CV
Cornwall - London, UK.
b.1992
PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
2021 And Everything And Nothing Has Changed. 5 month Public Arts & Heritage Programme, St Austell, Cornwall. Lead Artists and Creative Producer.
Supported by Arts Council England, Austell Projects, Coastal Communities Fund, FEAST, Creative Civic Change, West Craclaze Garden Village, Andrew McCall, Cultivator Cornwall & Cornwall Heritage Trust.
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
2022 (TBC) And Everything And Nothing Has Changed.
Public Ceramic Sculpture, St Blazey, Cornwall.
WORKSHOPS
2021 Kiln Building, building the first Petal Kiln in the UK designed by Andes Allik. through an ongoing partnership with Cultivator Cornwall and The Creative Academy St Austell
2021 HOW TO BUILD A STONE CIRCLE, Temporary Art Space @ The Sky Tip as part of And Everything And Nothing Has Changed.
2021 Prehistoric Pottery Workshop, Par Beach, as part of And Everything And Nothing Has Changed.
2019 Neolithic British Pottery Firing Weekend, Corpus Cross, Exeter.
DIGITAL COMMISSIONS
2022, Mater, Commissioned Photo Essay, https://mater.digital/chapterone/robin-james-sullivan/
2022 FAD Magazine
2019 A new Digital Gallery from Impermanence, created throughout the pandemic to celebrate the company’s tenth anniversary. Featuring 100 commissioned responses from 100 people, to articles, poems, reviews and paintings selected from modernist magazines published 100 years ago.
Read my text work here. https://www.decadeonline.co.uk/d9
TALKS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2022 Presentation and Q&A, Mater. In conversation with Christian Keeve, Heather Barnet & Maddie Rose Hills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AEDC1hZCz8
2022 Artist Talk on And Everything And Nothing Has Changed, Future Foundry, Ceramic Art Dover, Dover.
2021 Artist Talk on Art In The Public Realm. Royal College of Art, MA ceramics and Glass. London
2021 LANDSCAPE, THE FUTURE AND IMAGINATION. Podcast for Local Trust. https://localtrust.org.uk/news-and-stories/blog/landscape-the-future-and-imagination/
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, In conversation with Rhys Morgan, CAMP (Contemporary Art Membership Plymouth)
2021 ''Staying in and coming out: A reflection on the LGBTQ+ experience in creative Cornwall.''
Panelist for Real Ideals Organisation, Panel Discussion, Online
2020 BOTANY & BEYOND,White Gold Festival X Austell Project Digital Digging Festival, Online.
DOCUMENTARY
2021 And Everything And Nothing Has Changed, Landscape Archaeology of the St Austell China Clay Area. Commissioned by Robin Sullivan, funded by Arts Council England, Cornwall Heritage Trust, Creative Civic Change and Austell Project.
2020 The Hembury Bowl, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
(Artist/ Gabbroic Clay specialist)
RESIDENCIES
2022 Rame Projects, Cornwall.
2019 Lizard Peninsular, Cornwall..
PRESS & PRINT
2022 FAD Magazine, Material Conversations and Mater commission.
https://fadmagazine.com/2022/04/04/material-conversations-mater-x-robin-james-sullivan/
2021 Referenced in Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures, Book. Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers | Volume: 18
2021 Local Trust (Podcast)
2020 Assemblage Magazine Online https://www.assemblagemagazine.co.uk/robin-james-sullivan
2019 Referenced in Neolithic Studies Conference, British Museum, London.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 Artist Network Time, Space, Money Grant Recipient
2022 Capital Investment Grant, Cultivator Cornwall
2022 Skills Development Grant, Cultivator Cornwall
2021 Cornwall Heritage Trust Grant Recipient
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.
OTHER
2022 Stile Collective Cohort, http://www.stile-collective.co.uk
2020/21 Creative and Cultural Leadership Development Programme, Cultivator (1st Cohort).