Caitlin Robb
Contemporary Artist
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Originally from Fife; Caitlin Robb currently reside in Aberdeen, after recently graduating with a First Class BA(Hons) Contemporary Art Practice degree from Gray’s School of Art.
As a contemporary artist, she explores topics such as the natural world, anatomy, spirituality, and social issues. Caitlin’s current practice is about death; particularly the taboo that surrounds it and her respect for other creatures. In the hope of strengthening her practice and understanding of death, Caitlin has been researching the rituals surrounding death in Scotland’s past and present-day cultures in other parts of the world.
The nature of Caitlin’s practice is interdisciplinary. Using a mixture of drawing, printmaking, analogue photography, ceramics, and poetry. Each of these traditional processes has its own unique attributes, but they are all connected by their ritualistic nature. Caitlin believes that being intimately involved in the making of the works, allows her to truly honour the dead.
She is motivated by empathy and reverence for the forgotten; the dead and other creatures, particularly those hurt by humanity. The use of animal skulls, that have been ethically found or entrusted to me by friends form the foundation of her practice to show reverence to these creatures, even in death.