Robert Fearns
- Part time Lecturer
- Email: r.fearns@bathspa.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)1225 875809
- School: Bath School of Art, Film and Media
Personal statement
I work with video, text, digital imagery and live presentation to explore the various states of mind through which we experience and understand the world around us. From the distraction of the motorway driver – ‘Beautiful Place’, to the concentrated descriptions of city streets – ‘Inter.’
Often I work collaboratively, with a composer to produce extended ‘concert’ events, or with other artists on community or cultural exchange projects. Currently I am working with an architect on a film about the recently destroyed areas of Bucharest, and preparing a paper on visual/literary description for publication and for presentation at conferences.
Academic qualifications
- BA Bath Academy of Art
- MA Slade School of Fine Art.
Teaching specialism
- Fine Art
- Media/video.
Current scholarship
- Paper on visual/verbal description presented at 'Transversalities' conference, Reading University.Sept 2005
- Presentation and screening of 'Off the Map' Bartlett school of Architecture. University College London. Mar 2007.
Recent professional updating
Arts Council England award 2004.
Research projects
- Illuminate Bath, 2012 - Attracted to Light film
- Forge projects
- Room Artspace
- Illuminate Bath, 2010
Research and academic outputs
2 Public sculptures as part of 'Forge Projects' (Icon Development, Street; Old Sarum, Salisbury)
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Fearns, R and Cockayne, A (2010) 2 Public sculptures as part of 'Forge Projects' (Icon Development, Street; Old Sarum, Salisbury).
Public Art/Landscaping Commission, Portmarine, Portishead
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Fearns, R and Cockayne, A (2005) Public Art/Landscaping Commission, Portmarine, Portishead.
Public Art/Landscaping Commission Forum Development Bath
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Fearns, R and Cockayne, A (2005) Public Art/Landscaping Commission Forum Development Bath.
Portmarine, narrative sculpture garden
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Fearns, R and Cockayne, A (2004) Portmarine, narrative sculpture garden.
Public Art/Landscaping Commission Forum Development Bath
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Fearns, R and Cockayne, A (2001) Public Art/Landscaping Commission Forum Development Bath.
Solo and group exhibitions
exhibition
Fearns, R (2009) Solo and group exhibitions. ROOM, London, UK, 23 July - 23 August 2009.
Open West Exhibition
exhibition
Fearns, R (2009) Open West Exhibition. Cheltenham, UK, 21 February - 27 March 2009.
Off the map: In Bucharest
exhibition
Fearns, R and Marinescu, Ioana (2006) Off the map: In Bucharest. Bratianu Palace, 6 Visarion Street, Bucharest.
Inter 2005
exhibition
Fearns, R and Bejenaru, M (2005) Inter 2005. ROOM Gallery, Bristol; VECTOR Gallery, Iasi, Northern Romania.
Illuminate Bath: light projections
performance
Fearns, R (2010) Illuminate Bath: light projections. In: Illuminate Bath, Bath, UK, 25-28 January 2012.