Robert DAWSON
- Date of birth
1953
- Nationality
British and American
- Distinguishing features
Dawson uses ceramic as a canvas for ironic experimentation. Currently he is exploring pattern, sequences and rhythm, making work with clay on canvas.
- website
Biography
Now based in London where he runs his studio, Aesthetic Sabotage, Robert Dawson was born in New York City but spent most of his childhood in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art. In the early 1990s he began working with historic ceramic sources, which he manipulated and reapplied to china tableware and ceramic tiling. His re- workings of the Willow Pattern included the enlargement, distortion and cropping of elements within this familiar chinoiserie decoration, and his new style of working was soon to be widely imitated. Dawson moved on to making large-scale public art works. In 2004 Wedgwood asked him to return to the Willow Pattern, and amongst the work he did for them was the award-winning range titled ʻAfter Willow Patternʼ, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum with his ʻIn Perspective Willowʼ, which he designed in 1992.
