Roderick Bamford

Roderick Bamford is an Australian artist and designer working in ceramics, digital technologies, and related media. Bamford’s research explores relationships between virtual and material ecologies—how our engagement with the designed objects and the meaning they embody is mediated by technology. He investigates themes using digital technologies such as 3D scanning, rapid prototyping, and digital printing, incorporating digitally mediated experiences to create” transmedia” objects.

For a number of years Bamford’s artwork has investigated the aesthetics of tension between development, redundancy, and waste, in exhibitions such as Urban Debris at the National Gallery of Australia and Insensible Landscape at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin.

Bamford has been awarded commissions and residencies, participated in exhibitions, and presented numerous lectures internationally. His work is held in major Australian public collections, including national and state galleries in Australia, and in museum collections in Europe, Asia, and the US. As president of the Crafts Council of New South Wales he led the establishment of the respected journal Object Magazine. In 1999, his studio received an Australian Designex Award.