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.
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Robyn PennNotes from the Frontier I , 2019oil on stretched canvas120 x 200 x 5 cm
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Robyn PennNotes from the Frontier II , 2019oil on stretched canvas120 x 200 x 5 cm
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Robyn PennThe Memory of Man II , 2019oil on stretched canvas100 x 150 x 5cm
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Robyn PennThe Memory of Man I, 2019oil on stretched canvas100 x 150 x 5cm
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Robyn PennThe Crumbling of Time, 2018/2019oil on linen board164 x 153 cmCourtesy of Demo GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Robyn PennA Chinese Hoax I, 2019Oil on Natural linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Chinese Hoax II, 2019Oil on Natural linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Chinese Hoax III, 2019Oil on Natural linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennThey live in deep time, in a way that we do not, 2019screen print on archival cotton-based paper56 x 76 cmEdition of 50Courtesy of Barnard GalleryCopyright Robyn Penn
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss I, 2019Oil on natural Linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss III, 2019Oil on natural Linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss IV, 2019Oil on natural Linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss V, 2019Oil on natural Linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss VI, 2019Oil on natural Linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss VII, 2019Oil on natural Linen40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss VIII, 2019oil on natural linen board40.5 x 51cmCourtesy of Demo GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Robyn PennA Stone / A Kiss IX, 2019Oil on natural Linen40 x 30 cm
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Robyn PennThings Persist in Time , 2019ink and bleach on stretched canvas43 x 50 cm
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Robyn PennAll the World is Green, 2017Oil on canvas100 x 80 cms
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Robyn PennAfter the failure of the Ideals III, 2019Indian Ink on paper114 x 86 cm
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Robyn PennSlight wind, becoming tempestuous in the afternoon, with rain all the night following, 2019Indian ink on paper130 x 150 cm
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Robyn Penn11 o'clock, sultry with warm, gentle rain falling, 2018Ink on paper58 x 85,5 cm
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Robyn PennPlane. looking northward, exceedingly bright vivid & glowing, 2018ink on paper58 x 85,5 cm
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Robyn PennWaves of Stone, 2019Indian ink on paper48 x 64 cm each
R 8,100 each | R 55,000 set (unframed)Courtesy of Demo GalleryCopyright The Artist -
Robyn PennOur Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past I , 2019oil on natural linen boards40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennOur Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past II, 2019oil on natural linen boards40.5 x 51 cm
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Robyn PennOur Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past IIIoil on natural linen boards40.5 x 51 cmCourtesy of Demo GalleryCopyright The Artist