Ricky Badness is a world-renowned free surfer and contemporary South African artist, creating multimedia work that documents the daily life of regular South Africans in a post-apartheid landscape, while challenging the stagnation of static storytelling with his repetitive, organic abstractions.
Blending his street style reportage with the dynamic shapes and flow of his painted strokes, this work challenges notions of individual and collective rehabilitation.
After a lifetime of drawing lines on waves, and tackling the legacy of addiction in his own life, this self-taught artist has turned his gaze outward, to that of the society around him, hoping to capture a moment in time that is part of a much larger pattern.
