Robert Currie

Born, and currently residing in London, Robert Currie has spent the past two decades working with a variety of materials to produce large-scale and energetic sculptures, wall works that seem like three-dimensional photographs and installations that appear both static and fluid.

Reflecting, diffracting and absorbing light, his work achieves a sense of weightlessness that disorientates and remains elusive, making visible, the forces and energies that go otherwise unnoticed in the everyday.

Currie constructs each work by hand, precisely placing, wrapping, threading and twisting his chosen materials. Working with audio and videotape, nylon monofilament and plexiglass, an understanding that the appearance of his work is entirely dependent upon the variables of time and space is central to his practice. A skillful use of the external environment means his works constantly evolve, their technical specifications altering but the purity of their medium remaining unchanged.

Robert Currie achieved a first class BA (Hos) in Design & Art Direction at Manchester Metropolitan University before completing his MA at the Royal College of Art. In the same year Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeremy Dellar, Gavin Turk and Sarah Kent selected him for Bloomberg New Contemporaries and he was commissioned by Sotheby's for a 3 month installation in their London atrium.

His works are located in many prestigious, private and public global collections