DAMIEN ROBINSON - VISUAL ARTIST
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Exhibitions, 

Commissions,

and Residencies

This page is under development

Selected Exhibitions    

 
2026    Beyond Labels
             Ohrenbetäubende Stille 
2024    From St Mellitus to the                         Last Post 
2023    A Kind of Vanishing
             Sign/Sound/Southend
2022    In the Mirror 
2020    Inside Your Body
             Policy Making
2019    Colour 
2018    “Ghost in the Machine” 
              Agency of Visible Women
              Silk River  
2017    In Pursuit of Error   
             100% Southend
2016    Open Estate Festival 
             Feast of Fools
2015    Graphics Interchange Format 
             TAP Studio Show
 2014    Chimerascope
2013    Sensation Festival 
             TrailR 
             On the Line 
             Hadleigh in Place 
2011    Unearthed 
             Vibe3: 3 Towns Mix 
2010     Small World Fair: Favourite
              Sounds 
              Signpost 
              Now It Feels As It Should Be
              Accidental Festival 
2008    Sound: Space 
2007    Arboreality   
             Ambient Weather Sound                     Machine  (AWSoM)
             Abandoned Chairs 
             SpyKiting
2004     Re:Thinking Time 
2003     Songbird 
              Material Matters
1993    Bookworks: Collected Works               series 
Suffolk Archive
IMAI Düsseldorf (courtesy of Seo Hye Lee)
 Partnership with the Essex Record Office, supported by the National Archive

ECVAN/FPG New Histories programme 
FPG commission exhibited in S for Southend at FPG
Shape Open (online)    
 Online, for Vital Capacities
Agency of Visible Women, Beecroft Gallery
Beecroft Gallery
Tate Modern (Shape Arts)
Beecroft Gallery
Nash Conservatory (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) & Beecroft Gallery
Online practice research project 
Launch Exhibition, Twenty One (Focal Point Gallery)
Studio 3 Arts, culmination of Open Estate programme
The Old Waterworks
Focal Point Gallery
TAP Gallery
Solo exhibition of 2010 commission, Essex Record Office
Vibe Cube3: 4 Towns Mix - Rivermead Gallery, Anglia Ruskin 
Rochford Art Collector Series 
Chalkwell Hall, & Thames Festival (The Lost Property Office)
ACAVA commissioned exhibition at HOFS, Hadleigh
Acme Artists Archive project, Warton House, Stratford
National Sensory conference, Stansted 
Collaboration with Peter Cusack & Stuart Bowditch for DEC/Metal

Outdoor installation, at Metal’s ‘Village Green’  (with S. Bowditch) 
TAP Gallery (Vibe3; Southend Mix)
Battersea Arts Centre (Vibe3: 3 towns mix)
AWSoM: v0-0-2, 3, & 4, South Hill Park Arts Centre
Sonic/animated installation Chalkwell Hall, (for Metal/MediaShed) 
Site-specific sound installation (with Stuart Bowditch)
Shown with new mixes at 5 locations including Banff NMI Canada
Publication & exhibition, Norwich Arts Centre 
Exhibition & spykiting demonstrations, Ars Electronica, Austria
Peterborough Digital Arts 
PVA MediaLabs
Gallaudet University, Washington D.C.
National Art Library, & Chelsea Library 
Commissions
 
2026   Feltham Station Gallery 
            Creative Basildon
2025   Beam County installations 
2023    A Kind of Vanishing                        Greenvale School    
2022    Sign/Sound/Southend 
2016    Our Map: Isle of Dogs
2015    Walking on Water 
2013    Trail-R          
             HOFS-Centric   
             The Lost Property Office 
2012   Georingtones   
2011   Scanography series
2010    Chimerascope 
             Automatic Listening
2009    Vibe3 C 
             Vibe3   
             Carousel                            
2002    Aerial                                           
3-month external installation for Feltham Arts, working with Springwest Academy
Permanent window installations for Creative Basildon/Janet Duke Primary School
Creative commission for Bow Arts/Beam County School
ECVAN/FPG New Histories programme 
Permanent window installations for Bow Arts/Greenvale
FPG Sounds programme
Permanent installation at Harbinger School, Isle of Dogs, for Bow Arts
River Crouch Festival 2015, for RDC/Kinetika 
Lead artist commission for Rochford Art Collector Series 
6-month external day/night installation at HOFS, for ACAVA      
For Metal, as part of On the Line    
Digital commission for Essex County Council 
Participatory public art, Barking Hospital (NHS/Studio 3 Arts)
Journey to the Podium programme (Essex County Council)
Digital commission for Firstsite (with Stuart Bowditch)     
Sonic/tactile outdoor work for Cuckoo Farm (with Stuart Bowditch)
For ECC/Commissions East. Basildon, Harlow, Colchester & ESA
Soundscape for Steam Control, shown at BFI for X’08
X-space digital commission for inIVA

Residencies & awards

2020    Vital Capacities 
2018    AN Bursary 
2017    Silk River 
             Firstsite Collectors’ Group
             Award 
2014    Summer School Artist in                 Residence 
2010-11 One to Ones
2007   Banff New Media Institute
2004    Encrypt residency
2003    Encrypt residency
2003    ArtsAdmin Artists Bursary
2002    LabCulture residency     
1999    Focal Point bursary
 
Remote research residency
Award for collaborative project with Ruth Kathyrn Jones
Residency with Kinetika (commissioned by SBC: one of two lead artists for the area)
Awarded by Firstsite Gallery

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (for Space/Legacy List)

Emergency Exit Arts programme for Diversifying Outdoor Arts  
Senior Artist/ mentor for Interactive Screen 07
PVA MediaLab
PVA MediaLab
Recipient of development award 03/04
ArtSway, Hampshire
Focal Point Gallery
                  
                           
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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
    • Exhibitions, commisions, and residencies
    • Publications, Articles and Interviews
    • Lectures, Presentations & Advisory