Roger McNulty, Borders and Material Roger spent his early years in the steel town of Motherwell in Scotland. He worked initially as an engineering apprentice and production worker before qualifying in Employment Law and working in Steelmaking, Manufacturing, Screen Entertainment and...
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Roger spent his early years in the steel town of Motherwell in Scotland. He worked initially as an engineering apprentice and production worker before qualifying in Employment Law and working in Steelmaking, Manufacturing, Screen Entertainment and IT sectors. This later work took him into new ventures across the UK, central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
During his apprenticeship he also studied art in Glasgow, produced weekly illustrations for a local paper and made paintings of coalminers and steelworks, reflecting his early engagement with work, working communities and their struggles.
His initial grounding and international experience provide the context to his enquiring industrial, commercial and urban landscapes.
“The idea for the work normally emerges from some current event or series of events affecting how people live, work and interact, although sometimes it might just be a worked item or landscape that engages my thought on the labour involved. I concentrate on the resultant material effects”
He uses a variety of material, paint, canvas, and metals, to express the physicality of the concepts, joined by brush, hand, pallet knife stitching and any relevant means.
Roger studied Art at Glasgow School of Art, Havering College and Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London. He has worked and exhibited in the UK and Asia. Currently he lives and has a studio in Essex.
2020
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