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Robyn Woolston
Liverpool
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Robyn Woolston is a visual artist who is passionate about people, relationships and the way the world works. She believes the stories we share collectively profoundly influence our sense of relationship to one another. Her focus often examines the parts of society that others shy away from. From difficult emotions to consumer waste, she makes visible that which is forgotten, left behind and discarded. By raising questions that concern social, economic and ecological perspectives she examines how connected we really are to the Earths finite resources. Her research areas address myth, mortality and consumption and are realised through installation, photography, moving image and print.
Working nationally and internationally her previous clients have included Guys Hospital (London), ITV, London Print Studio, Maerz Arts Association (Linz), National Geographic Traveller, Psychologies Magazine, Tenderpixel Gallery (London) and the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool). She is currently short-listed for the Liverpool Art Prize 2012
www.robynwoolston.com |
 "...if you are not a homeless exile..."
2012
Part of TRADING STATION
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Fifty photographs taken at head height, systematically
captured: Her face/the space/her face/the space...
By autobiographically ‘situating’ her response within the
context of the concentration camp Woolston is revealing
the etched ‘effect’ of death. She says of her work: ‘I am revealing the site of my physical sensation and
elevating the expression of my grief by sharing its context
publicly. As if to let go and give in as a mitzvah (def: a
good deed performed out of religious duty). As if to
cathartically raise the consciousness of a public exposition
of truth, of finality and impermanence, ultimately I am
bearing witness, as a human being, to a collective loss.’
...And then to loop and layer the images into a ‘landscape’
that transposes the space of the face and embeds it within
the architecture of the environment so it mirrors, ghosts
and repeats like death itself.
Robyn Woolston has worked with organisations, and
collectives, as diverse as the BBC, Birmingham City
Council, Her Majesties Prison Service, Intel, ITV, London
Print Studio, Mitsubishi and the Williamson Art Gallery.
Although working predominantly within Installation and
Lens-Based approaches, she takes an interdisciplinary
approach to her output by creating bespoke solutions to
creative commissions.
www.robynwoolston.com |
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“Et in Arcadia ego” (There is Death even in Utopia)
2010
Film: 1min 20secs |
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