Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ
11 – 13 July 2024

The second annual Material Engagements Research Cluster (MERC) exhibition: Colour Made Manifest. This exhibition brings together practice-based and material-led academics from the Royal College of Art highlighting the world leading research taking place under the umbrella of the Material Engagements Research Cluster.

The overarching focus, questions and offers to illuminate the paradoxical realm of colour, through research activities exploring how the immaterial notion of colour can be explored and evidenced through a number of materialising projects. It also builds from staff discussions embedded within the MA and PhD group teaching this year prompted by Neil Parkinson and the RCA’s Colour Library Collection.

Through works-in-progress, finished outputs, and an attached event Colour Made Manifest will contextualise research alongside creating a generative space for research activities to happen.

For more information about the RCA Material Engagements Research Cluster

Gallery Season (SZN), 92 Brick Lane, London E1
13 – 16 July 2023

…proliferating materialities… is an exhibition bringing together researchers from the royal college of art under the banner of the material engagement… in an exhibition which evidences various approaches to material (whatever this means) informed research… through artworks… text… and… moving image… the exhibition explores the various ways artists andresearchers apply practice-led and theoretical approaches… artworks employ poetic… creative… tacit… and… embodied ways of expressing new forms of knowledge…considering the fluid traversal of knowledge between making… and… thinking…

Exhibitors include:
Felicity Aylieff, Jonathan Boyd, Heike Brachlow, Steve Brown, Annie Cattrell, Sarah Cheang, Johnny Golding, Rebecca de Quin, Celia Dowson, Peter Oakley, Mah Rana, Freddie Robins, Michael Rowe, Katie Spragg, Jo Stockham, Katharina Vones, Max Warren, RCA Material Engagements PhD Group.

For more information about the RCA Material Engagements Research Cluster

Freddie Robins’ new work funded by a-n Artists Bursaries 2021: Time Space Money

Journal Article
Robins, F., (2022) Stab It, Strangle It: Media Representations of Knitters, and Subversions of the Stereotype to Reflect Inclusion and Diversity. Textile: Cloth & Culture

Journal Article
Robins, F., Day, L., Gluckman, E., (2018) Unpicking the Narrative: Difficult Women, Difficult Work. Textile: Cloth & Culture, Volume 16 Issue 3

Book Chapter
Robins, F., (2017) Bad Mother in: Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance, Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press. Editors: Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, p.232-241 ISBN 978-1-77258-103-4

Journal Article
Robins, F., (2016). Bad Mother / Mad Mother. Studies in the Maternal. 8(2), p.19.

Journal Article
Robins, F., (2015). The Perfectly Imperfect. Making Futures Journal, Vol.4.

Journal Article
Robins, F., (2010) The Imperfect. THERE Journal of Design, 6, p.60–1.

Book Chapter
Robins, F., (2010) The Perfect in: In the Loop: Knitting Now, London: Black Dog Publishing, Editor: Jessica Hemmings

, p.18-23 ISBN 978-1-906155-96-4

Research proposal

Technical information and Development

Research Outcomes

Journal Article, Robins, F., (2016) The Perfectly Imperfect. Making Futures 4

Journal Article, Robins, F., (2010) The Imperfect. THERE Journal of Design, 6, 60–1.

Funders and Support

Royal College of Art – Research Profile