Artists
Rob Kesseler
Born 1951, United Kingdom. Lives & Works in United Kingdom.
At Grizedale
Rob is an artist perhaps best known for his ceramics and large-scale public art. As part of a residency in 2000 he hosted ‘Gathered’, an outdoor formal dinner for twelve invited guests. Rob designed all aspects of the dinner, including the dinner service that bore images of magnified pollen.
Rob's early work explored the tensions between artifice and imitation and the paradoxes of representing nature through ironic and humorous sculptures covered in familiar pictographic icons.
He has worked extensively with botanical scientists at Kew and molecular biologists at the Gulbenkian Science Institute in Portugal, exploring the creative potential of microscopic plant material.
Product
Project Contributions
Selected Shows
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Canopy, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2001 Extending
Traditions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2001 Pollinate, 3_, The
Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria
Group Exhibitions
2007 Arcadia id
est., Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
1998 Art Futures, Royal
Festival Hall, London
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