Peter Rodulfo

Peter Rodulfo (born 1958) is a British artist and sculptor who spent much of his childhood travelling across India and Australia, before settling in Norwich, UK. He studied at the Norwich school of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) from 1975 to 1979. While based in Norwich he has travelled extensively; he was artist in residence at The Barony of Fulwood Trust Foundation Goiana, Brazil in 2004, and artist in residence at Shenzhen, China during 2012–13 and in 2016, Artist in Residence at The Barony of Fulwood Trust, Open For Art Project at Fundao, Portugal.

Rodulfo re-located to the Norfolk coastal town of Great Yarmouth in 2012 where he is a member of the 'Yarmouth Six'. He is also, conjointly with Mark Burrell, a leading member of the art movement known as the North Sea Magical Realists.

Themes and influences

Rodulfo is a prolific painter, working predominantly in oils on canvas, occasionally in the medium of sculpture. His paintings are loosely associated in their imagery and symbolism to Magical Realism, exploring themes, often with great humour, such as love and loss, the erosion of memory, natural and fantasy landscape, the elements, along animals, real and imaginary.

His art is thematically and stylistically similar to the work of Paul Klee, Max Ernst and the British surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). However his influences, along with the subject-matter, style and imagery of his paintings remain wide and experimental, occasionally esoteric.

One art critic appraises his work thus –

Exhibitions

Rodulfo has now exhibited his paintings over a time-span of 35 years in many cities and countries, including France, Switzerland, Miami and New York, Brazil, Hong Kong and China, as well as throughout the UK.
* " 2021 " The Art Gallery - Lowestoft. ( www.theartgallery.uk. ) Nov. 6th -27th
* ''2018'' ''Walk through Walls'', Peter Rodulfo's ''Yarmouth Collection'' Skippings Gallery, Great Yarmouth
* ''2015'' PAINT Norwich Market Undercroft, 7–30 November
* ''2015'' Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk 15 August – 5 September
* ''2014'' Feng Lin Shan shui International art exhibition, Shenzhen, China –
: Divine, Define Feminine. London. UK
: Great Yarmouth Library Norfolk with Mark Burrell
* ''2013'' Solo show. Da Wang cultural Highlands, Shenzhen, China
* ''2012'' 'Outside the white cube'. Open show Bermondsey, London – Open show. Radcliffe's and Newman's.
: London -'Vision and Reality'. Norwich Castle Museum.
: 'Race into time', two person show with Stephen Vince. The Gallery, Cork St. London
* ''2011'' Two person show with Mark Burrell at Norwich Playhouse.
* ''2007'' Solo show "from Basel to Brasilia" Miami USA
* ''2006'' Retrospective exhibition. Thin Cube Gallery, UK'
* ''2005'' ''Cor da Carne''. Brasilia, Brazil – ''Landscape 200'', Castle Open Art Show, Norwich Castle Museum. UK.
* ''2004'' Solo show ''Flamboyant'', Gioania, Brazil – ''Cor da Carne'', Gioania, Brazil
: Solo show Brazilian art exchange gallery, Brasilia, Brazil.
* ''2003'' 'Brave Destiny', New York and Florida
* ''2002'' Solo show Auditorio Ambrosio Orepeza, Venezuela – Art of Imagination open show Cork St. London
: Solo show Gallerie du Marche, Montreux, Switzerland.
* ''2000'' Kelburn Castle, Glasgow – Royal Academy Summer Show, London
* ''1999'' Heifer Gallery, London
* ''1998'' Wahrenberger Gallery, Zurich – Sculpture Trail, Burgh Apton, Norfolk – New York Expo, New York
* ''1997'' Wrentham Studios – "Shock of the New" – Suffolk Polish Cultural Institute, London – Bergh Apton Sculpture Trail, Norfolk
* ''1996'' Miami Art Fair, USA – New Mill Gallery, Norwich – Heifer Gallery, London – Price Waterhouse, London
* ''1995'' Art'95 "Savannah", London – Contemporary Print Fair – The Barbican, London
* ''1994'' One Man Show – Heifer Gallery, London – Peterborough Museum – Heifer Gallery, Peterborough, Southwark Arts Festival, London
: Miami Art Fair – Ho Gallery, USA
* ''1993'' Castle Art Show ~ Castle Museum, Norwich – Touchstone Gallery, Hong Kong
* ''1992'' Royal Cliff, Pattaya, Thailand, Smith's Gallery, London – Mysterious Presence, Norwich – V.A.C. Hong Kong Museum, Hong Kong
* ''1991'' Art'91 Business Design Centre, Royal Society London
: Birmingham Smith's Gallery, London,
: One Man Show – Village Gallery, London
* ''1990'' Larger Works – Arcade Gallery, Norwich, Art'90 – Business Design Centre, London – Centre d'Art Contemporin, Rouen –
: School House Gallery, Wighton,
: One Man Show Contact Gallery, Norwich
* ''1988'' Men at Work – Contact Gallery, Norwich – Larger Works – Arcade Gallery, Norwich, One Man Show – Dan lan De Bairead Gallery, London
: School House Gallery, Wighton – One Man Show – Contact Gallery, Norwich
* ''1987'' One Man Show – Arts Centre, Lowestoft – Jablonski Gallery, London
* ''1986'' One Man Show – Kingsgate Gallery, London
* ''1985'' Margaret Fisher, London
* ''1984'' School House Gallery, Wighton
* ''1983'' Norwich 20's – Caste Museum, Norwich, Manfred Schuler Gallery, Zurich, One Man Show – Christ's Hospital, Horsham
* ''1982'' Solo Show – Margaret Fisher, London – Six Artists of Individuality, Ipswich – Norwich 20's – UEA, Norwich
* ''1981'' – Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich – Solo Show – Woodstock Gallery, London
* ''1980'' – Norwich 20's Castle Museum, Norwich – Solo show Margaret Fisher gallery, London
* ''1978'' Solo Show -''Rare Bird'', Norwich

References

External links

Peter Rodulfo Art

A film about Peter Rodulfo

Recent work by Peter Rodulfo







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British contemporary artists
1958 births
21st-century British artists
Living people
People associated with Norwich University of the Arts