RICHARD MARK RAWLINS

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46 (They wouldn’t listen to Diane), 27.05 mins Artists, Lorna Hamilton-Brown and Richard Mark Rawlins. Monday 18th March, 2024, The Stade, Hastings. Documentation: @aandimedia Red…

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Jumbie Family, 2023

Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 selection. In this series I draw on my Caribbean heritage (I am Trinidadian) and research to make totemic drawings…

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Jab Jumbie, 2023

Jab Jumbie, 2023 (graphite on paper) commissioned for the We Out Here exhibition showcasing the work of six Black artists of Caribbean heritage based in…

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Holding us Up, 2023

“Holding Space” curated by Hospital Rooms and presented at Hauser & Wirth, London. A number of artists were asked to create a bespoke pair of…

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Conversations Over Tea, Performance, 03/06/23

Conversations Over Tea,(performance), June 3, 2023. (55.33.07mins) Hastings Contemporary. Artists Richard Mark Rawlins, Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Claudine Eccleston, Pablo Mcfee and Paul Hope discuss the similarities…

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Yet Another Horizon, Portals of Possibilities, 2023

Springfield Hospital, Shaftsbury seclusion rooms In the Spring of 2023 I ran three workshops with participants from Springfield University Hospital and The Courtauld Gallery, using…

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A Complex Triangle Indeed, 2022

This work created for the World Reimagined Project’s Leicester Art trail, can be described as a mind map of different complex historical trajectories, with reflections…

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The Enigma of Arrival, 2021

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Like a Rope, 2019-20

Like A Rope (detail) 2019-20 Graphite, Indian ink and Acrylic on paper 38 panels, each approx 35.cm x 43.2cm Like a Rope (2019-20), a drawing made…

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Another Horizon, 2021

Completed in August 2021, Another Horizon at Titian Ward in Tooting, was a work commissioned by UK based Hospital Rooms, an Arts and Mental Health…

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Conversations Over Tea, 2020 – Ongoing

My ‘inward’ state of being dictates recognition of being Trinidadian, black within for the large part an indo-afro society, subjected to vagaries of multiculturalism without…

PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS, 2020

I am invisible understand, simply because people refuse to see me.- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man /// Public intervention 3. Trafalgar Square, London, 7/7/2020 • Public…

I AM SUGAR, 2018

I AM SUGAR (2018), a series of digital photographs responding to Stuart Hall’s Old and New Ethnicities essay of 1991. In this essay, Hall states…

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THE PAINTINGS

ISLAND STATE OF MINE, 2018

This is our collective Caribbean reality,- trying to keep our head above water and just managing to stay afloat. We are on the front lines…

EXHIBITION: OVERPR!NT AG!TATE ACT!VATE BELGIUM 2018

Curated by Jean Pierre Muller. Editions as seditions, prints as means of counter-information, from pamphlets to samizdats, from posters to clandestine press : the history…

A MICROAGGRESSIVE TEXT

In my first term of RCA I noted a series of interactions and questions from non POC. Context is everything though… I am black, I…

MOST THINGS HAPPEN WHEN I AM ASLEEP NZ

I had four works on show in this exhibition. #adresstothenation #tommorow #fullstop #fbombthejoke. The works part of Toofprints exhibition in New Zealand at Artspace NZ…

A Dress to the Nation, 2017

Click here for the Short Film A DRESS TO THE NATION, 2017. 2 -3’x5′ National Flags, lace, brocade, bone, brown cotton, nylon, 1- size nine pair…

RECONQUÊTE DE TINTIN, 2018

RECONQUÊTE DE TINTIN, 2018, Granderson Lab, Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. #newmedia #ttff/21

Resting on our Laurels, Version 1

Resting on our Laurels, Version 1, OUT OF PLACE, ACTION #5 12 Prince and Oxford, Style 0019, size 14, khaki school pants, spray paint, orange clothes…

Polite Line Do Not Cross, 2017

Our national collective memory is short. We never stop to take stock of where we are, or where we’re going. Unfortunately, I think we’re doomed…

The General Public 2015

On the eve of Trinidad and Tobago’s general election, artist Richard Mark Rawlins showed two works at Alice Yard, Port of Spain, The Kamlaflage Jacket…

TOOFPRINTS

toofprints is a side project exploring contemporary graphic design in a public space — Alice Yard. Curated by notsirk in conversation with Erik Brandt, founder…

FINDING BLACK, 2014 – 2015 INSTALL VIEWS

Click here to see details. http://www.richardmarkrawlins.com/046-finding-black/ Scroll to view more images Culture, according to Stuart Hall is a site of ‘negotiation’. In Finding Black I explore…

HERE IS NOT A HAPPY PLACE, 2016-2018

Subversions camouflaged by a normative form, a normative process of art production, painting, with normative materials, canvas and paint. When you actually get into it,…

The Finding Black Film Festival

#didyuhhearyuhself 2014

< scroll Inspired by a recent series of political soundbites, reportage and utterances of a number of Trinidad and Tobago’s “alleged” government representatives, #didyouhearyourself seeks to present,…

THE ARTIST STATEMENT, 2013

The democratic “STEUPS”…the often go to dismissive response from those that would find it easier to ignore the Caribbean contemporaneous in favour of the more…

Visual Cues, 2013

A series of works made during a rather pedestrian period in Port of Spain, that allowed me to notice/ think about more of my environment…

PRIMARY PROPERTY, 2012

Primary Property 2013. This series of works explored the artist’s continuing fascination with Woodbrook’s seemingly invisible red light side and all its different incarnations of…

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CHINESE WORKER 2010

Artist Statement

BUTTON PROJECT 2010

This was possibly the last Friday that my friend, a confessed and unabashed PNM party supporter, would have under the existing governing regime. And maybe…