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Robin Tarbet

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Robin Tarbet is an artist and lecturer based in London. He studied at the Royal College of Art and his work combines printmaking and sculpture with film and video. In 2017 he launched SWAP Editions.
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Robin Tarbet (born 1981, UK) studied at the Royal College of Art and is an artist and lecturer based in London. His work combines printmaking and casting with live film and three-dimensional sculptural assemblages. Tarbet's practice is concerned with the physical materiality of the everyday, from consumer products to industrial systems. Much of his research examines the material residue of technological progress and he creates physical responses to data in the form of futuristic monuments, fossil ruins and present day technological relics. From an often chance encounter prompts a method of selective pickings that triggers his fascination with perceived reality, science fiction, illusion and the unusual effects of scale and perspective combine. As an artist he substitutes his lack of technical understanding with the notion of play, imagination and the potential for what could be, rather than what is.

 

CV / BIOGRAPHY

Robin Tarbet (Born 1981 UK) is an Artist and Lecturer living and working in London. 
 

EDUCATION:

2004 - 2006: MA Fine Art Printmaking at The Royal College of Art London.
2001 - 2004: BA Hon’s Fine Art at Norwich School of Art and Design.
2000 - 2001: Art and Design Foundation National Diploma at The Wiltshire College.

AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS:

2006 - 2007: THE STANLEY PICKER TUTORSHIP IN FINE ART (Print) at Kingston University.

RESIDENCIES:

07 / 2015:  EASTSIDE INTERNATIONAL - ESXLA (LOS ANGELES) 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

03 / 2014:  ROBIN TARBET SELECTED WORKS AT THE BLUECOAT - Upper Vide Gallery (Liverpool)
10 / 2012:  MONITORED LANDSCAPE - Black Swan Arts Centre Frome (Somerset)
01 / 2010:  INDIRECT LAND - Trafo Gallery (Budapest)
10 / 2007:  MONITORED LANDSCAPE No.9 - Outpost Gallery (Norwich)

CURATED / COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:

10 / 2015:  POWER IN THE LAND X10 film screening - Modern Art (Oxford)
05 / 2012:  TOMORROW’S WORLD 2 - Project Number (London)
02 / 2012:  TOMORROW’S WORLD - Residency and exhibition Rogue Studios Project Space (Manchester)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

05 / 2016:  POWER IN THE LAND - Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Aberystwyth)
02 / 2016:  POWER IN THE LAND - Oriel Davies Gallery (Powys)
09 / 2015:  HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS – Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery (London)
08 / 2014:  CITIES OF ASH – G39 Gallery (Cardiff) 
03 / 2014:  SPECULATIVE FUTURES - A-Side B-Side Gallery (London)
11 / 2013:  ALTER // SHIFT // CONTROL – The Bermondsey Projects (London)
10 / 2013:  THE HANOVER PROJECT – University of Central Lancashire
05 / 2013:  THE TOMORROW PEOPLE – Elevator Gallery (London)
08 / 2012:  PING PONG TABLE COMMISION – Permanently installed in Soho Square (London)
06 / 2012:  RA SUMMER SHOW 2012 - Royal Academy of The Arts (London)
04 / 2012:  IMPRINT - Kingston University Platform Gallery (London)
01 / 2012:  BLACK SWAN OPEN - Awarded Special Commendation (Frome)
06 / 2011:  RA SUMMER SHOW 2011 - Royal Academy of The Arts (London)
05 / 2010:  CU - at Future Everything Festival (Manchester)
09 / 2009:  PAPER CITY : URBAN UTOPIAS - at the Royal Academy of Arts (London)
07 / 2009:  EAST INTERNATIONAL - Norwich University College of Art (Norwich)
05 / 2009:  FIRST SHOW - Achromat Gallery (Brighton)
06 / 2008:  CAMBERWELL GREEN - House Gallery / Camberwell Arts Festival (London)
05 / 2008:  SALIVATE - Anglia Square Shopping Centre (Norwich)
04 / 2007:  TRANSFORMER - Exhibition & Symposium Woburn Research Centre (london)
03 / 2007:  IS THE WORLD OURS? - Bargate Monument Gallery (Southampton)
03 / 2007:  [DOT] PARTY - The Hayward Gallery (London)
06 / 2006:  RA SUMMER SHOW 2006 - Royal Academy of The Arts (London)
05 / 2006:  GENERATION - Show One Royal College of Art (London)
04 / 2006:  PLATFORM FOR ART - Various Tube Locations (London)
02 / 2006:  LETS RIOT - Café Gallery Projects (London)
01 / 2006:  ART BELOW ZERO - The Westbourne Studios (London)
12 / 2005:  SEEING THE LIGHT - The Stephen Lawrence Gallery (London)
07 / 2005:  ENNON & CO - Group show in office space (London)
09 / 2004:  NORWICH FRINGE FESTIVAL - Balley Shoe Factory (Norwich)
08 / 2004:  EYE TEST - The Stephen Lawrence Gallery (London)

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS:

02 / 2016:  POWER IN THE LAND – The book to accompany the touring exhibition. ISBN: 978-1-78280-732-2 www.powerintheland.co.uk
04 / 2014:  AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPULSE: The Double Negative - by Stephen Clarke. http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk 
04 / 2014:  WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE - www.wsimagazine.com 
03 / 2014:  TUSK JOURNAL – Tuskjournal.com Exhibition review by Ashleigh Owen
10 / 2012:  TANGENT ZINE – Designed and Edited by Karen Ay
05 / 2012:  ARC 16 THE DEATH ISSUE - www.rcamagazine.co.uk
12 / 2010:  EAST GOES EAST CATALOGUE - ISBN: 1-8-7224-28-92-9 Co-ordinator - Eleanor Cherry
07 / 2009:  EAST 2009 - THE BOOK - ISBN: 1-872482-90-2 Editor - Lynda Morris
07 / 2009:  EAST INTERNATIONAL REVIEW www.frieze.com/shows/review/east_international by Chris Fite-Wassilak
09 / 2007:  PAPER CITY - Blueprint Magazine Editor Tim Abrahams
06 / 2006:  GENERATION RCA SHOW CATALOGUE - ISBN: 1-905000-25-1
10 / 2007:  MONITORED LANDSCAPE / OUTPOST REVIEW - a&n Magazine by Mark Wilsher

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