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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.
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Available Artworks
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Robyn Penn, Notes from the Frontier I , 2019
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Robyn Penn, Notes from the Frontier II , 2019
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Robyn Penn, The Memory of Man I, 2019
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Robyn Penn, The Memory of Man II , 2019
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Robyn Penn, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters II , 2011
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Robyn Penn, After the failure of the Ideals II, 2017
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Robyn Penn, A Fable for tomorrow, 2020
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Robyn Penn, Sketch III for screenprint Objects of my affection, 2020
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Robyn Penn, Sketch for screenprint Objects of my affection, 2020
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Robyn Penn, In process image of Objects of my affection II, 2020
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Robyn Penn, Sketch for Objects of my affection, 2020
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Robyn Penn, Sketch II for screenprint Objects of my affection, 2020
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Robyn Penn, All the World is Green, 2017
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Robyn Penn, Warped Time, 2020
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Robyn Penn, Ceci n'est pas un nuage, 2015
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Robyn Penn, Géricault's cloud , 2017
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Robyn Penn, Burning down the house I, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time I, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time V, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time IV, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time VI, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time II, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time XI, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time X, 2018
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Robyn Penn, The Crumbling of Time XII, 2018
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Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss IX, 2019
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Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss V, 2019
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Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss VI, 2019
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Robyn Penn, A Stone / A Kiss VII, 2019
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Robyn Penn, In praise of shadows, 2020
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Robyn Penn, They live in deep time, in a way that we do not, 2019
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Robyn Penn, Things Persist in Time , 2019
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Robyn Penn, Our Present Swarms with Traces of Our Past II, 2019
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Penn was awarded the Ampersand Fellowship, New York in 2012 and has been a finalist in both the Sasol New Signatures Competition (2002 and 2003) and the Absa L’Atelier competition (2005). Selected exhibitions include News from Another World (Barnard, Cape Town, 2019); New Romantics (Barnard, Cape Town, 2018); Fluid: Perspectives in Paint (Barnard, Cape Town, 2017); Natural Selection (KKNK Festival, Oudsthoorn, 2017); /’ATMES,FIR/ (David Krut Projects, New York, 2017); Paradise Lost (Barnard, Cape Town, 2017); Cloud of Unknowing (2016, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg); Cumulus (2015, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg); Postcard (2014, Art First Projects, London); and Echo (David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, 2013).
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