Graham Rendoth Volgorde van de boeken

Bent is a graphic collection by Graham Rendoth that includes 97 pen and digital images that explore notions of line, space and mass. The coathanger drawings evolved from long-lost works made from wire coathangers that came from his mother's dry-cleaning shop. His cloud-like popcorns are the only evidence that the corns were ever popped, as each buttery piece was devoured immediately after being profiled. Other images reflect his interests in different realms of physics and nature - there is enjoyment in following his line move around the page to find out where it never knew it was going. What should be an odd family of figurative and abstract images now live together in a comfortably bent way within these pages. As said by artist/cartoonist Reg Lynch , who wrote the pithy 'These lovely, clear, unselfconscious drawings are like X-rays or biological slides or coat hangers. To be looked through, out to a vastness beyond and at the same time back in, to us humans.'

From 1975 for about 200 days each year over four years Graham Rendoth travelled one-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus from my Wiley Park home in Sydney's south-west to study at Randwick Technical College and later to Sydney College of the Arts in Balmain. That was a lot of travel, with time to think about college projects, read, and to look at people. For decades as a traveller on public transport, these rear-view portraits have been a discreet way to sketch fellow travellers, while avoiding the confrontation of looking at these 'sitters' directly, he still fondly captures something of their essence and their immediate space. He sees a challenge in capturing just enough detail so that each person remained individual. The photographs are more recent, but again there is a need to wonder about what that person is thinking and how they fit into this world. With pencil and pen, digital sketches, photography, collage and printmaking, the 226 drawings in Rear View are a diverse, fresh alternative to traditional face-view portraits. There are also 43 photographs.