Roger Crawford

Born Melbourne, Australia

Lives & Works Sydney (Eora)

Roger Crawford is a contemporary of Roy Jackson, John Peart and David Aspden and exhibited at Watters Gallery from 1986 - 2016. He studied at Sydney College of the Arts and the National Art School. On leaving NAS in 1973 Roger Crawford banded together with Tess Horwitz, Paul Saint and Narelle Jubelin to launch Firstdraft. One of the first artist run spaces in Sydney, Firstdraft is still esteemed as an important venue for the investigation of contemporary conceptual ideas in current art practice. Crawford is highly respected amongst his peers and hugely popular in his teaching role at the National Art School (1986 – 2023).

In his series, Scrim, which was many years in the making, Crawford creates meditative works with a great sensitivity to material and scale. Roger Crawford‘s work is held in numerous private collections and a major work from his Scrim Series was acquired by the Nock Art Foundation.