Dr Rob Burton Phd North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Rob Burton is a researcher, academic, and critical artist working in the discipline of textile art whose research explores themes of memory, post memory, hauntology, identity and space, loss, and transformation. Rob Burton’s textile and fibre art practice intertextuality develops a conceptual dialogue between the innovative use of analogue, traditional approaches to making, and contemporary, emerging techniques and digital technologies. Rob creates colourful printed textile, fabric and mixed media artworks that represent the stories we tell. Inspired by literature, iconography, and personal stories his latest works celebrate colour, texture, fabric in layers of imagery. In symbols, colours, shapes and digitally printed photographs the unexpected often arises and visual tales arise.

Rob Burton is a York based artist who has been producing textile artworks for over 30 years. He regularly exhibits in solo, group and biennial visual art and textile and fibre art exhibitions globally with recent participation in exhibitions in Belgium, Italy, Ukraine, USA and Lithuania. For the past four years he has been invited to exhibit annually in the Busan Craft Artists Association exhibition in Busan, South Korea. Key collaborations include regular projects with international screendance practitioners WECreate Productions creating innovative costumes for site specific video and performance works – globally screened and award-winning video dance works. Rob has contributed conference papers and journal publications as well as book chapters in Reading The Thread, (Bloomsbury due October2024) and Responsible Fashion (Routledge April 2024).