Robert Powell: Phantom Things
A highly scholarly body of work, Phantom Things both intellectually and visually identifies the oddly dystopian future we face as a result of our constant need to collect and consume.
In this, Robert’s second solo exhibition with The Fine Art Society, his singular voice draws attention towards our obsessions with past utopias that now appear untenable in contemporary western society. This is explored through our relationship with objects, and the emotional significance we often attach to them, reminding us of particular events or individuals. In Powell’s work, this sentiment has been disrupted by the commercial wasteland of consumerism; we are left, instead, with the cultural hauntings of these ‘phantom things’.
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Robert PowellA History of Leaves II or Apollo and Daphne, 2019signed, titled and numbered in pencillithograph and watercolour8 5/8 x 15 in
22 x 38 cmedition of 9 -
Robert PowellThe Arcadians, 2016signed 'Robert Powell', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginlithograph and watercolour13 1/2 x 20 1/2 in
34.3 x 52.1 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Bartender, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine'watercolour11 x 14 1/2 in
27.9 x 36.8 cm -
Robert PowellBelly of the Street, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine' and titledgraphite, ink and watercolour19 x 27 1/2 in
48.3 x 69.8 cm -
Robert PowellThe Bridge, 2019signedwatercolour6 5/8 x 9 in
17 x 22 cm -
Robert PowellCenotaphia or The Bone Shakin’, Finger Snappin’, Skull-Claspin’, Halicarnassian Fun Park of Mausolus: Putting the Excitement Back into Melancholy, the Laughs Back into Lamentation, the Mirth into Mourning, 2014signed, titled and numbered 'VE 2/6' in pencil to marginetching and watercolour11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
29.8 x 29.8 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellColumbarium, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered in pencil to marginlithograph9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in
24.8 x 34.9 cmedition of 12 -
Robert PowellCupboard, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour12 x 6 in
30.5 x 15.2 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Deep Tower: Lebab, 2019signedpencil and watercolour21 x 27 1/4 in
53.3 x 69.2 cm -
Robert PowellDeluge or The Left Behind, 2019signed, titled and numbered 5/12 in pencil to marginlithograph and watercolour18 1/4 x 9 in
46.4 x 22.9 cmEdition of 12 -
Robert PowellThe Exiles, 2019signed, titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginlithograph, monotype and watercolour8 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
21 x 31 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellField Guide to Fantasia, 2019signed 'Robert Powell' and 'Jenny Paine' and numberedlithograph27 1/2 x 38 3/4 in
69.8 x 98.4 cmedition of 9 -
Robert PowellThe Grey Wallpaper, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginlithograph and watercolour15 x 10 1/4 in
38.1 x 26 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellGrisaille I: Old Hamlet, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour16 1/2 x 10 1/2 in
41.9 x 26.7 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellGrisaille II: The Witch of Endor, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour16 1/2 x 10 1/2 in
41.9 x 26.7 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Haunted Grove, 2020signed, titled and numbered 1/6digital print16 x 31 3/4 in
40.6 x 80.6 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Hole in the Ground, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/8 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour7 x 6 3/4 in
17.8 x 17.1 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Invisible Hand, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled, and numbered 1/2 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour13 x 12 in
33 x 30.5 cmedition of 2 -
Robert PowellThe Joy of the Worm: Cadmus and Typhon, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginlithograph and watercolour8 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
21.6 x 47 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Killing Moon or The Ascent of Abraham and Isaac, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginlithograph and watercolour15 x 8 1/2 in
38.1 x 21.6 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Lesson, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered in pencil to marginetching and watercolour6 1/4 x 12 in
15.9 x 30.5 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellLibrary of the Blind or Memory of Babel, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour16 1/4 x 24 in
41.3 x 61 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Object Lesson or The Revolution of Whispers, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine'ink, gouache and watercolour29 3/4 x 22 in
75.6 x 55.9 cm -
Robert PowellOne-Eyed Man, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine'watercolour13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in
33.7 x 23.5 cm -
Robert PowellOubliette, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine'ink and watercolour16 x 9 in
40.6 x 22.9 cm -
Robert PowellPhantom Things, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour3 1/2 x 37 in
8.9 x 94 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellPool of Narcissi, 2019signedwatercolour9 1/8 x 13 in
23 x 33 cm -
Robert PowellReliquary châsse for a Samsung T100, tragically deceased some time in 2004 and containing many messages, voice recordings, and photographs from my youth, now sadly inaccessible, 2020with Mark Powelletched copper plates and ink5 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 3 3/8 in
15 x 7 x 8.5 cm -
Robert PowellRevenant City, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine'ink15 x 11 in
38.1 x 27.9 cm -
Robert PowellSarcophagus for a superhero, 2020aged oak and pine7 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 1 1/2 in
19.5 x 9.5 x 4 cm -
Robert PowellSee? Saw., 2020titled, signed 'Robert Powellaine' and dated 2020ink and watercolour11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
30 x 42 cm -
Robert PowellThe Seance: Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Monboddo, Charles Darwin and David Hume, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/2 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour15 1/2 x 15 in
39.4 x 38.1 cmedition of 2 -
Robert PowellSeer: Brahan Seer and the Scottish Aleph, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/2 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour15 1/2 x 12 in
39.4 x 30.5 cmedition of 2 -
Robert PowellThe Staircase, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/10 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour4 1/2 x 13 in
11.4 x 33 cmedition of 10 -
Robert PowellStone Web, 2014signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled 'The Stone Web / or The Subterranean Spelunking and Careful Cthonic Exhumation of Vivant Denon and Antonio Bosio' and numbered 3/6 in pencil to marginetching, aquatint and watercolour11 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
29.2 x 29.8 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThings, 2016signed, titled and numbered 1/6 in pencil to marginetching, screenprint and watercolour15 3/8 x 15 3/8 in
39 x 39 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Work of the Dead, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginetching and watercolour15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
40 x 40 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Yellow Wallpaper or the Confinement of Danaë, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/6 in pencil to marginlithograph, gouache and watercolour10 x 13 in
25.4 x 33 cmedition of 6 -
Robert PowellThe Plague Year I: The Doctors, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/7 in pencil to marginlithograph9 1/4 x 12 3/4 in
23.5 x 32.4 cmedition of 7 -
Robert PowellThe Plague Year II: The Annunciation, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/7 in pencil to marginlithograph9 1/4 x 12 3/4 in
23.5 x 32.4 cmedition of 7 -
Robert PowellThe Plague Year III: The Horseman, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/7 in pencil to marginlithograph9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
23.5 x 31.1 cmedition of 7 -
Robert PowellThe Plague Year IV: The Enclosed , 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered V/E 1/7 in pencil to marginlithograph9 1/4 x 12 1/2 in
23.5 x 31.8 cmedition of 7 -
Robert PowellThe Plague Year V: The Cannon, 2020signed 'Robert Powellaine', titled and numbered in pencil to marginlithograph9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in
23.5 x 29.2 cmedition of 7