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Robin Tarbet

London
Robin Tarbet (born 1981, Somerset UK) studied at the Royal College of Art and is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in London. He is the founder of self publishing initiatives Swap Art Editions and co director of Object | Multiple.
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Robin Tarbet (born 1981, Somerset UK) studied at the Royal College of Art and is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in London. He is the founder of self publishing initiatives Swap Art Editions and co director of Object | Multiple.

Robin is an artist (and collector of everyday stuff) who uses ad-hoc casting processes and printing techniques to make work that features transformations of recognisable things in unfamiliar situations. The act of walking, finding and discovering source materials is a big part of how he engages with the world around him. His practice often incorporates a performative ‘working in the field’ approach and he has a speculative lure for failed, obsolete or perishable subject matter. Robin’s recent activities  have included plaster casting dead jellyfish washed up on a welsh beach, to making moulds inside a nuclear power station. In 2024 he won the Eilean Shona Sculpture Residency and spent a month alone on a Scottish wilderness island. 

To help fund his studio Robin regularly works in academia, with 15+ years teaching experience as a Senior Lecturer, and as well as making his own work he regularly produces commissions and fabrication projects for international artists, designers, architects and commercial clients. 

 

It's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)

Data Blocks

Angle Poise Lamp

Castles In The Sky

COLUMN

One Slice Is Never Enough

HUMDRUM

Numatic Cubes

Euro-Pallet C

19 Concrete Punctuations

Orange Buckets

FLATLAND IRREGULAR OCTAGON

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