PROFILE

Robin J. Hawes is an artist and designer. Having worked successfully as a graphic designer and art director in London throughout the 1990s, Robin went on to establish a new career in academic research from 2002. He gained his MA in Contemporary Visual Arts at Falmouth University in 2005, and was awarded a PhD in Neuroaesthetics (Art & Visual Perception) at CSAD, Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2014. Robin has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) since 2015.

Robin now works from his studio near Falmouth in Cornwall, and his artworks are exhibited and sold across the UK and internationally. His on-going art practice is inspired by his investigations into how the human brain interprets ambiguous visual information, and aims to explore how certain structures and aesthetic forms can draw on the elements of imagination and anticipation that are integral to each viewer’s unique visual experience.