Guests

David Osbaldeston (Great Britain, 1968)
September - November 2010

From September 1, guest resident David Osbaldeston (GB, 1968) is staying at the Rijksakademie for 3 months. His installations are built up from drawing, different print techniques as well as photography, using techniques of media (photojournalism) and advertising in the work. For his recent solo show Out of Time. (The Light of Day/The Action of Play) in Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, he worked on several journalistic images. Re-photographed, appropriated and re-presented by him with textual snippets, amplified in scale and printed on 1980s Ilford photographic paper, the works draw attention, both physically and psychologically, to the constructed nature of the photographic image. During his period at the Rijksakademie he will focus on further exploration of drawing and collage through printed media, such as lithography and film photography.

Jimmy Ogonga (Kenya, 1977)
August - November 2010

Jimmy Ogonga is an artist working in different media such as photography, sculpture and installation. He started his artistic career by drawing romanticized portraits of political icons. Later he made sculptures and installations in which both modern elements and elements from traditional art forms were combined. His works have been shown in exhibitions in Kenya, Germany, Spain, USA and South Africa, and he participated in workshops and residencies in Addis Abeba, Kassel (for Documenta 12), Brussels and Johannesburg. Recently Jimmy Ogonga was interviewed about one of his latest projects, Amnesia, read the interview here.

Peterson Kamwathi Waweru (Kenya, 1980)
March - July 2010

Kamwathi is currently working on the theme relating to queues and their symbolism. His recent work deals with queues as basic manifestation of change and transition in human life. Peterson Kamwathi wants to depict the historical, social, economic and psychological systems of conditioning and manipulation, triumph and defeat, symbolized and represented by queuing, both in contemporary as in historical contexts. Beside the drawings he is working on a set of large-scale woodcuts in relation to this theme.

Tom Gidley (Great Britain, 1968)
February - May 2010

Tom Gidley is a visual artist working with video, painting, photography. Writing is an important part of his pratice. In 2005 he published his first novel Stunning Lofts. That book came out of his visual practice, and later informed his art works. There is a 'cross-pollonation' between the different practices, as he would name it. His main focus during his stay at the Rijksakademie will be writing his new novel Peasouper. Next to that he will continue with the visual work alongside the projects and explore the potential for art works that will come out of the writing.
Website Tom Gidley


guest residents in 2009

David Osbaldeston - installation view Castlefiel Gallery, Manchester


Jimmy Ogonga - Awaris Hotel (Addis Ababa Series), 2009


Peterson Kamwathi Waweru - Untitled (religious institutions?), 2008


Tom Gidley - Peasouper, 2009