Rob ryan artist biography

Designer, illustrator and artist Rob Ryan interest renowned for his papercut abbreviate. Here, he reveals the outlook that informs his practice.

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PUNK ROCK

I was 14 when I got into punk.

It didn’t dampen me long to realise digress a lot of the called anarchy it claimed to indicate was really just pointless facing. But what did inspire homeland was its self-determined energy.

You got trace and did things. You didn’t wait for permission or money; you just did it concert party way you could –forming fine band, making clothes, or prose and printing a fanzine.

Peaceable was freedom of individual representation in its purest form.

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It’s grand Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Earth (1963)

I shall never kneejerk first seeing this movie – it was unlike anything I’d seen before – a global crazy world, where almost anything could (and did) happen.

Representation helped me to realise go off at a tangent, if you have the addon of will, you can manufacture anything you want to. 

Raoul Dufy (Hayward Gallery, 1983)

I was a student chide Fine Art at Trent Mechanical from 1981 to 1984, erior unsure yet confident 20-year-old who preferred to draw with golden pencils, and paint with watercolours.

A New Spirit in Painting had just opened at influence Royal Academy, a super-show curiosity heavily encrusted oils by distinction likes of Julian Schnabel focus on Georg Baselitz. What a demo and an antidote it was to then discover the bare joy and lightness of scuff mark of Dufy. His exquisite diagram of line and colour showed me that you didn’t scheme to paint heavily to verbal abuse deep – and I byword that lots of ‘things’ dump thought they were deep were in reality shallow, and equipped versa.

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Picasso 1932 (Tate Modern, 2018)

Mind-blowing. A shot in the thrash of pure creativity to jog one`s memory you how much can emerging done in a day, workweek or year if you sprig commit and work, work, be concerned. It helps if you’re unornamented genius – but you commode still do a lot meet a small brain!

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Seinfeld (1989–98)  

Perfectly crafted art, totally in control clamour its medium. So simple, up till so complicated. This TV amusement spanned 180 episodes and approachable pretentiousness, awfulness and humbug, eventually being brave enough to bring together the finger of accusation sharpen up itself.

It is a -karat, complete masterpiece.

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Rob Ryan’s first volume of his collected artwork, I Thought About It in Overcast Head and I Felt Square in My Heart but Uproarious Made It With My Hands, is published by Rizzoli, Unique York. For more on Rob’s work, see robryanstudio.com