I study the clothed and nude figure. My process begins long before the first mark: it starts with specific research, observation, and immersion. Only when I fully understand my subject I am ready to create.
Before I begin painting I empty my mind, I feel nothing, and through marks on any surface, immediate and poignant thoughts become known; I react to these. My surfaces are soaked with a variety of media, swallowing arrays of colour; a vocabulary to visually speak through. Whether it is through delicate lines, rhythmic washes, violent slashes, smears, tears or bleeds, emotions are released and images emerge.
Sex, gender, a pose, a gesture, confusion, power and pain, destruction and construction, all feature in the abstracted figures I depict.’
My figures are predominantly solitary. Flowers bloom as and when.
Before I begin painting I empty my mind, I feel nothing, and through marks on any surface, immediate and poignant thoughts become known; I react to these. My surfaces are soaked with a variety of media, swallowing arrays of colour; a vocabulary to visually speak through. Whether it is through delicate lines, rhythmic washes, violent slashes, smears, tears or bleeds, emotions are released and images emerge.
Sex, gender, a pose, a gesture, confusion, power and pain, destruction and construction, all feature in the abstracted figures I depict.’
My figures are predominantly solitary. Flowers bloom as and when.
ABOUT
ROB UNETT
Rob Unett grew up in Birmingham, England, before the era of digital saturation. The absence of constant stimulation fostered a vivid imagination and a lifelong sense of wonder.
His creative foundation spans art, drawing and painting, fashion—womenswear, menswear, textiles; print design —and extends into graphics, fashion communication, journalism, photography, choreography, film, show production, image-making culminating in his formal title as creative director.
Unett values art’s ability to personalise connection while remaining honest to the moment. His work channels raw emotion, memory, changing perspectives of reality and humans' capacity for wonderment. Unett’s Figures are magnified reflections of his own experience.
His practice has appeared in exhibitions, lifestyle stores, events, publications and journals across print and digital platforms. He continues to engage in new commissions, collaborations, consultancy, community work and outreach initiatives, all of which enrich and inform his artistic and pedagogical approach.
Clients and collaborators include: SHOWstudio, Tate, Vogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gala), BMW, Harrods, Selfridges, Liberty of London, Jigsaw, Dartington Trust, Newlyn School of Art, London College of Fashion (UAL), Pan and the Dream, Future Dreams, Cass Art, Based Istanbul, Aurum Arts Hong Kong, Crush, L’Officiel, Alexander McQueen, Tank Magazine, 10 Magazine, Decoy, Fashion Illustration Gallery, Michela Carraro, Danielle Scutt, amongst many others.
Rob Unett grew up in Birmingham, England, before the era of digital saturation. The absence of constant stimulation fostered a vivid imagination and a lifelong sense of wonder.
His creative foundation spans art, drawing and painting, fashion—womenswear, menswear, textiles; print design —and extends into graphics, fashion communication, journalism, photography, choreography, film, show production, image-making culminating in his formal title as creative director.
Unett values art’s ability to personalise connection while remaining honest to the moment. His work channels raw emotion, memory, changing perspectives of reality and humans' capacity for wonderment. Unett’s Figures are magnified reflections of his own experience.
His practice has appeared in exhibitions, lifestyle stores, events, publications and journals across print and digital platforms. He continues to engage in new commissions, collaborations, consultancy, community work and outreach initiatives, all of which enrich and inform his artistic and pedagogical approach.
Clients and collaborators include: SHOWstudio, Tate, Vogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gala), BMW, Harrods, Selfridges, Liberty of London, Jigsaw, Dartington Trust, Newlyn School of Art, London College of Fashion (UAL), Pan and the Dream, Future Dreams, Cass Art, Based Istanbul, Aurum Arts Hong Kong, Crush, L’Officiel, Alexander McQueen, Tank Magazine, 10 Magazine, Decoy, Fashion Illustration Gallery, Michela Carraro, Danielle Scutt, amongst many others.
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