Toni Rogers - international artist
 Toni Rogers |
After many years of teaching photography, printmaking, fabric design and fibre art, Toni Rogers is now based at her Cantata Studio in Kuranda, in Far North Queensland, Australia.
When not developing her own pieces for exhibition, and sale, Toni runs workshops for people of all ages and stages at Cantata Studio. Toni has exhibited her photography and fibre art since 1974 and has featured in many publications. Her pieces are held in a number of private collections in Australia, New Zealand, France, USA, India and the UK. Toni's photographs tell a story, reveal a place, an event or a state of mind. There is a common theme in her work where simplicity is the most important aspect, however, while giving considerable attention to detail she tries to show the extraordinary in the ordinary. Toni draws heavily from nature recognising the importance of natural images in conservation and education. |
Toni's birthplace, New Zealand, is an environment that continues to strongly influence and support her creative direction as it has since her father first introduced her, as a very small child, to the seashore and its mysteries. Her designs reflect strong emotional ties and evoke the traces of human and natural processes with repeat patterns, like water on sand and the ever-changing seascape. Some of Toni's fibre work is described as 'Oceanic Art'. Toni uses sculptural fibre and works with extremely broad definitions of fibre. Just about anything flexible becomes fair game in an effort to gather and interlace the great breadth of materials available. Toni considers weaving fibre to be an art of assemblage and juxtaposition; the satisfaction lies in making an inventive whole out of disparate parts.
Toni finds value in the discarded, and her fibre pieces are almost exclusively created with materials salvaged from her surroundings. These raw found elements have their own characteristics, which can push a work in unexpected directions. In the most basic way, the work springs out of our community and our environment.
Contact Toni to enjoy her art, and develop your own.
Toni finds value in the discarded, and her fibre pieces are almost exclusively created with materials salvaged from her surroundings. These raw found elements have their own characteristics, which can push a work in unexpected directions. In the most basic way, the work springs out of our community and our environment.
Contact Toni to enjoy her art, and develop your own.
