From figuration to abstraction
Through close investigation of photographs of my father, I traced a path from figuration to abstraction where the grain of the image, magnified in the darkroom, dissolved into something cosmic, merging the intimate with the infinite.
Short story: The word for it
After a collaborative residency with me at the Nirox Foundation in the Cradle of Humankind, Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown wrote this short story to accompany my exhibition Surface Detail at the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand in 2015.
Review: Mad Infinitum
Review: Horizon
by Oliver Roberts 22 November 2015
Artist Richard Penn is dotty about the cosmos — and will never give up his search for the unfindable. He spoke to Oliver Roberts about his new show in Joburg
