Robert Dawson

Robert Dawson Willow Pattern with Uncertainty, print on bone china, dia. 27 cm, 2003

Robert Dawson is currently showing this piece at Jerwood Contemporary Makers, Jerwood Space, London

"This exhibition at the Jerwood Space in south London, the third in a series, shows us work by applied artists that has stolen a march on all those stuck-up fine artists out there. It is a collection of unique, hand-made objects crafted in a variety of materials, including felt, glass, clay, wood, plastic and woven basketware.

"These are works that often begin in the idea of usefulness, and then do a unique sideways drift into something slightly odder...Look at Robert Dawson's Willow Pattern with Uncertainty, for example, a bone-china dinner plate overprinted with that oh-so-familiar willow pattern. Except that this is not quite true. It is over-printed only in part. As your eye moves across the plate, the patterning begins to fog, fade, mist over. You are denied that customary pleasure..."

Review by Michael Glover, The Independent, 29 June 2010


More work by Robert Dawson pertaining to Willow Pattern, taken from his website www.aestheticsabotage.com:

Robert Dawson Can you walk from the garden, does your heart understand, 

print on bone china, each plate dia 27cm, 1996

Robert Dawson Old New Borrowed Blue, 

print on ceramic tiles, 3.6x7.35m, 2008, Churchill Hospital, Oxford

Robert Dawson In Perspective Willow 1, 

print on bone china, dia.27cm, limited edition, 1996