Carl Robinson
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Job title: Programme Leader - BA (Hons) Fine Art; Acting Programme Leader MA film and Photography
Email: c.robinson@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: carlrobinson.org
Phone No: 01332 593171
Room: Markeaton Street 203
Recent publications
2012
MA Exposition - Bonington Building NTU
2012
Staff Exhibition - Markeaton, University of Derby
2013
Lumen Art Prize - International Touring Exhibition
'Gallery 27' Cork St London
'Robert's Books'
Latvia
'FQ Projects'
Shanghai
'Plum Blossoms Art Gallery' Hong Kong
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Art and Design
Subject Area: Fine Art
Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art
I first began working in education in the 1980s and have been involved in numerous educational roles within institutions since that time, including Artists workshops at the Liverpool Tate and Artists Residencies. I have set up and led various Art Foundation programmes, been Head of Subject for Design and Media, and a Head of School of Art and Design, and Creative Arts. I am currently leading the BA (Hons) Fine Art programme working closely with 1st year students on Fine Art - as both their Year Tutor and Personal Tutor - and as a supervisor for Photography students on the MA.
Teaching responsibilities
- Leadership of the BA Fine Art
- First Year Tutor for Fine Art
- Digital Photographic manipulation workshops
Research interests
My practice centres on the creation of digitally manipulated photographic images that aims to bring together a conjunction of three themes: artistic invention, thwarted narrative and the consequences of looking. I am particularly interested in creating works that concentrate on the problem of pictorial narrative, especially where this intersects with 'realism' and how seemingly emphatic images that deny ultimate decoding raise questions around the differences between 'seeing' and 'reading'.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Hons) Fine Art, Trent Polytechnic
- PGCE, Bolton Institute
Postgraduate qualifications
- MA (RPT) FIne Art, Nottingham Trent University

