Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Robyn Jacobs - ‘Expedition’ to the John Rank gallery for a 2 week exhibition. Robyn was born in New Zealand and moved to the UK in 1990, she lives and works in Hampshire and London. Completing her BA at UCA (Farnham) in 2013 was integral to establishing herself as an artist and gave her the platform to begin to build a body of work. Robyn experiments in a conceptual manner and has developed an art practice that seeks to learn through making. Robyn went on to further her education in 2022 by completing an MA. Her training has been central to developing an interest in site-responsive works and her focus on place recurs repeatedly in her practice. Part of Robyn’s motivation is to create meaning in the context of her adopted home whilst acknowledging the distance of time and location of the country she left behind.

Robyn has a multi-disciplined practice in mediums such as drawing, painting, film and 3D. Her work concerns itself with physical and psychological interpretation of place and engages with materiality and process within the context of site and/or activity. Accumulation and rhythm, layering and building are some of the techniques used in order for the work to take form. Robyn’s New Zealand background and local history inform her ideas and are embedded in the outcomes.

Robyn would like her work to generate curiosity and intrigue in the viewer while remaining rigorous to process and material. It is her aim to continue to explore methods in her practice that ask questions and experiment through gathering knowledge in the process of making. The investigative nature of the work explores the space between the familiar and the unfamiliar. This is an ongoing concern and challenge but one she continues to pursue and would like her art to communicate.