Rob Cherry
‘Like an open mic on a psychiatrist’s couch, Robs drawings are a symphony of futile longing. A Barium meal for the nations soul. Cherry's crude characters revel in their despair.’
Stuart Mckenzie
Rob Cherry is a self taught artist who lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. He has maintained a diverse artistic practice for over four decades.
Rob started out with drawing and print making in the late 1980’s and has since explored hard edged abstraction, sculpture, readymades, collage and photography.
More recently he has returned to his crude, psychological and revealing drawing style as a way of attempting to understand and/or satirise the world around us and within him.
Influenced by artists such as Beni Bishof, Dash Snow and Anne-Marie Schneider, Cherry’s work confronts the absurdity, awe, pain, shame, disappointment and joy of our existence.
-
Rob Cherry | It's not the end of the world
{Suite} Wellington 20 Sep - 15 Oct 2023'Like an open-mic on a psychiatrist's couch, Rob's drawings are a symphony of futile longing. A barium meal for the nation's soul. Cherry's crude characters revel in their despair'. Stuart...Read more -
Rob Cherry | Image Problem
{Suite} Ponsonby 3 - 27 Aug 2022In his first dealer gallery exhibition outside of Wellington, one of the 'least acclaimed artists of his generation,” Rob Cherry presents a set of drawings… 'My drawings are autobiographical, reflecting...Read more -
Rob Cherry, Bena Jackson | Golden Light at the Dairy
{Suite} Wellington 2 - 26 Sep 2020 -
Rob Cherry | The Shit
{Suite} Wellington 30 Mar - 22 Apr 2017 -
Rob Cherry | awesome buzz
{Suite} Wellington 7 Jul - 1 Aug 2015 -
Rob Cherry | Big People Little Trees
{Suite} Wellington 2 - 26 Jul 2014 -
Rob Cherry | Broken Spectacles
PATAKA Art + Museum 27 Sep - 28 Oct 2012 -
Rob Cherry | 1x spanakopita, 2 x misc
{Suite} Wellington 4 - 28 Apr 2012 -
Rob Cherry | Sow seeds of kindness to reap a crop of Friends
{Suite} Wellington 24 Feb - 19 Mar 2011 -
Rob Cherry | Meadow Fresh
{Suite} Wellington 3 - 27 Jun 2009
-
Rob Cherry
Art Collector Issue 84 May 3, 2018Rob Cherry is featured in the latest edition of Art Collector (Issue 84)Read more -
Cut + Paste
The Dowse, Fishhead Magazine May 1, 2015Wayne Youle, Ans Westra & Rob Cherry featured in Mary-Jane Duffy's piece on Cut + Paste at The Dowse, Fishhead Magazine, May 2015Read more