EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1985 BA (Visual Arts) City Art Institute, Sydney, NSW.
1976 B.Sc. (Architecture) University of NSW, Sydney, NSW.
EXHIBITIONS 2022 This And That Watson Arts Centre 2020 Head To Head Watson Arts Centre 2018 Changes Watson Arts Centre
2017 Underneath Tomorrow M16 Gallery Griffith ACT
2016 Works Smiths Alternative, Canberra City
2016 Friends and Relations Form Studio and Gallery queanbeyan
2015 Works Cork St Café Gundaroo
2014 Smaller Details of Suburbia Tuggeranong Arts Centre
2013 Fatherhood- From Infinity To Beyond Watson Arts Centre
2012 That’s You in the Corner The Front, Lyneham ACT
2012 Demon Dogs and Dudes The Q Space Queanbeyan
2012 Dig That Cray Beat Ilios Gallery Hackett ACT
2012 Walking The Dog Cork St Café Gundaroo
2011 Too Much Fun Watson Arts Centre
2011 Here There and Somewhere Else Ilios Gallery Hackett
2010 Rooms and Toons CIT Canberra
1999 Spiral Arm Gallery Canberra, ACT
1995 Front Door Gallery University Nevada USA
1994 Aries Art Armidale, NSW.
1993 Gorman House Canberra, ACT
1992 Treed Contemporary Art Space Canberra
AWARDS 2020 Doug Alexander Ceramics Award (Judge: Morag Fraser)
2016 Canberra Show Sculpture Award
2015 Australian Ceramics Canberra Award Potters 1991 Muswellbrook Art Award Highly commended
1983 Canberra Times National Art Award First place
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Imaginarium Belconnen Arts Centre
2014 CPS Members Exhibition Watson Arts Centre
2013 CPS Members Exhibition Watson Arts Centre
2011 The Salon Show Painter’s Gallery, Sydney
2011 Woof Cluck Moo CIT Canberra
2010 Flight Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2010 60% wool 40% nylon Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2009 Aluminium and Tin Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2009 Star Gazing Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2009 Bushwacked Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2001 Mixed Blessings ANCA Gallery Canberra
1999 The Drawing Show Spiral Arm Gallery Canberra, ACT
1999 Running With The Pack Spiral Arm Gallery Canberra, ACT.
1998 Dog’s Breakfast ANCA Gallery Canberra, ACT.
Recent Award Exhibitions 2011 Musswellbrook Art Award Finalists Musswellbrook Regional Art Gallery
Collections Artbank, Canberra Times
Newspapers, Journals Canberra Times “Steve Roper:Fatherhood” September 2014, by Ian Warden Muse Magazine “ Times Art Award” March 1983, by Tony Ayres
Employment Art Teacher ACT Department of Education, principally at Narrabundah College, 1987-2002. Teaching assistant, Watson Potters Society, 2013- 2019