Robbie Fife, As Within, So Without, 2024
Drypoint etching with hand-colouring, 31 x 27cm, edition of 10
Robbie Fife’s paintings and prints are carefully constructed, featuring an intriguing array of subjects including toy-like towers that become rockets, mysterious figures, and sharks. A course in Indian miniature painting, and the architecture of the Spanish landscape have profoundly influenced Robbie’s practice resulting in gently surreal works that are rich in surface pattern and narrative.
This new etching is one of a pair created for our 2024 group exhibition and online collection titled ‘Almost Blue’. It features a diminutive silhouetted figure - reminiscent of a jelly baby- from whom a mysterious force seems to emanate. Taking the form of a dotted line (or a trail of minute creatures), this force moves from beneath the ground, into a standing human figure and up through a snail-like tree to meet a hand-painted blue butterfly. Robbie says; these new etchings are about the connectedness of all things, especially via the frequencies and energies we cannot observe with our five senses - but know are all around us.’
Fife graduated with an MFA in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. He has exhibited widely in the UK. Exhibitions include; Nightswimming, LLE at Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018, Sightseers, G39, Cardiff, 2018 and Outhouse (solo), May Project, Brook Green, London, 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA in November/December 2015 and Carraig-na-gcat, Ireland in September 2019. In 2021, Oliver Projects presented a solo exhibition of Robbie’s work, ‘Kist’, in London at 155A Gallery, and exhibited new work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Willoughby Gerrish has presented two solo exhibitions of paintings, in London and in most recently, in Yorkshire. Robbie now lives in Thirsk, Yorkshire.
Drypoint etching with hand-colouring, 31 x 27cm, edition of 10
Robbie Fife’s paintings and prints are carefully constructed, featuring an intriguing array of subjects including toy-like towers that become rockets, mysterious figures, and sharks. A course in Indian miniature painting, and the architecture of the Spanish landscape have profoundly influenced Robbie’s practice resulting in gently surreal works that are rich in surface pattern and narrative.
This new etching is one of a pair created for our 2024 group exhibition and online collection titled ‘Almost Blue’. It features a diminutive silhouetted figure - reminiscent of a jelly baby- from whom a mysterious force seems to emanate. Taking the form of a dotted line (or a trail of minute creatures), this force moves from beneath the ground, into a standing human figure and up through a snail-like tree to meet a hand-painted blue butterfly. Robbie says; these new etchings are about the connectedness of all things, especially via the frequencies and energies we cannot observe with our five senses - but know are all around us.’
Fife graduated with an MFA in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. He has exhibited widely in the UK. Exhibitions include; Nightswimming, LLE at Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018, Sightseers, G39, Cardiff, 2018 and Outhouse (solo), May Project, Brook Green, London, 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA in November/December 2015 and Carraig-na-gcat, Ireland in September 2019. In 2021, Oliver Projects presented a solo exhibition of Robbie’s work, ‘Kist’, in London at 155A Gallery, and exhibited new work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Willoughby Gerrish has presented two solo exhibitions of paintings, in London and in most recently, in Yorkshire. Robbie now lives in Thirsk, Yorkshire.
Drypoint etching with hand-colouring, 31 x 27cm, edition of 10
Robbie Fife’s paintings and prints are carefully constructed, featuring an intriguing array of subjects including toy-like towers that become rockets, mysterious figures, and sharks. A course in Indian miniature painting, and the architecture of the Spanish landscape have profoundly influenced Robbie’s practice resulting in gently surreal works that are rich in surface pattern and narrative.
This new etching is one of a pair created for our 2024 group exhibition and online collection titled ‘Almost Blue’. It features a diminutive silhouetted figure - reminiscent of a jelly baby- from whom a mysterious force seems to emanate. Taking the form of a dotted line (or a trail of minute creatures), this force moves from beneath the ground, into a standing human figure and up through a snail-like tree to meet a hand-painted blue butterfly. Robbie says; these new etchings are about the connectedness of all things, especially via the frequencies and energies we cannot observe with our five senses - but know are all around us.’
Fife graduated with an MFA in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. He has exhibited widely in the UK. Exhibitions include; Nightswimming, LLE at Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018, Sightseers, G39, Cardiff, 2018 and Outhouse (solo), May Project, Brook Green, London, 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA in November/December 2015 and Carraig-na-gcat, Ireland in September 2019. In 2021, Oliver Projects presented a solo exhibition of Robbie’s work, ‘Kist’, in London at 155A Gallery, and exhibited new work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Willoughby Gerrish has presented two solo exhibitions of paintings, in London and in most recently, in Yorkshire. Robbie now lives in Thirsk, Yorkshire.
