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Robin Sullivan
Cornwall - London, UK.
b.1992
PUBLIC PROGRAMMES - Designed and led by artist Robin Sullivan
2024-2025 Abbey of St Edmund: Reborn, Development of a 3 year Public Programme comprising
56 projects, developed for English Heritage Trust, West Suffolk Council, St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
2024-2025 Newquay Monoliths, 3 Public Sculptures Commissioned by Experience Newquay,
Funded by the UK government Good Growth Scheme
Public programme engaging new and diverse local audiences in the creation and appreciation of new
public sculpture & local Heritage.
2022 - 2024 ‘’Grime’s Graves; Digging Deeper’’. 2 year public arts and heritage programming
engaging new audience in Grimes Graves Neolithic Flint Mine, English Heritage Trust, funded by the
National Lottery Heritage Fund.
2020 - 2021 And Everything And Nothing Has Changed. Public Arts & Heritage Programme, St
Austell, Cornwall. Lead Artists and Creative Producer.
Supported by Arts Council England, Austell Projects, Coastal Communities Fund, FEAST, Creative
Civic Change, West Carclaze Garden Village, Andrew McCall, Cultivator Cornwall & Cornwall
Heritage Trust.
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
2024 Newquay Monoliths, Commissioned by Experience Newquay, Funded by the UK government
Good Growth Project
2022 And Everything And Nothing Has Changed. Ceramic Sculpture, St Blazey, Cornwall.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2025 Newquay Monoliths Public Workshop Programme.
2024 How to raise a monolith, Science Museum, London with English Heritage Trust
2022 Rame Projects residency workshops
2022 How To Build A Barrow
2021 Kiln Building, building the first Petal Kiln in the UK designed by Andes Allik. through an ongoing
partnership with Cultivator Cornwall and The Creative Academy St Austell
2021 HOW TO BUILD A STONE CIRCLE, Temporary Art Space @ The Sky Tip as part of And
Everything And Nothing Has Changed.
TALKS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2025 Key Note Talk, Gateways Into Heritage, Youth Engagement Conference, English Heritage Trust,
York.
2024 English Heritage Trust, ‘Chairs Annual Reception’ Speech, Banking Hall, London
2023 Rame Projects Community Consultation
2022 Presentation and Q&A, Mater. In conversation with Christian Keeve (US) , Heather Barnet (NL)
& Maddie Rose Hills (UK) . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AEDC1hZCz8
2022 Artist Talk on And Everything And Nothing Has Changed, Future Foundry, Ceramic Art Dover,
Dover.
2021 Artist Talk on Art In The Public Realm. Royal College of Art, MA ceramics and Glass. London
2021 LANDSCAPE, THE FUTURE AND IMAGINATION. Podcast for Local Trust.
https://localtrust.org.uk/news-and-stories/blog/landscape-the-future-and-imagination/
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, In conversation with Rhys Morgan, CAMP (Contemporary Art Membership
Plymouth)
2021 ''Staying in and coming out: A reflection on the LGBTQ+ experience in creative Cornwall.''
Panellist for Real Ideals Organisation, Panel Discussion, Online
2020 BOTANY & BEYOND,White Gold Festival X Austell Project Digital Digging Festival, Online.
https://www.austellproject.co.uk/connections-between-st-austells-biodiversity-and-the-historic-clay-ind
ustry/
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DIGITAL COMMISSIONS
2022, Mater, Commissioned Photo Essay, https://mater.digital/chapterone/robin-james-sullivan/
2022 FAD Magazine
2019 Impermanence Dance, Bristol.
DOCUMENTARY
2021 And Everything And Nothing Has Changed, Landscape Archaeology of the St Austell China
Clay Area. Commissioned by Robin Sullivan, funded by Arts Council England, Cornwall Heritage
Trust, Creative Civic Change and Austell Project.
2020 The Hembury Bowl, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
(Artist/ Gabbroic Clay specialist)
RESIDENCIES
2024/5 Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
2022 Rame Projects, Cornwall. , Funded by Arts Council England, FEAST, and National Lottery
Heritage Fund.
2019 Lizard Peninsular, Cornwall.
PRESS & PRINT
2025 ITV News, Newquay Monoliths
2024 BBC News, ITV news, Grime’s Graves Digging Deeper
2022 FAD Magazine, Material Conversations and Mater commission.
2021 Referenced in Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures, Book. Neolithic
Studies Group Seminar Papers | Volume: 18
2021 Local Trust (Podcast)
2020 Assemblage Magazine Online https://www.assemblagemagazine.co.uk/robin-james-sullivan
2019 Referenced in Neolithic Studies Conference, British Museum, London.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Experience Newquay Public Sculpture, UK Government's Good Growth Fund
2024 Arts Council England DYCP
2023 SSW international Group Residency
2022 NI, Artist Network Time, Space, Money Grant Recipient
2022 Capital Investment Grant, Cultivator Cornwall
2022 Skills Development Grant, Cultivator Cornwall
2021 Cornwall Heritage Trust Grant Recipient
2020 Arts Council England, Project Grant Award Recipient
2020 FEAST, Smaller Project Grant Recipient
2020 Creative Civic Change Grant Recipient, (Local Trust, The National Lottery Community Fund, The CalousteGulbenkian Foundation, and Esmee Fairbairn foundation),
2019 White Gold International Ceramic Festival, Commission & Grant Recipient.
OTHER
2025 Consultant, English Heritage Trust, Youth Engagement and Anti-Social Behaviour
2025 Consultant, West Suffolk Council, English Heritage Trust, St Edmundsbury Cathedral
2024 Specialist Advisor to Creative Communities programmes at Creative
Kernow. Projects including Carn to Cove, C Fylm and FEAST, as well as newer and emerging programmes such as
Arts Lab and the Festivals Network.
2022 Stile Collective Cohort, http://www.stile-collective.co.uk
2020/21 Creative and Cultural Leadership Development Programme, Cultivator (1st Cohort).