Robin Mason | Object from the Kunstkammer, The Viewpoint, 2024
Digital
Media Dimensions: 42 x 53 cm
Image Dimensions: 39 x 48 cm
Edition of 50
Framed/unframed
Born in 1958, Porthcawl, South Wales, Robin Mason is a Welsh contemporary artist who references the tradition of painting and narrative imagery. Mason’s paintings, prints and digital drawings draw on the aesthetic characteristics of Northern European art and popular culture. Blurring the lines between high and low art and autobiographic in nature, recurring archetypes in the form of flowers, trees, eyes, books, palettes and clothing punctuate the work. Making paintings as if in vitrines, Mason’s recent work references places and experiences as though transported from their origin into a virtual but believable encounter with moments from the past, in the present. Initially realised as iPad drawings, referencing his extensive archive of sketch books, the new works are an entanglement that quote from many years of image making. For Mason they act as souvenirs of experience, referencing journeys, landscapes, fragments of paintings, artefacts of the past, and elements of contemporary art and design that bejewel the collections of European museums and galleries. All this is mixed into a conglomerate of personal narratives, borrowed from early renaissance frescoes, folklore literature, comics, contemporary art, cartoons and mythologies Between 1977 and 1984 Mason studied painting at Cardiff College of Art, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, after which he established a studio in London. He has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in public and significant private and corporate collections including the Royal College of Art Collection, Government Art Collection, London Transport Collection.
Digital
Media Dimensions: 42 x 53 cm
Image Dimensions: 39 x 48 cm
Edition of 50
Framed/unframed
Born in 1958, Porthcawl, South Wales, Robin Mason is a Welsh contemporary artist who references the tradition of painting and narrative imagery. Mason’s paintings, prints and digital drawings draw on the aesthetic characteristics of Northern European art and popular culture. Blurring the lines between high and low art and autobiographic in nature, recurring archetypes in the form of flowers, trees, eyes, books, palettes and clothing punctuate the work. Making paintings as if in vitrines, Mason’s recent work references places and experiences as though transported from their origin into a virtual but believable encounter with moments from the past, in the present. Initially realised as iPad drawings, referencing his extensive archive of sketch books, the new works are an entanglement that quote from many years of image making. For Mason they act as souvenirs of experience, referencing journeys, landscapes, fragments of paintings, artefacts of the past, and elements of contemporary art and design that bejewel the collections of European museums and galleries. All this is mixed into a conglomerate of personal narratives, borrowed from early renaissance frescoes, folklore literature, comics, contemporary art, cartoons and mythologies Between 1977 and 1984 Mason studied painting at Cardiff College of Art, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, after which he established a studio in London. He has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in public and significant private and corporate collections including the Royal College of Art Collection, Government Art Collection, London Transport Collection.
Digital
Media Dimensions: 42 x 53 cm
Image Dimensions: 39 x 48 cm
Edition of 50
Framed/unframed
Born in 1958, Porthcawl, South Wales, Robin Mason is a Welsh contemporary artist who references the tradition of painting and narrative imagery. Mason’s paintings, prints and digital drawings draw on the aesthetic characteristics of Northern European art and popular culture. Blurring the lines between high and low art and autobiographic in nature, recurring archetypes in the form of flowers, trees, eyes, books, palettes and clothing punctuate the work. Making paintings as if in vitrines, Mason’s recent work references places and experiences as though transported from their origin into a virtual but believable encounter with moments from the past, in the present. Initially realised as iPad drawings, referencing his extensive archive of sketch books, the new works are an entanglement that quote from many years of image making. For Mason they act as souvenirs of experience, referencing journeys, landscapes, fragments of paintings, artefacts of the past, and elements of contemporary art and design that bejewel the collections of European museums and galleries. All this is mixed into a conglomerate of personal narratives, borrowed from early renaissance frescoes, folklore literature, comics, contemporary art, cartoons and mythologies Between 1977 and 1984 Mason studied painting at Cardiff College of Art, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, after which he established a studio in London. He has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in public and significant private and corporate collections including the Royal College of Art Collection, Government Art Collection, London Transport Collection.
