Robert Mead is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University, Chelsea College of Art & Design and Slade School of Fine Art. He has been exhibiting since 2019 and has been the recipient of multiple scholarships and prizes including Honorary Research Associate, UCL in 2009 and the Max Werner Drawing Prize in 2021.
Mead's imagery is bound with his own materials and pigments, manganese black harvested from old batteries, the clay of eroding Norfolk cliffs, or brickwork from houses which have toppled into the sea. Symptoms and traces of human impacts, but also the overwhelming power of nature are embedded in the paintings layers, echoing our own growing presence in the current and future strata of the Earth, and the strands of human histories that are entwined with this.
Mead's imagery is bound with his own materials and pigments, manganese black harvested from old batteries, the clay of eroding Norfolk cliffs, or brickwork from houses which have toppled into the sea. Symptoms and traces of human impacts, but also the overwhelming power of nature are embedded in the paintings layers, echoing our own growing presence in the current and future strata of the Earth, and the strands of human histories that are entwined with this.
