Rogers is based in Margate and although their work is rooted in movement, it expands to many other forms of expression – whatever is necessary – including film, ceramics, drawing and installation. They are currently showing a selection of their ceramic “future artefacts” as part of CLOSE gallery’s Rock Paper Scissors exhibition in Somerset – “handbags, baseball caps, belt and thongs – all remnants from my time as a go-go dancer and drag stripper in East London’s club scene.”

Every month, Rogers leads movement workshops for non-professionals at TKE studios. “I’m loving the community that is building and it thrills me to see people who have very little experience of dancing themselves utterly throw down and express themselves with full ecstatic force.” More movement workshops and life drawing classes are planned at Turner Contemporary next year, and Rogers also belongs to the inaugural TURPS group – a platform supporting painters through studio spaces and special events.

Dame Tracey Emin is Rogers’ champion for The Wick. She said: “We invited Ted to be a performance artist in residence at TKE Studios because I love the way he dances. Ted is a choreographer and multi disciplined artist, every thing they do tells a story, always personal but something Ted’s audience can easily relate to. Ted’s dancing is electric , gravity is not an issue. There are highs and lows, moments of anger and calm. Over the last two years Ted has been successfully transforming his emotions from dance to canvas. Exploding, deep, heavy, moving, a constant roll of integral feelings, from inspiring enlightenment to the end of the world. There is a beautiful line out there, that Ted walks with passion. I look forward to seeing where they go.”

The possibilities, as far as Rogers is concerned, are infinite. They explain that inspiration comes from “churches, the floor, grey skies, music, crunchy humanity, white on white on white on white, music videos, album covers, low light glow, sexy corridors, mountains and the mist.” They are currently expanding their abstract language in painting, exploring a whole new visual world. “I like extremes rather than the mid-tones. I love spaciousness and asymmetry. Im excited by atmosphere more than things.”

Rogers says they “love being autistic” but admits that “the world can feel closed, with so much “NO” and blockage. Opening out feels like a way through, a way forward, a way to exist, a way to resist.” Among their proudest achievements as an artist to date has been “learning to clear the noise, slow it down and address my inner world – watching my outer world shift as a result.

Choosing open-ness, joy and faith in a world that seems to have lost its sanctity feels like an ongoing achievement, a daily victory, the path ahead.” No matter the medium the message in Rogers’ works is always clear – believe in something. “I am a romantic always inspired by light hitting the wall. Small joy is believing, moving is believing, sculpting, drawing, poetry, painting, magic is all believing. Even if we have to pass through disbelief to believe. This is what inspires me!”