Katya Robin
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Cupboard Love
My brush drawings of cleaners and coffee equipment are installed in the kitchen area of Bloc Studios.
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Cupboard Love is an installation of mixed-media drawings of everyday life by Katya Robin on show at Prosaic Projects in the breakout area and kitchenette Bloc Studios, Sheffield.
Katya describes it as “A peek inside my practice—part retrospective, part pantry—where I open the cupboard doors to review my stored work and cook up fresh ideas.”
The series of cleaners, titled Putzfrau (German for 'cleaning lady'), is painted in Prussian Blue, a highly staining pigment. Yellow acrylic accents are used to suggest the plastic cleaning equipment.
Above the kitchenette area are a selection of Katya’s Mourning Coffee Set. The spelling ‘Mourning’ is intentional as an allusion to grief.
Katya’s work blends personal narrative and social commentary, presenting domestic life as a place of creativity, memory, and connection.
Curated by Katya Robin with Sean Williams
A selection of Mourning Coffee drawings, installed in Prosaic Projects
Bloc Studios
51 Eyre Lane
Sheffield S1 4RE
14 February - 15 March 2025
12–4pm
Deserters
Life changing sickness is a commonality that connects many artists' otherwise disparate practices across decades, genres and lifetimes. Deserters asks, ‘What is the relationship between illness and making? ‘Good health’ has obvious merit – but what about the value of ‘ill health’?’
Society draws a line between the healthy and the sick; mind and body; good and bad. Artists often occupy the fault line between these definitions and while illness, a common theme in art and literature, can be seen as a symbol of alienation, it can also be the key to ‘desertion’ into a creative space.
This project brings together the work of 12 exhibiting artists and, sitting outside of the main funded exhibition, 12 online artists. Together, they reveal themes and modes that can be broadly described as: abstraction, repetition and pattern making; nature and healing; lying down while the world stands up; the body – whole and in parts; words and printed text.
Supported by Zoë Gingell, curator of Oriel Y Bont, Caroline Humphreys and Bella Kerr are co-curating Deserters, alongside Amanda Roderick, who is also creating its online presence.
The project is co-funded by the Arts Council Wales Create Fund, the University of South Wales and by the extra, unpaid time and goodwill of all the exhibitors, curators and other contributors.
Ty Crawshay
University of South Wales
Treforest CF37 1DL
3 April - September 2025
Group Shows
59 artists from across the UK and Europe exploring what painting is, and is not. Curated by Stephen Carley, Kate Jacob and Sean Williams
18th - 22nd February 2025
12 – 6pm
Bloc Projects
1 Eyre Lane
Sheffield S1 4RB
A show of contemporary painting curated by Kate Jacob and Sean Williams
Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
An exhibition of contemporary painting celebrating a wide range of approaches to the task and process of painting itself by 30 artists. Curated by Sean Williams and Jack Kettlewell
Minstrel Gallery, Sheffield