PROFILE

Robin J Hawes is a British artist and designer whose practice focuses on the relationship between art and visual perception, and whose work is heavily informed by his academic research into neuroaesthetics. Drawing on knowledge from psychology, neurology and philosophy, Robin has developed a creative practice via which he explores the phenomenology of visual perception and its capacity to shape ones inner experience, as well as our wider relationship to the object world.

Robin’s career began in graphic design in London in the 1990s working in the publishing industry as an Art Editor and Design Consultant. He moved to Cornwall in 2002 to study Photography and Contemporary Visual Arts at Falmouth University gaining his MA in 2005. Staying in the south west and working as a research academic, Robin went on to complete his PhD in Neuroaesthetics (Art & Visual Perception) at CSAD, Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2014, publishing numerous research papers examining the connection between art and the study of consciousness. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) since 2015.

Working across various media including photography, painting and sculpture, Robin’s artworks have been exhibited and sold across the UK and internationally. Based at his studio near Falmouth in Cornwall, his ongoing practice is focused on the creation of intriguing objects and aesthetic structures that purposefully draw on the overlooked aspects of imagination and anticipation that form essential elements of each viewer’s unique perceptual experience.