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Robert Ford
United Kingdom
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 23.5x31.5in
About this artwork
My practice examines how power, identity, and culture are assembled and exchanged. I portray ritual objects, crowns, masks, and hybrid faces as recurring signifiers—not static emblems but active participants in negotiated histories. Central to this inquiry is an examination of early slavery and how it laid the groundwork for the accumulation of wealth: how labor, extraction, and systems of visual authority were coded into economic value and cultural…
capital. Sources range from Surrealist juxtaposition and folk narrative practices to tribal ornamentation and early modern colour experiments; these influences shape a visual language that places mythic and everyday forms in persistent tension.
Taken together, the work presents a sustained inquiry into cultural hybridity and the mechanics of representation. The paintings convey complex relationships between claim and belonging, spectacle and intimacy, inherited narratives and personal memory.
Taken together, the work presents a sustained inquiry into cultural hybridity and the mechanics of representation. The paintings convey complex relationships between claim and belonging, spectacle and intimacy, inherited narratives and personal memory.
Robert Ford
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Works on commission
I am a seasoned painter with an MA in Fine Art from UAL London, primarily uses oil on canvas and heavy art paper, enriched by decades of experience as a creative in the London advertising world. His work employs narrative-driven imagery with social and political undertones, characterised by humour, irony, ambiguity, and quiet visual tension rather than overt statements. My art invites viewers into open-ended interpretation, conveying a blend of subtle wit and reflective ambiguity, encouraging emotional discovery and personal resonance.
A lifelong commitment to Art, I spent 6 formative years in formal art training in the 1960's, laying the foundation for a lifetime of visual storytelling. . 45 years in advertising as an artist, followed by an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, at Camberwell School of Art, refining my art practice, graduating 2009. 10 years devoted to developing my painting, until I was satisfied as to the standard of my work-born of discipline & purpose. It
A lifelong commitment to Art, I spent 6 formative years in formal art training in the 1960's, laying the foundation for a lifetime of visual storytelling. . 45 years in advertising as an artist, followed by an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, at Camberwell School of Art, refining my art practice, graduating 2009. 10 years devoted to developing my painting, until I was satisfied as to the standard of my work-born of discipline & purpose. It
Robert Ford
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