A former student of the Vierzon ceramics school and the Bourges School of Fine Arts (where he met Jean Lerat) as well as the Paris School of Fine Arts, he has a solid background in drawing and painting. He arrived in La Borne in 1943 to work for François Guillaume with Jean Lerat in Armand Bedu's studio, thus escaping the STO (compulsory labor service) in Germany and living in La Borne illegally.

He then worked in Alphonse Talbot's workshop and succeeded him in 1958. 

In 1962, he created with Pierre Mestre, Yves Mohy, Claudine Monchaussé the association of potters of La Borne and the first of a series of annual exhibitions in the former workshop of the wheelwright Emile Foucher. The association of potters of La Borne succeeded the association and filed its statutes in 1971. It is the prefiguration of the current Association of potters and the Center of contemporary ceramics of La Borne. 

Founding member of the Association for the safeguard and protection of the pottery heritage and the site of La Borne, in 1987 he created with this association the Museum of traditional pottery in the old village chapel.

André Rozay has produced numerous utilitarian turned pieces and sculptures very often built from elements made on the wheel and glazed with ash.

With a very assertive stylization and vigorous forms, André Rozay renews the themes of the imagery and pottery of Bornois which are his favorite subjects. We owe him animal sculptures with very pure forms, portraits, busts of artists and full-length figures (like the shepherdess of Marie-Claire).

André Rozay also made numerous drawings in a nervous style on the theme of the pottery trade, some of which illustrate Robert Chaton's works devoted to La Borne.