Piece description from the artist
This piece is a made of a heavily patined old masonite wooden door. I etched and stained and painted the door until it became a map like surface of a city from the air – Lagos in this instance. It forms part of the unbonded series. I liked the use of an old door from a house, with all the marks of the previous users to create this optimistic map of the city
Born in 1964, Richard Ketley has been an artist since he was at school and held his first solo exhibition while still a student at Hyde Park High School. Richard holds a MFA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Like many South African artists he started his career selling paintings on a Sunday at Artists in the Sun, before achieving representation by the Sandton Gallery, Johannesburg. After university he moved to the UK and then Uganda where he held his next major exhibition at the National Gallery in Kampala, Uganda. After a twenty year break he returned to painting in 2010. Since then he has held exhibitions in South Africa, Nigeria, UAE, Ghana and Uganda. Some of his most recent work has been shortlisted for the SA Taxi Art Award (2015 and 2016).
Today, Richard works principally in charcoal, acrylic and oil, and seeks to develop images that are drawn from life but which extend the viewer’s imagination. When he is not painting, he runs a consulting business. He commutes between Johannesburg and Dubai, and travels widely in both Africa and the Middle East.
Represented: XVA Gallery, Dubai
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