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Robyn Penn
News from Another World, 5 March - 9 April 2019

Robyn Penn: News from Another World

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Preoccupied with the crisis of climate change, the work of Robyn Penn (b.1973) sees images of clouds, glaciers and oceans act as recurring references to climate change debates as well as symbols for an uncertainty and unease that is both global and personal. Influenced by Romanticism as well as Japanese ukiyo-e painting, Penn’s meditative renderings across various media – including painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture – explore the opposing feelings of intense anxiety and acute wonder that characterise the Sublime. Penn alludes at times to fleshy corpulence in her renderings of pink toned, painterly clouds in oils; while in her prints and ink drawings she explores feelings of mutability and intangibility in complex mark making and deft use of contrast.
  • Robyn Penn, Notes from the Frontier I , 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Notes from the Frontier I , 2019
    oil on stretched canvas
    120 x 200 x 5 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Notes from the Frontier II , 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Notes from the Frontier II , 2019
    oil on stretched canvas
    120 x 200 x 5 cm
  • Robyn Penn, The Memory of Man II , 2019
    Robyn Penn
    The Memory of Man II , 2019
    oil on stretched canvas
    100 x 150 x 5cm
  • Robyn Penn, The Memory of Man I, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    The Memory of Man I, 2019
    oil on stretched canvas
    100 x 150 x 5cm
  • Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time, 2018/2019
    Robyn Penn
    The Crumbling of Time, 2018/2019
    oil on linen board
    164 x 153 cm
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
    Copyright The Artist
  • Robyn Penn, A Chinese Hoax I, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Chinese Hoax I, 2019
    Oil on Natural linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Chinese Hoax II, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Chinese Hoax II, 2019
    Oil on Natural linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Chinese Hoax III, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Chinese Hoax III, 2019
    Oil on Natural linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, They live in deep time, in a way that we do not, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    They live in deep time, in a way that we do not, 2019
    screen print on archival cotton-based paper
    56 x 76 cm
    Edition of 50
    Courtesy of Barnard Gallery
    Copyright Robyn Penn
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss I, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss I, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss III, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss III, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss IV, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss IV, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss V, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss V, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss VI, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss VI, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss VII, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss VII, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss VIII, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss VIII, 2019
    oil on natural linen board
    40.5 x 51cm
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
    Copyright The Artist
  • Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss IX, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    A Stone / A Kiss IX, 2019
    Oil on natural Linen
    40 x 30 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Things Persist in Time , 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Things Persist in Time , 2019
    ink and bleach on stretched canvas
    43 x 50 cm
  • Robyn Penn, All the World is Green, 2017
    Robyn Penn
    All the World is Green, 2017
    Oil on canvas
    100 x 80 cms
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    Courtesy of Barnard Gallery
    Copyright Robyn Penn
  • Robyn Penn, After the failure of the Ideals III, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    After the failure of the Ideals III, 2019
    Indian Ink on paper
    114 x 86 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Slight wind, becoming tempestuous in the afternoon, with rain all the night following, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Slight wind, becoming tempestuous in the afternoon, with rain all the night following, 2019
    Indian ink on paper
    130 x 150 cm
  • Robyn Penn, 11 o'clock, sultry with warm, gentle rain falling, 2018
    Robyn Penn
    11 o'clock, sultry with warm, gentle rain falling, 2018
    Ink on paper
    58 x 85,5 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Plane. looking northward, exceedingly bright vivid & glowing, 2018
    Robyn Penn
    Plane. looking northward, exceedingly bright vivid & glowing, 2018
    ink on paper
    58 x 85,5 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Waves of Stone, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Waves of Stone, 2019
    Indian ink on paper
    48 x 64 cm each
    R 8,100 each | R 55,000 set (unframed)
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
    Copyright The Artist
  • Robyn Penn, Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past I , 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past I , 2019
    oil on natural linen boards
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past II, 2019
    Robyn Penn
    Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past II, 2019
    oil on natural linen boards
    40.5 x 51 cm
  • Robyn Penn, Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past III
    Robyn Penn
    Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past III
    oil on natural linen boards
    40.5 x 51 cm
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
    Copyright The Artist

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