Peter Robinson

Historically known for his critical exploration of identity politics, Robinson’s early artworks examined his Maori ancestry and biculturalism. More recently, Robinson has shifted from this rhetoric and weight of interpretation to focus more exclusively on exploring and celebrating the materiality of the mediums with which he works – such as felt, polystyrene and steel. Interested in the play between order and disorder, density and lightness, dispersion and compression, Robinson creates bold, monumental and irrepressible forms where the idea of sculpture is often momentarily balanced between building up and breaking down. Indeed, Robinson’s affection for materiality is regularly experienced as profusion and excess.

Submitted by Sutton Gallery