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Artist Statement:
In the wake of Duchamp et al,
the 1960s' pop artists blew
away much of the established
rule book about what
constituted 'art' – I took
heart. I am not comfortable
with artificial categories
such as fine art, graphic art,
or craft. In the plane of
two-dimensional imagery, I
guess I'm now somewhere
between photography, graphics
and the digital arts. Pixel
technology suits my thinking
and my range of skills; I have
been described as a polymath.
Technology and art are
inseparable, each sparking off
ideas in the other. Artists
have always been quick to
exploit new technologies,
materials and tools (Dürer and
the printing press; Vermeer
and the camera obscura; Degas
and high speed photography;
Paolozzi and screen-printing;
Donaldson and acrylic paint;
Hockney and Polaroids;
Hamilton and the electronic
Quantel Paintbox).
For me, new art has to be
original. I believe the
product says something about
the artist, if only that
he/she was kowtowing to the
establishment or prostituting
their talents or just needing
to earn a crust. How the
viewer interprets the artefact
is another matter; the artist
has limited control over that.
Essentially art comprises the
acts of conceiving and
executing the artefact ...
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
A selection of Colin's shoe
prints may be seen and bought
at
Icetwice Gallery, 25 High
Street South, Olney, MK46 4AA
http://icetwice.com/
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Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Colin Robinson:
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'people and faces' UCL 1964
Oxfordshire Artweeks 1997-2002
'people and places' Banbury Museum 2000
'Transformations' Chipping Norton 2000
ARTitUK Pangbourne College, Berkshire 2001
Friends of Pitt Rivers Museum 2001
'Quintessential' The Theatre Chipping Norton 2002
'Hotwired' The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury 2002
The Lennox Gallery, London SW6 2002
Gallery 47 Great Russell Street, London 2003
Atrium Gallery Bournemouth University 2003
Blender Gallery, Bodicote 2004
St Edward's, Oxford 2005
Michael Heseltine Gallery, Chenderit 2005
Oxford County Hall 2005
Radley College, Abingdon 2006
Saïd Business School Oxford 2008
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