Paul O Robinson

Paul O Robinson grew up on the Atlantic coast of North Florida amongst a family of taxidermists and concert and circus musicians. He began his university education in music theory and composition, and from there he changed course to serve a traditional five-year apprenticeship with a master pattern-maker; afterwards he opened his design studio within which he began to develop work that would direct him again to university, this time for art and architecture. The intersection of artistic process and architectural theory suggested alternative ways to practice and to teach. Robinson has been actively teaching and maintaining his studio since 2000. In 2009 he received a Fulbright fellowship to Slovenia where he focused on developing entirely new work that excavated existing spatial environments using X-Ray technology. Often with the X-Ray as a substrate, he developed processes to transform both two and three-dimensional artifacts into individual artworks—radiographs, paintings and sculptures—and recomposed spatial installations. Each artwork emerges as a material correspondence with the spaces and objects Robinson explores; in this respect all works have their own individual—non-homogeneous—narrative and material language.

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