JAUME ROIG

A great admirer of the mural art of prehistoric caves and primitive art, his sources of
artistic inspiration come from those cultures that still preserve an ancestral and
authentic essence. Other sources closer to home are the Mallorcan artists of the 1980s,
the sculptor Ferran Aguiló and the painter Rafel Joan, together with international
personalities such as the Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi and the abstract ceramics of
the German Hans Coper.
Jaume Roig, born in 1981 in Palma, is an artist trained in the field of ceramics. He
grew up very close to this discipline thanks to his mother, who had a traditional
ceramic studio in Palma. His artistic work arises from a need for creative expression
beyond the produc- tion of utilitarian ceramics. Jaume thus begins his more personal
search process, making ceramic sculptures and paintings with different clays and
natural pigments. Thanks to the natural environment in which the artist develops his
work he has recently introduced wood sculptures, the fallen tree trunks found around
his workshop in the south of the island of Mallorca.
Jaume Roig’s artistic career has been accompanied by numerous local exhibitions
since 2013, exhibiting his works in different centres: Casa de Cultura in Felanitx
(2017), Coll Bardolet Foundation in Valldemossa (2016), CAC its Vueltas a Palma
(2015), and win- ner of the Benet Mas prize, Feria de Barro in Marratxí (2017) and a
solo exhibition in Aba Art Lab Gallery, (2018).