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Robin James Sullivan 

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Cornwall, UK.
b.1992
Education
BA Fine Art. (2014) Arts University Bournemouth

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UPCOMMING

2021 (JAN - JUNE) And Everything And Nothing Has Changed. White Gold International Ceramic Festival, St Austell, Cornwall. Supported by White Gold, FEAST and Creative Civic Change.  

2021 (MARCH) Archaeology of the St Austell China Clay Area, Documentary. (Director / Producer) 

2021 (JUNE) SX O753, Botanical Tile Workshops & Talks, Green Festival, Cornwall. Supported by Austell Project. 

2021 (JULY - ) And Everything And Nothing Has Changed. Permanent Public Sculpture, St Blazey, Cornwall  

2021 (TBC) The Hembury Bowl, Documentary. The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. (Artist/ Gabbroic Clay specialist) 

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SHOWS 

***POSTPONED*** 2020  Experimental Supper (Exs) X  Wild Wine Club @ various locations 

2019 Stone Circles and Farming? Thanks Europe @ Looe Vistors Centre 
2015 Dangerous Women @ Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth.

2014 Platform Award @ Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2014 Teeth Cut, But Have You Washed Your Hands? @ The Truman Brewery, London

2013 Occupy 01 @ Lokaal 01, Antwerp

2013 Experience Is, My Experience @ Drop Project, Bournemouth
2013 Arcade @ The Royal Arcade, Boscombe
2013 BH15 @ Boscombe

2013 The Multi-Exhibition Programme @ Drop Project, Bournemouth
2013 Factory @ The Factory, Boscombe
2012 The Sorting Room  @ The Gallery at AUB, Bournemouth

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WORKSHOPS 

2019 Neolithic British Pottery Firing Weekend, Exeter. 

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TALKS 

2020 BOTANY & BEYOND, White Gold Festival X Austell Project Digital Digging Festival, Online. 

https://www.austellproject.co.uk/connections-between-st-austells-biodiversity-and-the-historic-clay-industry/

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RESIDENCIES

2018 Lizard Peninsular, Cornwall. 

2013 Lokaal 01 Gallery, Antwerp


PRESS

2020 Assemblage Magazine Online 

https://www.assemblagemagazine.co.uk/robin-james-sullivan
2016 One Piece Of Advice

2015 Bournemouth Echo 
2014 BUMF

 

AWARDS & GRANTS 

2020 Arts Council England, Project Grant Award Recipient

2020 FEAST, Smaller Project Grant Recipient 

2020 Creative Civic Change (Local Trust, The National Lottery Community Fund, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and Esmee Fairbairn foundation), Grant Recipient

2019  White Gold International Ceramic Festival, Commission & Grant Recipient.

2014  South West Graduate Platform Award. (Shortlisted 10) 

 

OTHER

2020/21 Creative and Cultural Leadership Development Programme, Cultivator (1st Cohort). 

2013 Artist Ambassador, Arts Bournemouth, Dorset.

2013 Artist Ambassador, Boite-en-valise, Representing British Performing Artists, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice

2013- 2015 Founding Member, Fifth Degree Artists Collective , Bournemouth, Dorset

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