OLAF BISSCHOFF

Olaf's professional art career started as a studio apprentice to South African artist Norman Catherine in 1997. In the 10 years that followed his works have won various corporate art awards (Absa's L'Atelier, Sasol's New Signatures, PPC Young Concrete Sculptor awards) and form part of various private and state-owned collections (including the Taiwanese Taichung Cultural Government Commission). Working mainly in oils and often incorporating projection and as-found objects, Olaf's contemporary approach to a classic medium will take the form of a major solo exhibition at the Rooke Gallery in May 2008.