Myrtle Bank Studios
ROBERT IKIN
Art Studio of Robert Ikin
New Work 2024/2025
The photographs below are samples of larger works or work in progress.
ROBERT IKIN
My works here, are composed pieces, allowing a synthesis of dimension, flatness and form and colour, they are quite intense works using paints, oxides, ceramic mediums, wood, drawing materials or found objects, or what seems right for the overall feeling of the piece at the time, primarily and basically addressing in an abstract sense, human-ness & humanity, spirituality, frailty, joys and fears, and our places within this life continuum.
In my work I enjoy a play-off between permanent, timeless mediums and relatively ephemeral materials; I also at times take technique a step further and use digital derivations and manipulations from virtual imagery.
I usually compose my work either on a shelf along the studio wall, giving me a three-dimensional workspace or by working above the pieces with them laid out on the studio floor or work-bench - I can have a few pieces developing at once. It’s a process of associations - intellectual and aesthetic, configuring, re-configuring, adding new images, bits, objects, colours etc. - this composition continues as part of a process until finished.
Robert Ikin, May 2022
“I overwhelm myself with possibilities as an artist and therefore find myself realising concepts and pursuing ideas using a multitude of mediums and methods of working. Mainly I feel my work is of universal concerns, through glimpses of the things that dwell within us referring to our being, life and death, physical journeys and journeys of the spirit and of course everyday things”
Robert Ikin 2022
ABOUT ROBERT IKIN
Robert Ikin, born in Hobart in 1940, is a sculptor, ceramicist and mixed media artist working and living in North-Eastern Tasmania. Robert has exhibited widely throughout that State and is represented in many public collections in Tasmania; these include QVMAG, Devonport Regional Gallery, University of Tas Collection, Hobart and the Tasmanian Government's Art for Public Buildings Scheme.
