showcase
Showcase Window @ GlogauAIR (Berlin, Germany)
16 - 23 April, 2024
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"Toyah Robinson’s work aims to create a visual representation of the intersection of private and public places through painting, focusing on the inherent interconnectedness of strangers due to shared lived experience within these areas. Imagery for her work is sourced from a multitude of different things; graffiti, stickers, found objects or personal spaces such as bedrooms. All this imagery is selected, curated and presented in a way that refines and intensifies the every day and encourages the viewer to
take notice of things they may usually ignore.
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Painting in a meticulous way allows the work to get as close as possible to resembling this imagery without it necessarily being real – the references used for her paintings are made up of images that are combined, overlapped, manipulated and stretched. In some
instances, it furthers a sense of chaos or mess, but in others, it is used to
embody the intersections of private spaces and public places."
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open studios
Open Studios @ GlogauAIR (Berlin, Germany)
21 - 22 June, 2024
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"Toyah Robinson is a Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia) based artist who recently graduated with her Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland College of Art and Design. Her main medium is oil painting; interiors, bedrooms, mess, street art, stickers and found objects encompass most of the imagery that makes up her paintings. These curated images from the everyday are
manipulated to form new painting references which refine, intensify and reify our experiences of the everyday.
Robinson has a fascination with ideas of shared space, whether that is exposing deeply private space such as messy bedrooms in an impersonal space (a white cube gallery) or capturing imagery that is usually ignored and putting it somewhere it has to be noticed (stickers on the street painted meticulously and spotlighted against a wall). Her work aims to promote a sense of interconnectedness between viewers.
While in Berlin, Robinson has been heavily inspired by the vast variety of street art, strewn objects and imagery surrounding her. This new imagery is reflected in her paintings and can be seen not only in the mimicry of the stickers she has seen in Berlin, but also the interiors that she lived in during her time at GlogauAIR. Her collection of images to reference in her future practice has grown exponentially while in Berlin and will continue to assist the heedful nature of her work."
all images by Giulia Gr
