Rob Howe at Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide

Rob Howe’s solo show Of Course I Still Love You is now showing at Hugo Michell Gallery in Adelaide, until the 21st of December.

Earlier this year footage was released of the rocket used to put spacecraft into orbit off Cape Canaveral in Florida. On its return to Earth, the rocket swung itself into a vertical position and lowered itself gently onto a landing platform on an autonomous spaceport drone ship commissioned by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. The name given to the vessel on which the rocket so softly landed? Of Course I Still Love You.

For the rocket returning from its mission in space, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ represents home. And for this body of work – taking as its subjects local children, houses and landscape – home is the common thread.

‘Of Course I Still Love You’ represents what I see in my vicinity, what I like to pay attention to. These are ongoing themes in my paintings of recent years – my continuing infatuation with the colours and possibilities of local suburbia.

-Rob Howe