PERSONAL STATEMENT:

Playing on our desire for wonder and curiosity, whilst prompting us to question our everyday perceptive assumptions, my work inhabits an ambiguous place between reality and fantasy.

My own fascination with illusion and the unusual effects of scale and perspective leads me to dismantle, dissect, and distort everyday objects and appliances. I purposely re-generate the redundant, which enables me to create work that at a first glance is aimed to be familiar, but subtly transforms to be intriguing and not what it first appears to be.

 

PRESS RELEASE:

Robin Tarbet graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and is an artist based in East London. He was awarded the Stanley Picker Tutorship in Fine Art teaching at Kingston University in 2006/07, where he continues to work as a lecturer, whilst also being a familiar face as a Visiting Tutor at Norwich University College of Art. Tarbet’s work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film with three-dimensional sculptural assemblages. Whilst showing in many group exhibitions ranging from the Hayward Gallery to the London Underground network, his work has also featured in Blueprint Magazine, and in 2007 Tarbet had his first solo show at Outpost Gallery Norwich. He is currently making a new installation for EAST international which opens on 11th July 2009.

 

© 2009 ROBIN TARBET