Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

65 EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 104 RICHARD PENN SOUTH AFRICAN 1976– Core signed, dated 12, numbered 3/10, inscribed with the title in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark linocut sheet size: 107 by 196 cm; image size: 89 by 179 cm R15 000 – 20 000 Richard Penn is a self-taught animator based in Johannesburg. He received a BA and MFA (2009) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Penn won the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition in 2004 and the Everard Read Art Award in 2006. He has held two solo exhibitions at Gallery AOP. He has co-animated two short films, and directed and animated three short films of his own. In 2010 he started STRANGE Blue duck, which offers stop-frame animation workshops to children and team- building workshops to corporates. ‘As an artist’, says Penn, ‘I am interested in science and in the origins of things: the origins of life itself (abiogenesis), as well as the origins of a more personal cast in terms of the hereditary nature of such traits as a distinctive mode of ‘gesture’ and of a personal ‘characteristic’… My work grasps at processes that lie beyond our horizons and outside of an evolutionary imperative to apprehend the universe’.