ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Roger Murphy was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1939. He was apprenticed to a commercial printer as a lithographic artist and he studied life drawing under Jack Carington Smith at the Tasmanian School of Art.

Since 1989, Roger has painted full-time in watercolours and oils from his home studio at Kingston Beach, Tasmania, where he lives with his wife Jan.

He travels and paints regularly in Europe and the Pacific region and he has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. Roger Murphy’s work is admired by art-lovers worldwide – his paintings are represented in many private and public collections. He is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute. In 2005, The Mercury newspaper ranked Roger as ranked one of Tasmania’s Top Ten Artists.

EXHIBITIONS

Roger Murphy exhibits on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria and at Raglan Gallery, Manly, NSW. In Tasmania, his paintings are always on show at Strickland Gallery, Handmark Gallery and Wellington Gallery in Hobart; at Greenoaks Gallery in Launceston; and at Saddlers Court Gallery in Richmond. He presents a one-man show in Tasmania at least once each year.

PRIZES

• Derwent Festival Art Prize, 1967
• Inaugural Wrest Point Casino Art Prize (watercolour section), 1996

COMMISSIONS

• Tasmanian Government
  For presentation to the Fujian Province Government, China, 1983
• Norfolk Island
  Three sets of stamps, pre-stamped envelopes and aerogrammes
  for North Broken Hill Peko - company operations throughout Australia, 1990
• Tasmanian Government Printer
  Paintings of the Hobart waterfront for a series of prints, 1990
• International Catamarans
  - twenty paintings to be hung in their ships, 1990
• Tourism Tasmania
  Six watercolours to be used as posters, 1991

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