Richard Mark Rawlins
Richard Mark Rawlins is an artist from Trinidad and Tobago. He currently lives and works in Hastings, UK.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to the “pop-cultural” poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, identity and diaspora politics.
Artwork
FEATURED IN OUR HOSPITAL ROOMS
Another Horizon, 2022
Yet Another Horizon, Portals of Possibilities
2023.
Rawlins ran three workshops with participants from Springfield University Hospital and The Courtauld Gallery, using lino printing techniques to explore questions around identity, the passing of time and expressions of freedom. The loss or sense of time stalling was referenced as being one of the most challenging features of being in a seclusion room. Addressing this uprooting of space and time, Rawlins’ paintings metaphorically open up the small space visible from the seclusion rooms and offer hope and possibilities beyond the confinements of its walls. The colourful semi-transparent vinyl bird on the seculsion room skylight functions as a sundial, its projected shadow enabling a sense of passing time in an otherwise sterile space.
Workshop gallery
