Bath Society of Artists – Robin Sewell

This talk is organised by an external group, please see the BSA website for further details. All welcome, entry £5 for non-members (cash only).

Robin Sewell was born and educated in Leeds, Yorkshire, then Cardiff and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He was a Senior Lecturer in BA Fine Art between 1980 and 2012 and lived and worked in London and Umbria, Italy and now lives and works in Wiltshire.

Throughout his career his work has included installation works, cast paper and cymatic guided paintings that employ an array of manipulating instruments giving rise to an interplay with the primary behaviour of matter. With each painting he devises operational modes that distance him from controlling its direction. The indeterminacy of each journey leads to mutations and serendipitous chance occurrences that mimic geological, metrological, and genetic forms. Underpinning his practice is a drive to negotiate primary evolutionary and creative processes.

Robin’s talk is fundamentally about the ways he makes paintings and drawings using invented techniques and simple machines, without using a brush. The talk covers several decades of studio practice.