Robin Leverton

Artist and Technologist

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  • gL1_cH

    My interest in Glitch art came about whilst watching the film ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ by Director Godfrey Reggio featuring a superb soundtrack composed by Philip Glass. The file I was watching had been corrupted in some places causing the distortions seen below. I felt that this style of distortion would be advantageous to my studies of landscapes. I came upon

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  • Landscape Study 2

    Here is a collection of buildings and artworks that have informed this painting. I think the painting itself is fairly successful. I wanted to keep in the grid to be a bit reminiscent of 90s vector art posters and the contrast between the bare mdf background and the vibrant paint provides a digitally derelict aesthetic.

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  • Landscape Studies

          One of the most important elements of my figure drawings is the landscape that encompasses the characters. My wish is for these landscapes to feel as expansive as those of surrealist origins, but not be directly surreal. Furthermore, Having encountered the work of Artist Gordon Cheung  I have really wanted to try and

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  • Shirazeh Houshiary: Smell of First Snow at Lisson Gallery

    The arabic words adorning Shirazeh Houshiary’s work are something to be seen. Without a familiarity to the language system, the press release is the only way of discerning that the patterning is in fact made up of words. From far away, they form a field that sits in front of the viewers eye, slightly obscuring

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  • 100 Cups of Tea, 2014

    I made this film last year as part of my A2 in Art and Design. I previously uploaded it to youtube but it got taken down for being too long, however now it is up and available for watching. This piece was very important for me, as much of my work today, including all the

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  • Business Cards!

    Front Back 1 Back 2 Back 3 Back 4 Back 5

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  • Gaining Perspective

    This painting has taken about a week to produce, and although there are places which may need a bit of a retouch, that would mainly involve repainting whole sections and I just wanted to get the image out. The conception of the piece is very literal and to some degree a bit immature. I submitted

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  • Configuration: 11

    Marking out the dots from the positions of peoples heads in Victoria station. After the background has been painted. (Messed up at the bottom, didn’t realise the paint wouldn’t be thin enough to see through.) Finished Piece. The colours are dictated by the number of triangles in a group + the number sides bordered by

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  • Configuration: 10

    This piece was created using the thumbtack pattern used in the first 5 ‘configurations’. The pattern of dots is repeated here 12 times, as can be seen by the slight grouping of density. The colour choice was made by taking a random set of colours, arranging them in order of darkness and then matching that

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  • Configuration: 9

    In configuration 9 the rule I used was that instead of using colour as the positive element dictate the fill, I’d let the traditionally negative elements i.e. white and the background prime colour dictate how the fill is carried out. This comes from how I have begun to read into John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg

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