Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
A2024.010 |
Title |
Cross Cut Traditional Ontario Folk Songs Revisited |
Object Name |
Print, Linocut |
Date |
2022 |
Collection |
Rob Niezen fonds |
Scope & Content |
This fonds consists of three artist print linocuts by Rob Niezen selected from his exhibit Cross Cut, Folk Songs of Early Ontario held at the Museum from February 3 until May 25, 2024. |
Description Note |
Rob Niezen is a painter, printmaker and illustrator. He paints in a style that is grounded in classic and impressionistic oil painting practice, yet influenced by European graphic novels and Dutch graphic tradition. In printmaking he creates narrative works, experimenting primarily with linocuts. His art has been shown in a dozen solo exhibitions, as well as in over forty juried exhibitions, and he has participated in the annual Kawartha Studio Tour from 2010 to 2021 (organized and juried by Art Gallery of Peterbrough). In 2018 he was one of the selected artists included in Roll-O-Matic, Public Acts of Printmaking, as part of ArtsWeek Peterborough. Rob created the illustrations for Ameliya Disappears, a children’s book published in 2021 by Jamaican author Angela Punky Stultz. Recent printmaking projects include his Heads & Tales series that combines linoprint, blind deboss, collage (stamps), and text, and Cross Cut: traditional Ontario folk songs revisited, an exhibition of linocuts that first showed at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in 2022, and has subsequently been shown at five other museums and art galleries in 2023 and 2024. A songbook coproduced with music historian Dr. Allan Kirby, and a music CD with traditional music group Backwoodsmen are also part of the Cross Cut project. In 2015 Peterborough County awarded Rob Niezen a Leadership in Arts & Culture Recognition Award. He was a board member at the Art School of Peterborough for six years, and is still involved as a volunteer. His work is in public, private and corporate collections across Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Rob Niezen is partly self taught and studied at Vrije Akademies in The Hague and Delft, Netherlands, (drawing and painting), at the Art School of Peterborough (painting), and at the Haliburton School of the Arts (printmaking). He was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, and lives and works in Douro, Ontario, Canada. www.robniezen.art https://www.facebook.com/robniezenart https://www.instagram.com/robniezen/ |
People |
Niezen, Rob |
Creator |
Niezen, Rob |
Search Terms |
Crosscut Exhibits |
Physical Description |
3 prints 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm each, < 1 cm extent |
Subjects |
Folklore -- Ontario |
Child Records |
A2024.010.001 A2024.010.002 A2024.010.003 |