Robert Lawton
Artist Bio
Robert Lawton is an Irish artist based in Cork City & Dublin. Robert graduated from CCAD with a BA honours in Fine Art in 2025.
Artist Statement
My body of work is driven by my enjoyment of anarchical self-expression. Détournement is a historic label, but an apt descriptor for the operation of my artworks, in its properties of negation, reorganisation and redirection. I combine a broad spectrum of media in my practice, including airbrushing, collage, video, sound and various forms of traditional mark-making.
I am interested in the hybridisation of human and animal forms. I utilise “Creaturely transformation” (from Foster’s Positive Barbarism) to amplify elements of the human experience.
My work becomes paradoxical in its fusion and breakdown of forms. I create rules for a part of composition to abide by, while another element disregards it altogether, denoting a fundamental fluctuation. I insert a piece of myself (sometimes literally) into a work, in a bid to extend and multiply myself. I view my practise as a biological ritual, acting on a substrate to create a product.
Instagram: @robwlawton
Membership: Backwater Artists Network 
