Robert McCubbin
Using collage, drawing, sculpture and photography, my work explores eclectic responses to the creative process using everyday materials and imagery. All set within the contemporary arena of mass consumerism and the impact of the waste materials this engenders. Ultimately, my work is an interaction and ‘communication’ with these materials, via a repurposing of them to form new abstract constructs, reflecting on their enduring and all-encompassing presence.
Lived Experience
I am 65 years old and come from a very rural background of hill farmer/shepherds in South-West Scotland, but subsequently worked in factory environments. In later years I applied for and was successful in taking further education in art as a ‘mature student’ ultimately gaining a BA (Hons) Fine Art. Further to this, I worked as a front line Support Worker in Health and Social Care for over twenty years, whilst maintaining and developing my professional art career. I have recently taken early retirement.
Biography:
I attended George Street School of Art (Dumfries) 1994-96 and subsequently continued at The Robert Gordon University, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, 1996-2000. In June 2000 I graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art and since then I have exhibited in both solo and group shows across the UK and beyond.
I am a member of Axis Web which hosts contemporary art and art related activities, based in Wakefield, England.
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Selected exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions
2001, Element, Newton Stewart Public Library
2001, Printed Matter, Stranraer Public Librar
2002, Untitled, Newton Stewart Public Library
2003, Module, Stranraer Museum
2004, Prototype, Howden Park Centre, Livingston
2004, New Works on Paper, Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet
2007, Transition, The Tolbooth Art Centre, Kirkcudbright
Group and joint exhibitions
1999, Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (S.C.R.A.N.)
2003, ‘Majestic’, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
2003, ‘Print Matters’ Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
2003,(Untitled) Joint Exhibition, Greystones Gallery, Glenridding
2004, Summer exhibition, High St. Gallery, Kirkcudbright
2006, In Search of An Image, Castle Douglas Art Gallery
2009, "The Way We Are", North by North Western Arts Festival, Wigan
2009, To Form An Image, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, Scotland
2017, Art work published in May edition of Average Art Zine
2021, LANGUAGE, International Group Exhibition, LOOSENART.com, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome-Italy -21st May -15th June
2023, Migrations and the Shifting Borders, International Group Exhibition, LOOSENART.com, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome-Italy -13th January-16th February
2024, POSTCARDS, International Group Exhibition, LOOSENART.com, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome-Italy-5th January -1st February
2024, The Wee Hub: Us-Ukraine & Scotland- Land, Art & Photography 11th-24th March, Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, Edinburgh
2024, 11th-October -25th January 2025,Ukraine/Scotland -Land (US) Art & Photography Exhibition, John Gray Centre, Haddington
2025, ECHOES OF YESTERDAY, Group Exhibition, LOOSENART.com, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, 4th-14th March
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