''Harbour'', Sam Foley (The Artist's Room)
Sam Foley's 20th solo show is one of the year's must-see exhibitions.
The flavour of home, Otago Daily Times /
Sometimes you feel you could step into a large landscape painting, such as Sam Foley's. Charmian Smith talks to the Dunedin artist about his 20th solo exhibition.
Der neue Gastkünstler im Alten Spital ist ein Meister des Lichts /
Solothurner Zeitung, Switzerland, Aktualisiert am 10.04.14, um 19:26 von Andreas Kaufmann
Nordic Projections /
By Sam Foley, Art News NZ, Spring 2012, p108-111
(Article fragment) Sitting on the plane, waiting to leave Dunedin airport on the first leg of the 40 or so hours to Oslo, Norway, a couple of things occurred to me. Firstly, the fact that I usually forget to take one or two things with me, usually a toothbrush or some other toiletry item. Maybe a charger of some description. Even a passport once. If I can get away with only a toothbrush then I’m doing well, as the logistics of the trip so far had been quite overwhelming.
Ten months earlier I’d picked up a commission from the Lom Koummune (a regional council about 350 km northwest of Oslo) to produce 10 large (2.5 x 1.5m) multimedia landscapes of their breathtaking countryside. It was never going to be an easy project...
Award founder buys Dunedin artist's work, Otago Daily Times /
Winning the People's Choice Award at the prestigious Wallace Art Awards in Auckland was humbling and inspiring.
But Dunedin artist Sam Foley says having his winning artwork bought by the art competition's founder was another shade of excitement altogether.
Read MoreExperiments with colour and light /
By T.J.McNamara, The NZ Herald, 20th July 2008, pB10
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The work of Sam Foley at Whitespace focuses on one kind of realistic image and the projection is something added experimentally.
His technically brilliant works show paths through the beech forests of the South Island. The paths have a slight sense of symbolism as he paints the dappled light through the trees and the patterns of the trunks reaching upward.
The paintings are of an impressive size and the handling of paint is a virtuoso performance. In a work in the window, the pattern of leaves give a real sense of delight in the act of painting.