Roger Rigorth
Email : r.rigorth@web.de
Homepage: www.roger-rigorth.de
I feel very connected to forests; it is in fact where I feel at home. So mostly ideas getting inspired and generated with the forest in my mind. So I feel bringing the forest and nature
back to the people.
1965 born in Saanen/Switzerland
1987-1990 Education: Woodcarving School in Michelstadt/Germany
Since 1991 free-working artist
1992-1993 Study visits in Krakow, Poland and Galway, Ireland
Since 1996 Symposiums in Australia, Denmark, Namibia, South-Korea, Finland, France,
Italy, Belgium, Holland, USA, Check-Republic, China, Sweden.
Since 1993 Exhebitions: Darmstadt, Worms, Ludwigshafen, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremerhaven, Essen, Basel (Swiss), Windhoek (Namibia), Rakovnik (Ceck-Republik), Danzig (Poland), Pusan (Korea), New York (USA), Los Angeles (USA), Sydney (Australia), Amsterdam (Holland)
Artist in residence: Vermont Studio Center, Vermont (USA), Danish Artist Council, Fredericshavn/Hirsholmene (Denmark), Paul Ernst Wilke Atelier, Bremerhaven (Germany), SOPA Olympic Park Authorities , Sydney (Australia), California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield (USA)
Poetic Forest Residency, Mt.Lushan (China)
Awards: second price "Kunstpreis Obernburg" Obernburg, second price "Lichtenberg Peis", Darmstadt, first price "Kunst im Park" Mörfelden/Frankfurt, first price "Kunst vor Ort" Offenbach, press price "HORIZON" Sancy (France)
