DAMIEN ROBINSON - VISUAL ARTIST
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Community, Learning, and Education projects

I work on a wide range of learning-orientated projects, in both gallery and classroom settings, developing workshops for participants of all ages. These explore a range of techniques and processes, often mixing digital with analogue, and allowing access to cross-curricular outcomes.
"This is the best art class ever!"
Year 4 pupil

Damien sitting on gallery floor talking to pupils , who are sitting around her in a circle.
Box portfolio and handmade sketchbook decorated with student's colourful tape art.
Close up of pupil painting black image on acetate ready for cyanotype work.
Collaged puppet animal 'avatars' held up by pupils exploring the Olympic Park.
I work with primary, secondary, and SEN/D schools - as an individual, leading school partnerships, or as part of a wider team. Projects have included a CPD element to build and develop staff skills and experience, and professional development has also been commissioned as stand-alone training. School projects have also been developed into commissioned artwork, both temporary and permanent installations. Additionally, I often work with young people and adults outside formal education structures.

I have extensive experience working with arts organisations to design and deliver projects. These include work to enhance their education and community offer, for both age-specific and family audiences, and also commissioned processes for large-scale events, such as creative evaluation.

"Mega thanks for another superbly delivered workshop...Some more positive feedback for you, one of the students at the Lincoln workshop has gone on to pick Media as one of his GSCE options this year and he said it was because of what you did."   Isabel Reid, NDCS
I'm happy to discuss project ideas and concepts for workshops and engagement activities.
  • I hold a current, enhanced level DBS check
  • am qualified to post-graduate level as an artist working with schools (Institute of Education, UCL)
  • have £10m Public and Products Liability (PPL) insurance and £5m Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance
  • am a trained Arts Award Advisor (all levels, Discover to Gold)
For more details, please contact me
"I didn't know we were actually learning because it was so much fun."
Project examples                                 This section is being developed
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Creative Evaluation
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Creative project installations
Children playing with paper tower blocks and lights
Arts-led heritage
Colourful dots of light in random pattern
Daylight Light Painting
Delicate orange image of woman's face overprinted with blue flowers
Risograph and printmaking
Hand-drawn inconic images exploring art concepts - realism/shading
Arts Award projects
Close up of hands making card buildings
Family and inter-generational work
Cyanotype showing layered abstract shapes and lines
Mixing traditional and digital
Organisations I have worked with include:

  • Horniman Museum
  • Focal Point Gallery
  • Bow Arts
  • Shape Arts
  • Royal Opera House Bridge
  • Space Studios
  • Random Dance
  • Essex County Council
  • Rochford District Council


  • British Library
  • The Old Waterworks
  • Grrlzine/TOMA
  • Metal Culture
  • Studio 3 Arts
  • National Deaf Children's Society
  • Creative Partnerships
  • Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts
  • Science Museum
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  • Home
  • Projects
    • From St Mellitus to the Last Post
    • A Kind of Vanishing - New Histories
    • Recent projects
    • Public Art
    • Earlier projects
  • Collaborations
    • The Agency of Visible Women >
      • "A Snapshot of Southend as a Cultural Environment for Womxn"
      • Agency of Visible Womxn - conduct
    • Earlier collaborations >
      • Robinson & Reid
      • Georingtones: 'Sparks Will Fly...'
      • Signpost
      • Vibe Cube Southend
      • Automatic Listening
      • Small World Fair
      • Outside 09
      • Vibe Cube
      • AWSoM
  • Creative Learning
  • About/Contact
    • Publications, Articles and Interviews
    • Lectures and Presentations