Secret Refuge – Phil Robbins

Date: July 2005
Exhibition/Show Type: Solo
Media: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking

Exhibition Description

Secret Refuge an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by Phil Robbins was at The Cut July/August 2005.

The Cut Archive material for this exhibition is currently incomplete.

Please see The Cut Archive Artist page for Phil Robbins for more about this artist.

The Press Release for Secret Refuge said:-

Phil Robbins’ paintings, drawings and prints of energetic forms playing and confined are impossible to ignore. It is as if the beginning of the universe or of a human relationship is unfolding before you. The abstract nature of the work allows you to find your own reading – your own interpretation and your own connection with it.

Some people feel the paintings resonate with energy and movement – for others they offer quiet and tranquillity. You might see the work as being composed of human forms or rocks in landscape. They are simultaneously animated and yet at peace. How you experience them also depends on what mood you bring with you – they shift as you develop contact – as you enjoy the visual involvement.

Phil Robbins writes: “I am fascinated by how and what we perceive of an ‘outside’ world from our own ‘inside’ and how we react and engage with it. Most interesting to me is how the way people feel – empowered, powerless, happy, energetic, excluded, imprisoned – determines what they experience. ”