Go see this
You may or may not remember, but almost a year ago I talked about an artist called Rod Holdaway. I was visiting the AGNSW when I came across a work that he had entered in the 2009 Dobell Prize. At the time I was extremely frustrated because I couldn’t track down an image of the work to share with you.
Very kindly, Rod has recently been in contact with me and provided me with an image. This be it:
Rod Holdaway | Morning Traffic, Enmore Rd | 2009
I kind of feel like it was worth the wait, don’t you? It’s lovely.
If you are in Sydney, I really encourage you to get along to Stella Downer Fine Art, 2 Danks St, Waterloo. Rod has an exhibition on currently, which runs until 17 December.
Stella Downer Fine Art has also kindly sent me a bit of information about the exhibition:
ROD HOLDAWAY’S tonal paintings and drawings of suburban life possess a kinetic intensity. HOLDAWAY has a fascination with the built environment. Applying gestural lines, he traces his surroundings as if re-imagining them onto the page. As he fragments and dissects, winds and navigates his way through familiar streetscapes their materiality is simultaneously captured and dissolved. Internalising shifting states of mind, these images suggest a universal register of human feeling that underpins our sense of place.
