Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
You must find a dramatic image to publicise your exhibition - that's what the #NAF18 organisers tell you. This year it was easy because Meagen gave me a photo shoot and we got some really striking images. For the photo shoot I made a set of motifs from tree ferns, branches and lightning that I... Continue Reading →
We collected another eight metal prints from Orms Print Room in Cape Town last week. They're going to be showcased in Metamorphosis, my fringe exhibition at the Johan Carinus Art Centre during the National Arts Festival 2018. The four monochrome prints are pictured here. They're unusual because they don't have any white. Instead the brushed aluminium... Continue Reading →
Metamorphosis is my theme for this years's exhibition on the Arts Festival Fringe at the Johan Carinus Art Centre. I've got 50+ images and more than 40 are new so with less than three months before opening I'm in constant communication with printers in Cape Town (Orms Print Room) and Port Elizabeth (Walker Digital). I'm... Continue Reading →
It's an unusual place - Grahamstown - located in a basin at the headwaters of the Kowie river. The poor black population in the eastern townships look across to the middle class suburbs on the other side of the valley. There are not many South African cities where black and white are so closely juxtaposed.... Continue Reading →
I always like to make a mosaic of the images I'm going to show. So this first picture's your overview of the 14 images that'll be up for sale at Space Creative and Culinary, 14 Fitzroy Street, Grahamstown on 28th October. They're almost all pictures of trees: Balanites, Baobab, Birch, Cabbage, Fig, Fever, Hornbeam, Oak,... Continue Reading →
We've been having lovely autumn weather with clear air, blue skies and low angle light that brings out all the changing colours. I've tried to capture this in these images and combined them into one pattern of autumn harmony. Going clockwise from the top right the inspiration was a bare tree in front of the... Continue Reading →
In a couple of month's time Grahamstown's Festival Gallery hosts its annual end-of.year exhibition. This year the theme is Summer in Miniatures - artworks have to be no bigger than 30 cms. I've decided to try out a submission with the idea of 'Summer Nights' and use a selection of four night pictures taken this... Continue Reading →
I'd like to start by saying how wonderful it was to receive so much positive feedback from so many people. That has meant a lot to me and pointed my work, and exhibition next year, firmly in a couple of directions. I'll post more of these ideas shortly. It was quite something to talk about my pictures with... Continue Reading →
The pictures are framed, the labeling's done, digital images uploaded for distribution, picture hooks, string and the rest of the exhibition paraphernalia are all just about ready to go. So I'm almost there! I'll be hanging the pictures on Tuesday 28th, with Harry Owen's assistance, and the finishing touches should be done on Wednesday. Thursday... Continue Reading →
It's been exciting this past couple of weeks seeing everything start to take shape. There will be 19 large format photographs for sale either as limited edition prints or as digital images at reduced size and resolution. A further 20 images from Symmetry in Nature will also be for sale in digital format along with the... Continue Reading →
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