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Red Tower; The Treatment of Individual Parts

On Friday June 9th 1978 at 8pm Nigel Rolfe will present a Sculptural Performance in Chapter Gallery Market Road Canton Cardiff. He would be glad to see you there.
(Invitation; reprinted in: Rolfe, Nigel. Archive. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1994, without page number)

On Saturday June 10th 1978 at 8pm Nigel Rolfe will present a Sculptural Performance in Chapter Gallery Market Road Canton Cardiff. He would be glad to see you there.
(reprinted in: Rolfe, Nigel. Archive. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1994, without page number)

Nigel gives art knockdown look
by Mike Slater
CRUNCH! THAT'S Nigel Rolfe proving that if you want to get around in the art world you have to use your head.
For Nigel is into sculpture in motion - head first into it you might say - and at Chapter Arts Centre last night he gave Cardiff a preview of'Red Tower', the work he is shortly taking on a British tour.
First he painstakingly builds a tower of red tiles.
Then, donning a crash helmet, he dives into it knocking it flat.
A similar performance at the National Eisteddfod at Wrexham last year aroused a storm of controersy but Nigel insists that the 300-plus audience there understood and applauded.
'I don't think I work in a sensational way', he said last night. 'This is the sort of thing I do privately, quietly in my own home and have been doing for some time.'
The 28-year-old lecturer in sculpture at the National College of Art, Dublin, is resigned to criticism of his work.
'I accept it', he says. 'Like a lesson in life.'
He is going to America soon to exhibit there but Red Tower is something New Yorkers will miss out on.
'There are problems in taking the thing with me,' he said, 'and I couldn't just pick up any old tiles across there and use them.'
(Western Mail, Saturday 10 June 1978, page 1)

© Images: Nigel Rolfe.