Roger Buddle graduated from The School of Art, University of South Australia in 1994 with a Bachelor Degree in Design, Ceramics & Glass. He established a studio at Victor Harbor, South Australia in 1995. Roger has exhibited widely throughout Australia and overseas, including Germany, Portugal, Singapore and the USA.
The following text is extracted from an article by Dr Noris Ioannou in Craft Arts International No. 45:
"Sculptural or painterly, Roger Buddle’s ambidextrous versatility in the medium of glass is immediately apparent as he shuttles from figurative kiln work of extraordinary intricacy and elegant metaphoric content to vivid colour compositions on slumped glass… his work has continued to display an increasingly mature aesthetic sensibility while expressing various abstract or metaphorical ideas that emerge from a pragmatic but humanist vision. Although physically conceived and derived through multi-layered fusing and slumping techniques, these drew their inspiration from the works of painters such as Klimt and Mondrian. These are exercises of a painterly minimalism in glass – they exploit the clarity of colour, as well as the precision of colour hue that is possible with great clarity in glass… Decisive brushstrokes of colour endow these “still life” works with a visual strength, demonstrating how glass can transcend the decorative art barrier to become a work of contemporary fine art."
Roger gained his Masters Degree in Visual Arts in 1998. His thesis related to “spirituality of landscape” and was inspired by his love of the arid landscape of the Gammon Ranges in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia.