ROBIN TARBET  ARTIST & LECTURER : PROJECTS  +  SHOP +  CV & BIO + SWAP ART EDITIONS  + OBJECT | MULTIPLE

> BEACHED JELLYFISH CASTING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
From my childhood, I’ve visited the seaside resort of Fairbourne in Gwynedd - soon to become the first UK habitation to be decommissioned as a result of climate change. In recent years I’ve noticed an abundance of large Jellyfish washing up on the shoreline, a melancholic yet poetic coincidence in a place that will eventually return to the sea.

​​​An proposed body of work casting dead jellyfish washed up on the beaches in North Wales > These initial beach plaster casts will hopefully be the starting point for an extended period of research and development resulting in a series of relief sculptures and new body of work in 2023. 
> EARWORMS - FRAMED CONCRETE CAST EDITION
Dead headphones pressed into clay, moulded and cast into playful relief drawings in concrete… part fossil part fantasy… Initially made as a series of concrete relief tiles to be tessellated together on mass - I’m presenting a limited number of individual Earworm pieces ready to hang on the wall in custom cast Jesmonite frames. 

Available for £120 each + p & p
Dimensions 24 x 24 x 4cm, each work comes with a french cleat hanging bracket. 
> SPIDERS FROM MARS - RELIEF CASTS ​
A new series of relief sculptures made from a collection of spider plant off-shoots that I grew during lockdown.... Each work in this series is unique, cast in plaster by directly imprinting the young rooting houseplants into clay to make the mould, which is then cast in plaster, and framed in a bespoke Jesmonite clay cast frame. The relief forms show a window into an upside-down world where the root systems and fragile specimen like aesthetics appear almost as alien forms. For me, messing around with plants in my flat was an important lockdown wellbeing distraction and much needed escapism from the covid and political horrors that have unravelled this year. Spending some quiet time focussing on hands-on and low-budget making in an attempt to process everything seems important right now. 
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> SPIDERS FROM MARS - RELIEF CASTS ​
​Each circular work is 32cm in diameter x 4cm depth, come with a wall hanging bracket and a spider plant. Available £250 each + P&P
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> ROBOT BIN THINGS ​
​Ongoing series of concrete multiples cast from discarded tech product packaging
 ​> POWER IN THE LAND ​/ ORANGE BUCKETS / 19 CONCRETE PUNCTUATIONS
Research and curatorial project of 10 artists responding to the decommissioning of the last remaining nuclear power station in Wales. During 2014-16 I conducted site visits, risk assessments, mould making and met the Civil Nuclear Constabulary... concluding with a touring exhibition, several symposiums and a publication. Further information ​about the project http://powerintheland.co.uk/
 > NUMATIC CUBES​ ​
​Series of stackable Jesmonite sculptures constructed using repeat casts taken from moulds of Henry Hoover packaging 
​> PLASTIC WRAP PRINTS ​
Large scale series of hand printed monotypes from found pallet wrap
> ESXLA RESIDENCY IN LOS ANGELES
2015 Residency and research trip in Los Angeles 
> SURFACE IMPRESSIONS / DATA TRANSFER, RELEIF PRNTS AND CASTS 
Collection of relief prints and relief cast sculptures made directly from the transfer of surface detail and texture from a range of synthetic surfaces and collections. ​

> BRONZE RAMS

Bronze cast RAMs multiples   

> TV LAVA LAMP

Live installation using mini cctv cameras, a couple of TV monitors and a lava lamp.  

​> MONITORED LANDSCAPE SERIES  

Live installation of a model train looping through a sculptural landscape of circuit boards.

> MONITORED LANDSCAPE SERIES - PRINTS

Series of prints taken as still from the train camera from the Monitored Landscape installations. 

> CONCRETE LANDSCAPE SERIES

Concrete cast relief sculptures of obsolete circuit boards, presented in acrylic box frames - edition of 5, several works available. 

​> PACKAGING SCULPTURES / CONSUMER SHADOWS

Cast series of sculptures made by filling up found polystyrene packaging with concrete.   

> PCB PRINTS

Selection of relief prints and editions made by inking up faulty electronics and obsolete printed circuit boards and printing them some by hand and some using a press.

​​> FLATLAND SERIES 

Series of tessellating and repeating concrete cast wall hanging relief sculptures, framed in white. Several works available.   ​
> CITIES OF ASH - G39
A large scale installation using a tonne of circuitboards on loan from a recycling company.

> TOTEM

A single monolith tower sculpture cast in concrete. 

> SALIVATE 

Vhs video projection. Dolly mixtures filmed by a cctv camera pushed along on a modified model train set. - Salivate was curated by Carl Rowe and exhibited at Anglia Square Shopping Centre in Norwich in 2008 

ROBIN TARBET  ARTIST & LECTURER : PROJECTS  +  SHOP +  CV & BIO + SWAP ART EDITIONS  + OBJECT | MULTIPLE

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