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Robert Offor "New City Rising" This Artwork is: NEW Lithograph with Metallic Printing Gold Embossed Signature Custom Framed in a Black Speckled Wood Frame Framed Size : 26" x 40" Image Size: 22"x 36" Hanging hardware included on back of frame Interested in different framing? Contact us!! THE FRAMING ALONE IS WORTH OVER $150 Robert Offord Drawing, Painting, Collage and Constructionist Artist Statement: "I cross boundaries and work in many different media, from conventional painting and drawing to 3D boxed constructions which can seem to extrapolate a vast alternative reality from some humble found object. A common theme which has reoccured in my work for many years is the juxtaposition and contrast of elements. These can be anything from natural forms compared with man-made fabrications, to geometrical order vs the chaos of randomness. I both explore opposites and propose similies. Figurative and abstract, body and soul, or simply earth and sky. Robert Offord was one of the founder members of the London Gay Men’s Chorus and a successful artist. Many of his art pieces were reproduced and sold as pictures and posters, and he regularly exhibited work in major exhibitions and art galleries, including the Royal Institute, the New English Art Club, Bankside, and the Mall Gallery. Robert created all of his life, even working right through his cancer treatment creating artworks, jewelry and sculpture in mixed mediums, often abstract and using recycled materials. He studied jewelry and ceramics at Middlesex University and graduated in 1981 with a first class degree. He taught life drawing for a short time at the Bezalel Art College in Jerusalem and after attaining a teaching qualification went on to lead several different art classes at Southgate Technical College. Robert was active in artists’ circles and groups in Palmers Green and across North London, where he had lived all his life. This included exhibiting at Salisbury House as part of the Enfield Art Circle. He said of his work: “I cross boundaries and work in many different media, from conventional painting and drawing to 3D boxed constructions which can seem to extrapolate a vast alternative reality from some humble found object. A common theme, which has reoccurred in my work for many years, is the juxtaposition and contrast of elements. These can be anything from natural forms compared with man-made fabrications, to geometrical order, versus the chaos of randomness. “I both explore opposites and propose similes. Figurative and abstract, body and soul, or simply earth.” Robert was an advocate and activist for social justice, motivated and active politically. He died of pneumonia aged 67 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.