Sam Foley - Rural Drift - A storm is coming

SAM FOLEY

RURAL DRIFTA storm is coming

“The urban landscape as a subject; the man-made and it’s encroachment into an environment. Line opposed to curve, the nature of chaos vs conformity, the myriad variations between absolute light and terminal dark are his constant fascinations.”

– Sam Foley

ABOUT Sam Foley is a contemporary New Zealand landscape painter. His often large, finely detailed paintings portray nature and urban landscapes, combining aspects of hyper-realism and photo-realism.

From Dunedin, New Zealand, Foley exhibits internationally, with works placed in a number of public and private collections. Over the last decade, he has been a regular visitor to Europe, basing himself between Dunedin and Berlin, exhibiting throughout Europe and Scandinavia. In 2013 he was the recipient of the Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award which included a 4-month residency at the cultural centre Altes Spitalin Solothurn Switzerland.

”Most recently, moving image and how the two mediums of painting and digital projection can be combined into a singular medium has been a focus. Creating ‘moving image paintings’ which shift and change, using light and texture in a complex way, a simulacrum of a simulacrum that still retains the integrity of time and place. It moves with the incident and creates a memory.” - Sam Foley