Rob is an artist and writer based in rural Lancashire.

His practice is focused on the blurrings of nature and culture in contemporary landscapes. He works primarily across installation, sound, moving image and text.

His work, usually based on slow periods of fieldwork and socially-engaged practice, has been shown/heard at Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Barbican, The British Museum, Tramway Glasgow, The Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, and many others. He has variously produced, edited and contributed to numerous publications, both artistic and academic. See portfolio.

Writing about the environment, art and sound, Rob’s work has been published in The Guardian, The Ecologist, National Geographic Online, Bang & Olufsen Play, United Nations: Our World 2.0, Caught by the River, The Quietus, Horizon: the EU Research and Innovation Magazine, Random Spectacular, IUCN News, Public Service Review: European Science and Technology, Ernest Journal and The List amongst others.

Rob has a PhD in Anthropocene art and geography from the University of Glasgow, and an MSc in environmental politics and practice from the University of Oxford. He has lectured on place, art and environmental communication at the University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford and Edinburgh College of Art.

Rob is an experienced writer and copy editor, and has worked in environmental conservation and policy engagement for a number of European Union and European Environment Agency projects over the last decade, writing articles, reports and policy briefs, and producing films and podcasts.

He has released a number of records and toured across the UK, Europe and the USA. He plays with the band Modern Studies and is a regular collaborator with the Folklore Tapes and Blackford Hill collectives.

Rob runs Pattern + Process Press, a small-press publisher of artists’ books, bespoke vinyl, and ‘zines.

You can contact Rob here.