Freddie Robins
Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 15 February 1965
Education and Qualifications
1987-19 89
Royal College of Art
MA Constructed Textiles (Knit)
1984-19 87
Middlesex University (Formerly Polytechnic)
BA(Hons) Constructed Textiles (Knit) with First Class Honours
Selected Commissions
2000 -01
Commissioned by Leicester Art Gallery to produce garments and gloves for "Adorn, Equip" a forthcoming exhibition about disability.
Private commission to produce footstool in collaboration with furniture maker Mary Little.
1999
Commissioned by inIVA (Institute of International Visual Art) to create a multimedia work for X-Space, their experimental web space. http://www.iniva.org/xspaceprojects/robins
Commissioned to produce concepts for "International Textiles".
1998-99
Public Art Commission by the London Borough of Hackney for Shoreditch Library. London.
1996
Commission by Highland Printmakers, Inverness to select craft people to take part in "IMPotent".
Selected Shows and Exhibitions
2003
"Britto International Artists' Workshop 2003", Tepantor Film City, Bangladesh. This was the culmination of a two week residency.
"Cosy", The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland.
"The Absent Wearer", University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester.
2002
"Cosy", firstsite at the Minories Art Gallery, Colchester (solo).
"Metamorphing", Wellcome Trust Gallery, The Science Museum, London.
"Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles", Crafts Council Gallery, London and touring.
"Shelf Life", Spike Island, Bristol and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.
"Free Radicals 2", Art and Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire.
"Thirteen Hands", West Highland Museum, Fort William, Scotland and touring.
Window Gallery, Canary Wharf, London (solo).
2001
"Shelf Life", Gasworks Gallery, London.
"Free Radicals", Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
"SOFA", New York, USA - through Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
"Ironic Iconics", Mid Pennine Gallery, Lancashire.
"Adorn, Equip", the City Gallery, Leicester and touring.
"Ikons of Identity", a Craftspace Touring Exhibition.
"But is it Craft?", Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University.
"A Public Auction of Private Artworks", Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire.
"Princess Su Su", Gracefield Arts Centre Touring Exhibition
2000
"Out of the Closet", Sotheby's, London curated by Janice Blackburn.
"Memories", Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
"Freddie Robins", firstsite at the Minories Art Gallery, Colchester (solo).
"Give and Take", The Economist Building, London.
"The New Knitting", Fashion Gallery, London College of Fashion and touring.
"You're Getting Warmer", Brewery Arts, Cirencester.
1999
"(Un)Limited", Crafts Council Gallery, London.
"Baa", art.tm, Inverness and touring.
New members focus , Contemporary Applied Arts, London (solo).
"Fibre Art", The Black Swan Guild, Frome.
"Winter", Hoax, London
"Shop 'til you drop", First Site at the Minories, Colchester.
"Knitwear: Design and Innovation", The Black Swan Guild, Frome.
"Contemporary Decorative Arts", a selling exhibition at Sotherby's, London.
"New Knits", The Pearoom, Lincolnshire.
"Home of Football", Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries.
1998
Foyer Showcase, Crafts Council, London (solo).
"Fibre Transformed", Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, Cheshire. This was the culmination of a week long residency.
"12th International Miniature Textile Biennial Exhibition", Szombathely Art Gallery, Hungary.
1997
"The Garden Party", Feering, Essex.
1996
"Art Textiles",Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery and touring.
"IMPotent", Highland Printmakers Gallery, Inverness and touring.
1995
"Wordworks", Highland Printmakers Gallery, Inverness.
1994
"Collecting The Contemporary",Essex University.
"Spectacle", Flibbertigibbet, London.
1993
"In the Swim", Design Labor, Bremerhaven, Germany.
1992
Group Exhibition, Conway Hall, London.
1991
"An Art Exhibition", Feering, Essex.
Awards and Scholarships
2002
Shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles.
Travel Award to Bangladesh, British Council.
2001
London Arts Award
1998
Crafts Council Setting Up Award to produce new knitted work.
1993
Pantone European Colour Award.
1991
Semi-finalist in Fondation Lea et Napoleon Bullukian European Young Textile Designers' Prize.
Joint winner (with Ingrid Tait of Tait and Style) of the International Textile Fair Industrial Design Award in the 3rd International Textile competition, Kyoto, Japan.
Public Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Castle Museum, Nottingham
Aberdeen Art Gallery,gift of the Contemporary Art Society.
London Borough of Hackney, London.
Szombathely Art Gallery, Hungary.
Selected Publications featuring work
"Cosy", published by firstsite, 2002.
"Knitwear in Fashion", by Sandy Black, published by Thames and Hudson, 2002.
"Crafts", September/October 1999.
"International Textiles", July 1999.
"The New Textiles, Trends and Traditions" by Chloë Colchester, published by Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Current and Previous Teaching Experience
Current
Tutor on MA Textiles, Royal College of Art, London.
Previous
Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kunsthøgskolen, Bergen, Norway.
BA Textile Art, Winchester School of Art.
BA Textiles, Goldsmiths College, Glasgow School of Art, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chelsea School of Art and Winchester School of Art.
Art and Design Foundation Courses at De Montfort, Brighton and Middlesex Universities.
"The Politics and Poetics of Cloth", project at Hereward College, Coventry.
Art and craft with special needs group(adults with learning difficulties), London.
Textiles adult education classes at Islington Institute and Ormond Road Craft Workshops, North London.
Textile workshop with children from the Stewart Hedlam School, East London.
Textile workshops with adults and children at Hoxton Hall, London.
Masterclass in own studio in Hackney, London.