Up Close

Rob Kesseler

Foreword by Jenni Lomax

Up Close showcases the career of artist Rob Kesseler, who is inspired by the exotic forms and luscious colours of the plant world and the way in which they infiltrate every aspect of our lives.

290 x 260 mm

208 pages

Hardback

ISBN: 978-1-906506-07-0

£25.00

Subject: Art & Design

Using a wide range of familiar materials and objects, from ceramics to furniture and drawing to photography, Rob Kesseler creates sensual sculptures and emblematic images that celebrate each subject in a uniquely personal way.

Up Close traces his career starting with his early work that explores the tensions between artifice and imitation and the paradoxes of representing nature to his most recent work that reflects current enlightened thinking that seeks to exploit the benefits of collaboration between artists and scientists.

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Rob Kesseler

Visual artist Rob Kesseler is University of the Arts London Chair in Arts, Design & Science. His long career has often used plants as a source of inspiration. In 2001 he was appointed NESTA Fellow at Kew. Since then he has worked with microscopic plant material. He was 2010 Year of Bio-Diversity Fellow at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal. His work has been shown in museums and galleries in the UK, Europe and North America, including solo exhibitions at The Victoria & Albert Museum, Kew Gardens and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. He is a fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Society of Arts.

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