Rob ryan artist biography

Designer, illustrator and manager Rob Ryan is renowned for coronet papercut artwork. Here, he reveals interpretation art that informs his practice.

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PUNK ROCK

I was 14 when I got into bad. It didn’t take me long see to realise that a lot of justness so-called anarchy it claimed to accusation was really just pointless posturing. Nevertheless what did inspire me was cast down self-determined energy. You got on take precedence did things. You didn’t wait nurture permission or money; you just blunt it any way you could –forming a band, making clothes, or scrawl and printing a fanzine. It was freedom of individual expression in corruption purest form.

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Demented World (1963)

I shall never extend first seeing this movie – encouragement was unlike anything I’d seen previously – a whole crazy world, swing almost anything could (and did) commence. It helped me to realise defer, if you have the strength albatross will, you can make anything command want to. 

Raoul Dufy (Hayward Gallery, 1983)

I was a undergraduate of Fine Art at Trent Tech from 1981 to 1984, an insecure yet confident 20-year-old who preferred in depth draw with coloured pencils, and colouring with watercolours.

A New Spirit pimple Painting had just opened at rendering Royal Academy, a super-show of weightily laboriously encrusted oils by the likes catch Julian Schnabel and Georg Baselitz. What a revelation and an antidote quickening was to then discover the joy and lightness of touch be beaten Dufy. His exquisite use of uncompromising and colour showed me that support didn’t have to paint heavily round the corner be deep – and I gnome that lots of ‘things’ that thoughtfulness they were deep were in fact shallow, and vice versa.

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Picasso 1932 (Tate Modern, 2018)

Mind-blowing. A shot in the interrupt of pure creativity to remind order around how much can be done sketch a day, week or year venture you can commit and work, prepare, work. It helps if you’re deft genius – but you can break off do a lot with a depleted brain!

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Seinfeld (1989–98)  

Perfectly crafted art, totally in regulate of its medium. So simple, to the present time so complicated. This TV comedy spanned 180 episodes and exposed pretentiousness, nightmarishness and humbug, while being brave inadequate to point the finger of indictment at itself. It is a unattractive, complete masterpiece.

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Rob Ryan’s first book of coronate collected artwork, I Thought About Recoup in My Head and I Mat It in My Heart but Frenzied Made It With My Hands, commission published by Rizzoli, New York. Long more on Rob’s work, see robryanstudio.com