Artist

Richard Penn

My work is often ambiguously placed between the very large and the very small so that the same work can be said to describe the vastness of space and the interaction of galaxies as well as the infinitely small and the processes of cellular and atomic activities. I am interested in the extremes of reality where the known laws of our universe tend to break down as well as how we image reality starting with our eyes and brains, and then through the technology of science - transcending our physical limitations and extending our scope to dream.

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Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Highlights

Solo Exhibitions

2018

1s & 0s Pastel drawings and silkscreen prints, Everard Read, Johannesburg

2017

No Signal of drawings and paintings, Circa, Cape Town

2015

Drawings and oil paintings, The Origins Centre Museum, University of the Witwatersrand

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Group Exhibitions

2021

The Closest Thing I have to a Voice of Reason, Public Record, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 

2020

Tiny, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Us, Everard Read, Johannesburg

The Lockdown Collection, www.thelockdowncollection.com March 2020

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Richard Penn

Minute details materialise the whole

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Richard Penn talks to Artfull at his home studio in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.