Truth & Other Myths an exhibition of the truth, the half truth and the non-truth in the mind of
Steve B Robinson
EXHIBITIONS 1997 Market Bosworth Open : Hinckley Concordia Theatre, "Danceworks", solo
1998 Leic. Y Theatre, "A Mixed Bag", solo
1999 LUSAD "Do You Draw a Bit, Then?" duo: Leic. Y Theatre, "Pas de Duex", solo : Hinckley Library, "Dance Abstractions", solo: Gregsons Solicitors Nottingham, "Untitled Window 1", solo Hinckley Library, "Excerpts from the Dancing Adventures of Becky", solo Buckenham Gallery, Southwold, "Looking for Mandys Place" group
2000 Olebra University, Sweden, "Looking for Mandy's Place" group LUSAD, "Looking for Mandy's Place", group Hinckley LIbrary, "Recent Figures", solo
2001 Vacant Shop, HInckley, group Hinckley Golf Club, "Save the Gorilla Fund", group Town and Country Festival open Burbage Community Arts open Hinckley LIbrary, "Nudes Upstairs", group (organiser, model co-ordinator and participant) Ten-Two Gallery Hinckley, group
2002 Burbage Community Arts open Jubilee Arts Hinckley , open (chairman of organising group and participator) City Gallery Leic. "Barely Art" group (organiser and participant of show) Ten-Two Gallery Hinckley, group City Gallery Leic. "Poetic Fragmentation of Aesthetics" (arte del espanglish group) (organiser and participant)
2004 Ayuntamiento de Pegalajar open Ayantamiento de EL PADUL open Hinckley Concordia Theatre, New Hinckley Artists Society, group (chairman of NHAS and participant)
2006 Volunteer invigilator for DOT exhibition Volunteer artist for DOT, Cardboard Leicester (part of fringe for British Art 6 Nottingham).
2007 Voluntary Action Leicester. PARALELLOGRAM group show (DMU) TEN-2 GALLERY group show (all works on canvass 20 x 20cm)
2008 The Art Space, 16 Pocklington Walk, Leicester. THE POTENTIAL FOR LOVE Degree Show, DeMontfort University. ILLUSTRATIONS FOR UNWRITTEN TALES ONE NIGHT STAND, at House To Home Furniture store, Belgrave Gate, Leicester I-CANDY ART CENTRE, Hastings TRUTH AND OTHER MYTHS LEICESTER CITY GALLERY OPEN "The Brown Shawl"
TEN-2 GALLERY OPEN "We Shall Go To The Market Today", Hinckley
2009 AUCTION @ KLA, Knighton Lane Studios, Leicester The little BIG DRAW. Participatory arts event for National Drawing Day. Funded by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council , organised by ART-CELL and assisted on the day by Melissa Theobold BA(hons). Hinckley Market, Leicestershire. Independent Arts Centre with KLA Third annual TEA-PARTY at KLA studios
2010 VAUGHAN COLLEGE with KLA (paintings; ASCENSION and WITHIN/WITHOUT) RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH CENTRE with KLA ("Banquet..........Hurrah!") 6 Paintings accepted into show! CATMOSE GALLERY, Oakham. With KLA. LCB DEPOT, Leicester . With KLA
2011 BRIXTON URBAN ART FAIR
2012 Hinckley Library. HINCKLEY THEMED OPEN , ("Loved Ones") Exchange Bar , Leicester. (with KLA) Sumo Bar, Leicester. Charity outdoor art event exhibiting for one year. Curated by Bali Sangha-Jenkins Fabrika, Leicester (with KLA) New Walk Museum, Leicester (with KLA... 30th anniversary show) 10-2 Gallery, Hinckley Christmas Open Exhibition.
2013 Leicester Open 24; Britains Got Artists...........top 50 works on show at UK-ARTS gallery, Halifax WINDOWS-ON at Sumo Bar, Leicester (charity event for multiple sclerosis society) FIRST PRIZE
2014 Creation Fine Arts Gallery, solo show. Beverly, Yorkshire
Education DeMontfort University BA(hons) Fine Art North Warwickshire College Foundation Art and Design TEFL (part one) North Warwickshire College "A"level Art John Cleveland College Spanish OCN level 3 North Warwickshire College Wordprocessing RSA II North Warwickshire College Typewriting RSA I
Continued Professional Development. Find Your Talent, 2009 Find Your Talent, 2010 Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, via Leicester College, 2010
Professional Bodies Registration
Creative Leicestershire EMPAF
COMMISSIONS/WORKSHOPS various past years; Logo design for HARLEQUIN DANCE SCHOOL "A" board with logo for HARLEQUIN DANCE SCHOOL Logo used for video advertisement for HARLEQUIN DANCE SCHOOL HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE painting commission for Dianne Grose Collection "RYANS UNCLE AND AUNT" and "PORTRAIT OF RYAN" commissions for Mr.Phillip Hughes Irish collection Repair of painting for HINCKLEY HOSPITAL CHILDRENS LIFECAST (hands and face) WORKSHOP for BURBAGE COMMUNITY ARTS 2001 LIFE DRAWING/PAINTING WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGE RANGES for BARELY ARTS (including organising exhibition of participants works)
2008 MOTIVATIONAL WORKSHOP for long term unemployed with WING PRODUCTION HOUSE 2008 GEORGE ELLIOT PANTO SOCIETY christmas pantomime (chorus/backstage) 2008 GRAFFITI WORKSHOPS half term in Leicester with PEDESTRIAN 2008
2009 PARTNERING V.A.L. weekly art sessions with select students of ELLESMERE COLLEGE, Leicester, first term of 2009 MOSAIC production and workshop event for 1st BRITTANIA SCOUTS, Burbage, Hinckley. 2009. MURAL production and PAVEMENT ART event for BATTLING BROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hinckley. 2009 MURAL with LGBT Youth Group, Leicester, 2009 ACTING. Small part in short film "SILVER BULL", playing the oldish man in the wax poachers coat with long staff. Click to view on YOUTUBE ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJFQT2EIcM SUMMER ART CAMP, Rawlings Community College, Quorn, Leicestershire, July and August (2 weeks) 2009. FIND YOUR TALENT "where next?". Two day event for primary and secondary aged children at The Peepul Centre NATIONAL DRAWING DAY, "The (little) BIG DRAW" community participatory event, Hinckley Market, Leicestershire, October 10th, 2009 See NEWS page for links to video productions on YOUTUBE
2010 SATURDAY ARTS Barwell Community House January 2010 (ten weeks) with view to Youth Arts Award SpArc Day 2010 Rawlings Community College, January 28. Marks to music to sculpture workshops (x3) Painting and Monoprinting St.Leonards Swithland Primary School. Taster session for possible afterschool club. Key Stage 1 children Cartooning . Wymeswold Primary School. Taster session for possible afterschool club. World Community Arts Day, Rawlins Community College. Sculpture workshop. Green Day, Shellthorpe Primary School. Creatiing sculpture with recycled products Dance and Art, Ravenhurst Primary School, collaboration with Louise Katerega (Foot in Hand dance company). Clay Portraiture Workshop with adults in conjunction with Hinckley Council. 2 days. Life model, Dianne Cotteril. Lunch was provided by Council. Venue thanks to Creative Hinckley in the Goddard Building. National Drawing Day, "The Long BIG DRAW", community participatory event, Hinckley market, October 16th, thanks to Hinckley Council.
statement This body of work explores themes found lurking within the mind of the artist. Not knowing what the work is going to be about is rather liberating. Mistakes cannot exist if there was no master plan to begin with. The painted images of figures (human, animal, other worldly (as in angels ) ) start to appear from within the expressionist starting point of the under painting ,just waiting to be enhanced, brought into life and complemented by
the addition sometimes, but not all times, of collage.......cut out of magazines or printed copies of drawings from the artist's sketchbook, or printed on paper copies of photographs of life models, including himself. In fact, it is discovered that the themes making themselves known on the canvas are quite possibly some sort of self-portrait. Self-therapy, self-diagnosis, the inner war being waged in the head of the artist making itself known to the world, displaying the victory of mind over inner devils. Or they could just be self-portraits trying to appear more interesting. But if this is so then which portrait resembles what we know of the artist's appearance? Is it the jagged, headaching portrait? Is it the knight of old with a woman's head? Is it the harlequin in a crash helmet? And what of the harlequin draped over the chair with some monochrome figure in the background watching him? Is Harlequin the artist, or is the spying figure the artist.........there is a similarity of dress.........maybe its both? But we must not give too much away. We must leave some questions to be answered by the viewer. The viewer may want to ask themselves if there is an elephant in the room, and if so what is it? Indeed, the viewer may want to ask what is the actual truth in these paintings? The viewer should also wonder at what the myth is in these paintings? Harlequins......St.George.........flying fish.........ordinary people. It should be pointed out that there is at least one actual self-portrait in this body, although it may not sit right in the minds of the viewer . Please do not adjust your sets.
Isi Tart, 2014
#14; Angel 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage, spraypaint on canvas
#23 50x50cm oil, acrylic, collage, pencil on canvas
#11 50x50cm oil, graphite, on canvas
#18; Travellers in Couture 50x50cm oil, acrylic, collage on canvas
#19 50x50cm acrylic, oil on canvas
#13; angel 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage on canvas
#17; nightmare 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage, pencil on canvas
#24; wishpool 50x50cm acrylic, oil, pencil on canvas
Al-Hambra 61x76cm oil, collage on canvas
#21; headache 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage, on canvas
#20; fish out of water 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage on canvas
#7; corsage and straws 50x50cm oil on canvas
#9; Chloe's Tea Party 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage on canvas
#22; What Else? 50x50cm acrylic, oil on canvas
#16 50x50cm acrylic, oil, collage, pencil on canvas
other places you can find Steve B Robinson; Studio 32 Sparkenhoe Business Centre Southfield Road Hinckley Leicestershire www.steve-b-robinson.co.uk http://robinson-artforlife.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/Steve B Robinson Arts www.knightonlaneartists.com www.youtube.com/ARTCELLproductions www.youtube.com/Steve's'artbeat email; sbart56@gmail.com Published by ARTCELL 2014 all copyrights are the property of the artist in both image and print. This is the Unofficial Catalogue of the Show produced purely to illustrate the works of Steve B Robinson BA(hons) and is therefore not for sale or resale in any format.