Artist Biography
Splitting his time between his adrenaline filled day job as a Racing Coach and his much more introverted and quiet home life, Robin’s work as a photographer and printmaker focuses primarily on emotion, memory, and introspection. Photography for Robin has always been a way to slow down and experience the world around him in a richer way. For the past decade it has served as an excuse to explore, be curious, and take notice of places and things that are otherwise easy to pass over.
Favoring expired Polaroid film and physical image manipulations, he embraces imperfection and the unpredictable as part of the process. Often shooting on expired film or with custom color filters and incorporating long exposures, manipulation, or film irregularities, his work increasingly leans toward the surreal and imperfect.
Robin was one of the Downtown Austin Alliance DASA resident artists in 2024 and his work has been featured in multiple local exhibitions, independent publications, and zines. As one of the founding members of Negative Space, he hopes to bring his enthusiasm for teaching and image making to connect with the local photography community
Artist Statement
I am a visual artist based in Austin, Texas. I work primarily in the mediums of photography, collage, and printmaking. I’m fascinated with the human experience, and focus on portraying fragments of places, emotions, and memories. I’m increasingly inspired by surrealist art and I seek to create work that gives the impression of a world suspended between reality and a dream.
A lot of my work combines Polaroid film with various manipulations. I use the cracked, layered, or decayed textures of the medium to highlight the uniqueness of individual experiences and to emphasize the frailty of memory.
My work explores the impermanence of human experience and portrays a material world that can seem ethereal and deteriorating; it reimagines the world as both intimately familiar and surreal. I hope to create a visual journey that is both haunting and meditative, inviting viewers to reflect on the ephemeral nature of memory and fleeting human experience.