Robbie Fife, Night Swimming, 2022
Etching with chine collé and hand-colouring, edition of 20, 31 x 25cm,
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.
Recent imagery explores the idea of above and below, imagining worlds that exist under the surface. Sticks, roots, kists, the bellies of icebergs, fishing nets, and Greenland sharks all appear as phenomena that could have been left behind or buried. Often, otherworldly beings are the protagonists in Robbie’s imagery, further shaping his enigmatic narratives.
This new limited edition etching was printed in close collaboration with the artist by master printmaker Simon Marsh, in Cornwall. The use of the chine collé technique (glued tissue paper) allows the artist to add subtle areas of texture and colour to the surface of the print. Please note that, as is customary in the selling of limited editions, the price of this print will rise as the edition sells.
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 @ Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018; Sightseers, g39, Cardiff, 2018; 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, and exhibited monotypes at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Robbie has recently relocated from south east London to Yorkshire.
Etching with chine collé and hand-colouring, edition of 20, 31 x 25cm,
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.
Recent imagery explores the idea of above and below, imagining worlds that exist under the surface. Sticks, roots, kists, the bellies of icebergs, fishing nets, and Greenland sharks all appear as phenomena that could have been left behind or buried. Often, otherworldly beings are the protagonists in Robbie’s imagery, further shaping his enigmatic narratives.
This new limited edition etching was printed in close collaboration with the artist by master printmaker Simon Marsh, in Cornwall. The use of the chine collé technique (glued tissue paper) allows the artist to add subtle areas of texture and colour to the surface of the print. Please note that, as is customary in the selling of limited editions, the price of this print will rise as the edition sells.
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 @ Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018; Sightseers, g39, Cardiff, 2018; 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, and exhibited monotypes at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Robbie has recently relocated from south east London to Yorkshire.
Etching with chine collé and hand-colouring, edition of 20, 31 x 25cm,
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.
Recent imagery explores the idea of above and below, imagining worlds that exist under the surface. Sticks, roots, kists, the bellies of icebergs, fishing nets, and Greenland sharks all appear as phenomena that could have been left behind or buried. Often, otherworldly beings are the protagonists in Robbie’s imagery, further shaping his enigmatic narratives.
This new limited edition etching was printed in close collaboration with the artist by master printmaker Simon Marsh, in Cornwall. The use of the chine collé technique (glued tissue paper) allows the artist to add subtle areas of texture and colour to the surface of the print. Please note that, as is customary in the selling of limited editions, the price of this print will rise as the edition sells.
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 @ Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018; Sightseers, g39, Cardiff, 2018; 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, and exhibited monotypes at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Robbie has recently relocated from south east London to Yorkshire.
