Alan Basil Grobler Artist/Printmaker

Saturday, 30 December 2017

"The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion". - Chris Ofili


Ready for 2018


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Thursday, 28 December 2017

Update on work, Resurrecting family ghosts charccoal on Fabriano, 1210mm x 750mm

DONE & DUSTED
'Resurrecting Family Ghosts', charccoal on Fabriano, 1210mm x 750mm








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Sunday, 24 December 2017

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” ― Andy Warhol

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Saturday, 23 December 2017

Grays Elegy re-worked, charcoal on Fabriano 750mm x 1400mm


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10 June 2016, MUSTRISE - group exhibition @ artEC Gallery, Bird St, Central. Port Elizabeth





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Friday, 22 December 2017

POSTERS - EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS ETC.

TAFTA  Celebrity Auction, 2014







TAFTA  Celebrity Auction, 2013












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Linocut - 'Nelson Mandela' published in Bible and Mission in Africa, Selected Articles, Bob Wielenga, Interpak Books, 2014; Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon, Toyin Falola, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2014

‘Nelson Mandela’, image size:  288 x 383mm

https://www.aiga.org/mandela-poster-project-part-i



www.nelsonmandelachildrenshospital.org/mandela-poster-project-poster-collection-so...
https://www.thetrendyman.com/single-po…/2017/…/22/MANDELA-95






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Linocuts, Gothenborg, Sweden (images are hand printed by applying a burnishing technique and printed on 105gsm Hahnemühle bamboo in small editions)










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Thursday, 21 December 2017

At work in the studio


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Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Article acknowledgement: RISE e-Newsletter, official in-house online publication of the NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY, vol. 12.3, 20 December 2017





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Reduction woodcut: Portrait (images are hand printed by applying a burnishing technique and printed on 105gsm Hahnemühle bamboo in small editions)






‘Woman in a Niquab’, ed. 5/6, 338 x 360mm



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Woodcut (images are hand printed by applying a burnishing technique and printed on 105gsm Hahnemühle bamboo in small editions)








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Linocut/woodcut: South African icons (images are hand printed by applying a burnishing technique and printed on 105gsm Hahnemühle bamboo in small editions)

‘Nelson Mandela’, ed.  5/6, 288 x 383mm




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Alan Grobler - visual artist. Charcoal Drawing, Woodcut & Linocut printmaking
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Born in 1954 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He graduated with distinctions in printmaking and book illustration from the College for Advanced Technical Education, 1980. He worked briefly in advertising and was later commissioned as a freelance book illustrator. In 2008, presented a printmaking workshop in Sweden. He works in the medium of printmaking, charcoal drawing and acrylic on canvas. He exhibited on numerous solo, regional and overseas group exhibitions A poster design based on a print depicting the four corner stones of the life of Nelson Mandela, was included in the Official 95 International Mandela Poster Project and traveling exhibition. In 2014, he was recipient of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Sponsor Choice Award for a woodcut entry towards the Wish You Were Here Selector’s traveling exhibition. In 2016, he was selected to be part of a local adjudication panel for the 97th Annual Exhibition, Port Elizabeth. During 2017 and 2018, he became recipient of an award from the Regional Department of Arts and Culture, Eastern Cape, for work submitted towards curated exhibitions, TRUTH BE TOLD and THE MEANING held in Port Elizabeth.
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