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Artist Statement
Robyn sees herself as an illustrator of ideas. Controlled and random chaos, humour and surprise are all merged in her works. Often appearing playful at first, Robyn's work endeavours to visually express her understanding about existence in the 21st century but also includes references to the past. She aims to examine society’s lusts and the desire for fortune and fame and, consequently, to highlight our insecurities.
Modern iconography is a key influence in Robyn's work, adding colour and design to stylised variations of common place images - signs, numbers, symbols, advertisements and people. Colour has always been an important feature of her work, tying together the various elements in the image.
Robyn is drawn to artists who push the envelope, unafraid of producing works and images that may be confronting, but always thought-provoking and endeavours to incorporate similar concepts in her own work.
She enjoys working with different elements and piecing them together to create some kind of logic and order. Robyn's continuing ethos is that there is a fundamental pleasure in connecting a few images together to make something that did not previously exist, believing that there is a landfill of ideas out there and a universe of nonsense that needs sorting, while, at all times, remaining allegorical.
From early on in her life, Robyn was drawn to collecting things and collage was a natural extension of this passion. As a consequence, Robyn's work concentrates on mixed media, incorporating collage, painting and drawing.
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