Richard Mark Rawlins (b. 1967, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is an artist currently based in Hastings, UK. He graduated from the Royal College of Art’s Print programme in 2019. His work explores themes related to Caribbean life, post-colonial history, Black identity, and diaspora politics, with a focus on popular culture and its political implications across national boundaries.
In 2023, Rawlins was selected for both the inaugural RBSA Drawing Prize and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. He has completed commissions for several projects, including the World Reimagined Project (2022), and Hospital Rooms’ site-specific installations at the Titian PICU ward in Goodmayes Hospital (2021) and Springfield Hospital in Tooting (2022).
His work has been included in exhibitions such as We Out Here at Hastings Contemporary (2023), the Derwent Drawing Prize (2022), Breaking Bread at Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (2022), Drawn Out (2021), and the Drawing Biennial at Drawing Room, London (2021). Other exhibitions include The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2021), the Ingram Prize (2020), Wells Art Contemporary (2020), Photofringe (2020), and We Are More Than a Moment at Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA (2020). He has also exhibited in Get Up Stand Up Now at Somerset House, London (2019); Transoceanic Visual Exchange at Cache Space, Beijing, and the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (2019); OVERPR!NT, AG!TATE, ACT!VATE at Museum Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (2018); Most Things Happen When I Am Asleep at ARTSPACE NZ, Auckland (2018); Digital at the National Gallery of Jamaica (2015); and the Jamaica Biennial (2014).
Rawlins was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, USA, in 2012. His work is held in several collections, including the Wedge Curatorial Collection (Toronto), the AMBA Collection (London), the Soho House Art Collection (London and Brighton), the Guest House Hotels collection, and the Art Collection of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.