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Rob Ryan - Paper cuts and prints

13 September - 20 October 2008

Swirling, intricate bells, birds, trees and stars fill the prints and paper cuts of silhouetted lovers surrounded by floating poetry. Rob Ryan shares his romantic thoughts with us at Castor and Pollux with an exhibition of screen prints, printed tiles and paper cuts. ‘My work operates on an openly emotional level, and it’s quite sentimental, which I don’t think is a bad thing.’You may not have visited Ryantown before, but you may recognise the work of Mister Rob through his many creative collaborations with Vogue, Paul Smith and Liberty. Here are tales and poems to rival the darkest of Grimm’s fairy-tales ‘The actual germ of an idea is just a moment of thinking, maybe that’s how things are, or how they should be, or how I want them to be.’

Rob Ryan - Ladder Kiss

Rob Ryan’s world is filled with dark as well as light, where love, hate, loss, pain, fear and death are to be found. All of which are very beautiful. The simple and straightforward subjects of Rob Ryan’s work are in marked contrast to the deceptively sophisticated manner  in which they are made; painstakingly hand-cut with the smallest scalpels from the most delicate of papers.

Posted by April on October 13th, 2008 | Read this post

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One Response to “Rob Ryan - Paper cuts and prints”

1. Charlotte Macleod Says:
   May 15th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

   Please could you let me know when Rob Ryan’s work becomes available.

   Thank you

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