Robin Tarbet
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.
