Reminiscence is a powerful thing, musing over poignant moments and capturing glimpses of times gone. My project is a photographic archive, study and collection that encompass elements of my early teens, growing up and the fragile years of discovering who you are and where you fit. I want my work to visually unlock and communicate moments of my childhood and question if today’s youth can connect and understand these inanimate objects. My photographic imagery has been created in the darkroom, exploring the simple traditional process of photograms. I have endeavoured to communicate the rawness of sound and visually stimulate a response to the viewer’s nostalgic memories. Can photographs capture a moment and allow us to return to our naive young selves? Does sound and music echo in your mind when these specimens confront you? In these studies, cassette tapes are exhibited in shallow cylindrical glass Petri dishes to form part of an ‘experiment’ to transport us back to that moment. I want us to consider how the impact of objects, processes and words can prompt a reaction to a photograph.

About

Robins is a photographic visual artist and educator in FE from Leicester, UK. Much of Robins artwork creations has stemmed from observation of the mundane and daily life. Nostalgia, memories and conceptionally constructed scenarios often emerge and question within her storytelling. Visual language, narrative and aphoristic humour collide with her compositions and observations: collections, artefacts, portraiture merge and hit with memorabilia within her still-life photographs. Robins has always been an image maker that explores objects, shapes, textures, and meanings. She likes to question the real. It’s pretty easy to recognise that the mundane is never mundane in Robins compelling creations.