My Latest Exhibition

This is some of the work that is currently on exhibition at

artSPACEberlin
March 2008 01.03.2008 - 29.03.2008
Linienstr. 109
10115 Berlin
http://www.artspace-berlin.de/info@artspace-berlin.de
+49.(0)30.7229494585.

I am exhibiting wood panels that reflect my recent interest in computer generated imagery combined with my long term involvement with woodcut printmaking.

The old and the new interact with each other in a way which mirrors my own experience of life and art as an ongoing process of reinventing myself.

More Images from artSPACEberlin:

Flower I
2006/2007
136cm (h.) x 91 cm (w.)
Carved wood panel: acrylic paint, printers ink on superwood

Detail

Female
2006/2007
114 cm (h.) x 92 cm (w.)
Carved wood panel: acrylic paint, printers ink on superwood

The Process:

I use a computer to create the images. I project them onto a wood panel and then carve out the image by hand. This is what it looks like before I add the colour.

Comments

Nirmi Ziegler said…

Hi John,

Congratulations!!!

March 21, 2008 at 6:25 AM

Durban Rain, Sketch pad drawing.Pen on paper.

Drawings of Paris, Pen on Paper, 1995. Done during my residence at the Cite des Arts.

I was asked by the curator Derek Zietsman, to participate in this show. He chose four of my recent woodcut prints Brief artist’s statement on the works: All four prints speak directly to the theme of kakotopia and reflect a sense of unease, foreboding, and discomfort in a world where things seem to be falling apart. 1. Dark Street reflects my engagement with an area adjacent to my studio. My aim was to echo its sense of unease, foreboding and discomfort. 2. Waiting is based on things I see and people I come into contact with whilst walking through the town’s hustle and bustle (to my studio). I am interested in the gritty underbelly of my city rather than the “surf-city –holiday destination” image commonly associated with Durban. 3. Limping Buffalo is a metaphor for the state and a social comment on events associated with the #Feesmustfall student unrest in 2016. 4. There is a Buffalo on the Roof comments on our so...

John Roome

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