Michael Croeser

Michael Croeser is a South African Artist whose chosen medium is charcoal on paper. He uses found objects Juxtaposed with sourced imagery to create spontaneous compositions. The use of found objects to create compositions form the basis of his drawings. The initiation of his way of working resorts to a type of bricolage whereby mundane objects are placed together in order to create his own unique collages which he photographs using a 35mm camera.The photographs become informed references for his drawing. He then maps out large scale drawings based on the photographed compositions and creates large scale charcoal drawings with maximum attention to shading and detail.

Its easy to mistaken the precision of Croesers drawings for giant digitally printed photographs due to the detail of tone and shading and great attention to detail.

The spontaneity in his starting points relates to my work in the way found objects are sourced and assembled. 

More of his work can be seen here         michaelcroeser.wordpress.com