Title

Neil Roberts (1954-2002).

Author

Author not identified

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

25 March 2002

Type

Obituary

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Neil Roberts, sculptor, glass artist, community artist, art activist, printmaker and a great friend and colleague to all, died tragically in an accident near his home in Queanbeyan, NSW on 21 March 2002.

Not a printmaker in the traditional manner, Neil was fascinated by the many ways that images could be replicated. He discussed his work producing prints from bituminised wrapping paper while in the Philippines at the Third Australian Print Symposium; his prints produced by bouncing inked-up balls on paper were exhibited at the Helen Maxwell Gallery in 2001; and at the Fourth Australian Print Symposium 2001 he orchestrated the production of a suite of prints by artists at the conference using a spirit duplicator. A later artists book utilising the same process, Tic Tock, celebrated the turning of the millennium.