Drawn in black marker with silver outline, Pierre le Riche’s Discus Diva 1 offers insight into the artist’s sketchbook. Described in only the barest of details, the page torn from a notepad, this figure study is as much a musing on a body in motion as it is a trace – a fragment from the studio reimagined as discrete art object.
Many of Pierre’s marker drawings were later reimagined as large, yarn-tufted tapestries towards his exhibition at THK Gallery, Urns for the Ashes of my Lost Lover: Part 1, which opened in May 2021. The presence of these bold silhouettes offers a new figuration in the artist’s practice. “While the tapestries are a continuation of his fibre-based work,” Sean O’Toole writes, “ the human subject was, until recently, implied rather than stated in Le Riche’s work.”
Pierre le Riche (b. 1986) is an artist living and working in Cape Town. He primarily works in sculpture and installation, and while he does not favour any one medium, he is perhaps best known for his yarnbombing and needlework.
Many of Pierre’s marker drawings were later reimagined as large, yarn-tufted tapestries towards his exhibition at THK Gallery, Urns for the Ashes of my Lost Lover: Part 1, which opened in May 2021. The presence of these bold silhouettes offers a new figuration in the artist’s practice. “While the tapestries are a continuation of his fibre-based work,” Sean O’Toole writes, “ the human subject was, until recently, implied rather than stated in Le Riche’s work.”
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Pierre le Riche (b. 1986) is an artist living and working in Cape Town. He primarily works in sculpture and installation, and while he does not favour any one medium, he is perhaps best known for his yarnbombing and needlework.