AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS:
2006 - 2007: Awarded the Stanley Picker Tutorship in Fine Art (Print) at Kingston University.
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)
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:
05 / 2012: TOMORROW’S WORLD 2 - Project Number (London)
02 / 2012: TOMORROW’S WORLD - Residency and exhibition Rogue Studios Project Space (Manchester)
02 / 2012: TOMORROW’S WORLD - Residency and exhibition Rogue Studios Project Space (Manchester)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
07 / 2014: CITIES OF ASH - G39 (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)
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:
08 / 2014: CCQ MAGAZINE - Cities Of Ash Review
03 / 2014: STEPHEN CLARKE An Archeological Impulse
03 / 2014: TUSK JOURNAL – 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
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
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Robin Tarbet (born 1981, UK) studied at the Royal College of Art and is an artist and lecturer based in London. He is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Foundation Studies at Kingston University, a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths, and a Mentor with the charity Arts Emergency.
Tarbet’s work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film with three-dimensional sculptural assemblages. Whilst showing in many group exhibitions ranging from the Hayward Gallery to the London Underground network, his ongoing series of live installations entitled 'Monitored Landscape Series' was exhibited as part of EAST International in 2009, and then toured in 2010 to be his first International Solo exhibition at Trafo Gallery in Budapest. Tomorrow’s World is an ongoing collaborative project, which started as a residency and exhibition at Manchester Rogue Studios in 2012 and toured to Project Number in London. Current exhibitions in 2014 include a selected works solo show at The Bluecoat Liverpool.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Robin Tarbet's practice is concerned with the physical materiality of everyday technology, and he approaches familiar consumer products from a wondrous and inquiring perspective. Much of his research resolves around the notion of examining the material residue of technological progress and he creates physical monuments to data in the form of futuristic monuments, fossil ruins and present day technological relics. Tarbet assumes the role of a curious folk scientific explorer, which leads him to dismantle, dissect, and distort everyday technologies and appliances. Aesthetically he examines the architectural and conceptual similarities of the built environment to the increasingly technological yet mysterious worlds within. His work questions the stuff that is concealed on the inside of a computer, or whether there is anything to find behind the façade of the television screen. As far as searching for answers or technical understanding his approach deliberately adopts the material function of failure and inefficiency. Tarbet's aim is not to reveal any secrets, but his curiosity is with uncovering an often eclectic and mysterious collection of real bits and pieces that with few visible moving parts or automated actions, work together to create the products desired function. It is with this real stuff that his own fascination with perceived reality, illusion and the unusual effects of scale and perspective combine. As an artist he substitutes his precise lack of technical understanding with the notion of play, imagination and the potential for what could be, rather than what is.www.rcamagazine.co.uk
