about roey
My first brush with celebrity was being corralled by a passing newspaper photographer and ending up on the front page of the Brisbane Telegraph, at the age of seven. News was slow that day.
A founding member of the Guild of Australian Songwriters, I have written many songs over the years and performed in the USA, Australia, South Africa, England, Ireland, and Canada.

Songs can be heard at MUSIC on this website, at Diamonds and Rain.
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Maleny,Qld, 2013
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Brisbane folk club, '70s
My career was in book publishing as an art director, graphic designer and illustrator, with such companies as John Murray (London), Brassey's (Washington), and Director of Art and Design for Jacaranda-Wiley (Brisbane).

Samples of my fine art and illustration work are at ART on this website.
I  had the good fortune to work at John Murray, in London, a company which remained in the same family from 1768 until 2002. They published Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Goethe, and Charles Darwin.

I was their first work release student, and it helped pay my way through the Brookes University publishing course at Oxford. 


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Roey riding Grace, at Star Hill