About the artist
Stephen Rosin (b.1975) is an award-winning contemporary multidisciplinary artist known for his use of ink, beeswax, gunpowder, bullet lead, digital photography, and various other unconventional materials.
A recipient of the esteemed Absa L’Atelier award in 2009, Rosin’s work is marked by a conceptual focus on socio-political themes and subtle satire, expressed through intricate and detailed imagery. His art is part of numerous private and corporate collections.
Rosin resides and creates near Plettenberg Bay in South Africa.
You can have the shirt off my back, Punk!
1,000 tea-stained, folded flat currency notes, wood, postage sealing wax, used .44 magnum cartridge. 2010-2011
The title of this artwork is taken from the saying indicative of generosity where you can have the last thing I have left. The piece is a tongue in cheek reference to the inflationary nature of money and is composed of 1,000 Zimbanwean dollar notes folded into little shirts. Some of these shirts are emblased with postage sealing wax embossed with a .44-magnum cartridge. A number of the notes are also stained green, representing the tea industry that helped to form the back-bone of the Zimbanwean economy.
