Peter Randall-Page

Rock Music, Rock Art, article in Resurgence Magazine March/April 2009. This article was first published by Pangolin London to accompany the exhibition Rock Music, Rock Art. Three bronzes and a series of lino-cuts created by Peter Randall-Page in response to the expedition were shown at Pangolin London gallery www.pangolinlondon.com in 2008 as well as a sculpture made on location, Lolui Island.

‘THE RUWENZORI SCULPTURE Foundation recently organised an expedition to the remote island of Lolui in Lake Victoria, Uganda. Dangerous and inaccessible, beautiful and mysterious thanks to its neglected ancient history, Lolui made the ideal location for a multi-disciplinary, bicultural Arts project that needed to find new yet common ground for all the participants involved.

Granite boulder clusters, some the size of tower blocks, bulge above the surface of the island, forming a natural sculpture park of beautifully rounded, organically shaped rocks that instantly bring to mind Peter Randall-Page’s raw material. Spiralling, maze-like Neolithic ochre paintings found on the rocks reinforced the Foundation’s wish to bring Peter to confront and respond to this poetic ancestry, both natural and human. The Ugandan painter and sculptor, Peter Oloya – a former child soldier who uses sculpture as a form of therapy to help other victims of war – was chosen to partner him in a quest to create new monuments to the island and its forgotten cultural inheritance’. Read the full article HERE

Peter Randall-Page sculpture in situ Lolui Island