Class of 2025 • Painting

Robert Lawton


Robert Lawton
Institution
MTU Crawford College of Art and Design (MTU CCAD)

Medium
Painting

Graduation Year
Class of 2025


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My body of work is driven by my enjoyment of anarchical self-expression. Détournement is a historic label, but an apt descriptor for the operation of my artworks, in its properties of negation, reorganisation and redirection. I combine a broad spectrum of media in my practice, including airbrushing, collage, video, sound and various forms of traditional mark-making. I am interested in the hybridisation of human and animal forms. I utilise “Creaturely transformation” (from Foster’s Positive Barbarism) to amplify elements of the human experience. My work becomes paradoxical in its fusion and breakdown of forms. I create rules for a part of composition to abide by, while another element disregards it altogether, denoting a fundamental fluctuation. I insert a piece of myself (sometimes literally) into a work, in a bid to extend and multiply myself. I view my practise as a biological ritual, acting on a substrate to create a product.
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