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  • The Saddest Sight of All, Freddie Robins. Click to enlarge.

    The Saddest Sight of All, Freddie Robins

  • Research

    Publications, Exhibitions & Other Outcomes

  • Publications

    Robins, F. (2010) 'The Imperfect', THERE Journal of Design, 6, 60–61

    Robins, F. (2010) in: In the Loop: Knitting Now, London: Black Dog Publishing, 18–23


    Exhibitions

    2012

    40:40 – Forty Objects for Forty Years, Crafts Council online exhibition, www.4040.org.uk

    WOW, The Gallery at Rheged, Penrith, Cumbria

    2011

    Entlang des Fadens (Along the Thread), Kunst Archiv Darmstadt, Germany

    Bite-Size: Miniature Textiles from Japan and the UK, Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, London, Gallery Gallery, Koyoto, Japan, and Nagoya University of the Arts and Sciences, Japan

    Contemporary Craft, HERE & NOW, Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2011, Korea

    Fifties, Fashion and Emerging Feminism [A contemporary response], curated by Day + Gluckman, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

    7th International Triennial of Contemporary Textile Arts, Tournai, Belgium

    Art & Fashion: Between Skin and Clothing, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

    A New Hook: Re-thinking Needlework, Museum Bellerive, Zurich

    Smile, Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, Wales, and touring UK; curated by Mary La Trobe-Bateman

    2010

    The Art of Fashion: Installing Illusions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

    Extraordinary Measures, Belsay Hall, Northumberland

    The Endless Garment, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

    Draw: Turning Thoughts into Line, Royal College of Art, London

    Making and Mending, Smiths Row (formerly Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery), Suffolk

    2009

    Dritto Rovescio, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, Katonah Museum of Art, New York

    Concerning Matter, curated by Day + Gluckman, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

    Think Tank Takes on Skill, Contemporary Applied Arts, London and touring Europe

    The Peckham Experiment, Camberwell Space, Camberwell Art College, London; curated by Space Station Sixty-five

    2008

    Cloth & Culture Now, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

    Deviants, Crafts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, the Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and touring

    Bottom Drawers, PM Gallery & House, London; curated by Carl Clerkin

    2007

    Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts & Design, New York and touring USA

    Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

    Body, Nobody, Somebody, West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen, Norway (solo)

    The Perfect, Contemporary Applied Arts, London (solo)

    Anytown; Artists’ Responses to the Urban Environment, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent

    Wintry, Lounge Gallery, London

    2006

    Johnny Foreigner, Kunstforum Rheinhessen, Essenheimer Kunstverein, Germany


    Other Outcomes

    2010

    Selection and curation of Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2010 with Hans Stofer (chair) and Richard Slee

    2006

    Partial View, selection and curation of BANA (Bath Area Network for Artists) members’ work, Widcome Studios Gallery, Bath


    Work is held in the following public collections:

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Crafts Council, London; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum, Scotland; West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen, Norway; Szombathely Art Gallery, Hungary