In fragments from the artist’s notebooks, the provisional finds a graphic expression. Drawn in bold coloured markers with stylised figuration, this selection of formal studies offer insight into Pierre le Riche’s vivid imaginings.
In Study with colourful bands, the outlined form of a figure is imposed on bands of colour. The figure – white save its black outline – is otherwise undefined; a bright silhouette in a deconstructed rainbow.
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.
In Study with colourful bands, the outlined form of a figure is imposed on bands of colour. The figure – white save its black outline – is otherwise undefined; a bright silhouette in a deconstructed rainbow.
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.”
29.7 x 20.6cm | marker on cartridge paper | unique
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.