
Totems Coo-ee Sydney (exhibition) Sculpture
Saltwater Freshwater Borewater (exhibition) Painting “Internet”
QLD Art Gallery. (collaboration with Campfire Group) (acquisition) Painting
“Skin and Division”
Woodford Folk Festival (Commission/acquisition) Sculpture
Queensland Art Gallery (acquisition) Sculpture “Dreamtime Travellers”
Bobby Mcleod. Doonooch healing place. Nowra --Sculpture
National Gallery of Australia (Flash Pictures Touring exhibition) Sculpture
“Jundal Gianga”
Plenty of campfires Fire Works Gallery Brisbane (exhibition) Painting
Warlgurgabah (Magnetic Island) (exhibition) Artefacts
Woodford Folk Festival Official shirt design Painting
Robin O’Chin Award runner-up – “Ghost Fish” 1996?
Savode Gallery (exhibition) Sculpture “What happened to the rainforest
and where the water went”
Rockhampton Dreamtime Centre (acquistion) Artefacts
Archie & Rubys kids at WWF
Painting National Gallery Australia Canberra (acquisition) Sculpture “Jundal
Gianga”
Crosscurrents Coo-ee Gallery Sydney (exhibition) Sculpture “The sun
is a beautiful woman”
Ancestors Brisbane (exhibition) Sculpture
Aboriginal Sculpture Review Sydney (exhibition) Sculpture
Bond Collection (acquisition) SculptureFestivals and Performances Brisbane
City Council Citizenship Ceremony (performance) (Smoking Ceremony)
Brisbane City Council Christmas Tree Ceremony (Performance) (Smoking Ceremony)
3rd. Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) QLD Art Gallery (performance) (Smoking
Ceremony)
Woodford Folk Festival (performance) (Fire making Ceremony)
Out of the Box Festival (performance) Workshops
Indigenous Opening (Fire/smoke)and Presenting
Dar River Festival (performance) Sculpture
Yugambeh Museum Gold Coast
Cyber Dreaming Ipswich
Chill-Out Festival (performance)
Brisbane River Festival
QLD Art Gallery
Brisbane City Council
Canberra Festival (fire-making performance) with Neil Cameron Productions
Maryborough Housing Co-Op
Chill-Out Festival
Woodford Folk Festival / Maleny/Noosa1989 to 2012
Firemaking for the Fire Event .....22years...!!!!!!!!.....!!
2nd APT. QLD. Art Gallery
Brisbane City Council Sorry Day
MAIWA QLD P.A.C. BrisbaneWorkshops1987 – 1989
Kamarga Aboriginal Arts Brisbane (exhibition) Sculpture/Bark painting
University of QLD Anthropology Museum (performance/acquisition) Workshops/Stone
tools
Maleny Folk Festival Maleny Educational Workshops 3 months School Workshop
program for Schools Education Workshops Kalkadoon Tribal Centre Mt. Isa.
(acquisition) Stone Tools
Tranby College Sydney (performance/acquisition) W/shops/artefacts
Pacific Arts Festival Townsville (performance) Workshops
QLD Museum (performance) Sculpture workshops
3 months School Workshop program for South East Queensland Schools Rockhampton
Dreamtime Cultural Centre Public Art Ochre Stencil Art
.*....So I have travelled around the country all my life,
love camping light and using bush materials for my work.
Presenting Indigenous
culture workshops in Qld. schools I have met many marvellous people, teachers,
kids..and it has also been my honour and pleasure to present Indigenous
art and culture internationally at events and festivals around the world;...from the Great Wall of China - to Hadrians Wall in Scotland....
and along the way...
...I've looked for Troy and tried to buy gold at the Ponte
Veccio...had a coupla Gondola rides.
Held my ground crossing the Tiber and the Nullabour, seen the Morning
Glory, wish I hadn't seen the Devil Devil at Waddawadaalla...been rained
on under the Eiffel tower and Big Ben; just had to yell out There it is!
at Loch Ness...Ole'd!! at zee bull fights...and castles..I've seen castles..ancient
cities...Toledo steel,..Dragon ships and great big stone feet...Woken up beside the Pyramids,
flicked a stick into the Nile river and watched it float away.. yeah and
cried a river too. Lit a candle before the reclining Budda...Checked out
the Bund, the Louvre, the Vatican...entered the forbidden city, limped
away from Winton
And visited every Gallery and Arts space I could in between.........!!
Rick Roser
Aboriginal Artist, Artefact Maker; Sculptor...Grad.Dip.Art
Ed.& Dip. Art
Po Box 247, Fortitude Valley, QLD, 4006 email: rickroser@bigpond.com.au;
www.rickroser.com
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