Siahne is a practising artist from Boorloo Perth
Western Australia.
Often driven by a desire to encourage openness and play, their practice is defined by methods in sculpture, performance and video, moving between mediums to create socially-engaged works, gestural objects and interactive installations. From public art to public acts of foolery, Rogers interrogates the dynamic space where sculpture becomes performance and performance becomes sculpture.
Informed by a background in cabaret and circus, and drawing from their parallel role as an educator and technician, Rogers' practice is deeply rooted in understanding how we inhabit and interact with our perceptions of time and space, objects, and each other, creating opportunities for embodied learning where physical engagement becomes a form of knowledge-making. Their broad approach to creating allows them to explore the slippery relationship between humour, tragedy and meaning-making found throughout narratives on lived experience and social contexts of everyday life.
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Practising Artist
2023 Helen Lempriere Scholarship Recipient
HOPE(STALGIC) - RU, New York 2024
Sculpture By The Sea Sydney NSW 2023
Exhibiting Artist and Educational Program
Sculpture By The Sea Cottosloe Perth WA 2023
Exhibiting Artist and Educational Program
Feeling Funny: Group Exhibition - PSAS, Fremantle WA 2021
HATCHED Graduate Art Show - PICA, Perth WA 2020
Heathcote Select- Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, Perth WA 2020
Making and Showing - Kingston School of Fine Art, London 2020
Curtin Fine Art Degree Show - Perth, WA 2019
Pay Me: Group Exhibition - Cool Change Contemporary Perth 2019
Unhallowed Arts - Art Source -Perth 2018
(with sonic artists Subtle Knife & Tone List.)
Performing Artist – 2009 – Present
Solo and collaborative performance and dance pieces.
Participant in festivals and touring performances locally, interstate and internationally:
- Touring solo and collaborative performances in Tokyo, Japan
- UK and European Tour for musical performances
- Perth Fringe World Festival, WA
- Adelaide Fringe Festival, SA
- Karratha Red Earth Arts Festival – Regional WA
Arts Work
Casual Academic Staff - First Year Fine Art Tutor
MCASI Curtin University Perth WA
Arts Technician - 2021 – Present
Wesley College Perth WA
Education and Residencies
Residency Unlimited, New York USA 2024
Residency Exchange Kingston School of Art London UK 2020
Bachelor of Fine Art 2017-2020 Curtin University.
Vice Chancellor’s List Recipient 2017, 2018 and 2019
Cert III Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft 2008
Central TAFE Perth WA