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Winchester, Hampshire, United
Kingdom
Keywords archaeology, excavation,
object, body-ground, metaphor
Deborah Robinson
Keywords abstraction, pouring,
speed, intuition
Anne Robinson
London Metropolitan University,
Film Studies Dept, 166–220
Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB,
United Kingdom
Keywords practice-based research,
tacit knowledge, visual intelligence,
painting
and London, and exhibits locally and nationally both as a solo artist
and as a member of the landscape group Land2 and with the
Bermondsey Artists Group. She works in oil on canvas with subjects
inspired by landscape, archaeology and mythology. Her paintings
explore the territory between figuration and abstraction and examine
the relationship of the body to the ground in which it is located and
from which the painting develops. She writes on the work of the
philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and is a regular conference
speaker on the relationship between art and archaeology, and on
drawing.
› The excavated object, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 5.1, 73-82.
Deborah Robinson originally trained as an observational painter. She
then moved towards abstraction and produced large scale paintings
using techniques such as pouring, speed and intuition, derived from
abstract expressionism. In this work it became important to find a
abstract painterly language that expressed her subjective experience as
a woman and mother. During a year spent as artist in residence in
Angeles Deborah began to explore relationship between contemporary
feminist psychoanalytic/philosophic writing (particularly the writings
of Luce Irigaray) and painterly processes. This became the basis of her
Ph.D. research project 'Materiality of Body and Text: An Investigation
Through Painting and Darkroom Processes' (completed in 2003). After
this Deborah took a new direction in her work and began a series of
work in which she collaborated with scientists.
› The Materiality of Text and Body in Painting and Darkroom Processes: an
investigation through practice, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 2.1, 93-95.
Anne Robinson is a senior lecturer in film studies at London
Metropolitan University, and a practicing artist. She is currently
undertaking a Ph.D. at London Metropolitan University on the
relationship between time in paintings and moving image languages.
Exhibitions of video work include Maybe in the Sky (Liverpool World
Museum, 2008) and Slipframe (APT Gallery London, 2007).
› Underwriting: an experiment in charting studio practice, Journal of Visual
Art Practice, 8.1&2, 59-74.