Freddie Robins

Freddie Robins

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Name:

Freddie Robins

Department:

Textiles

Homepage:

http://www.freddierobins.com

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Expertise:

textiles, knitting, craft, applied art, design, curating contemporary craft

Job title:

Senior Tutor, Textiles (Knitted Textiles)

Biography:

Freddie Robins is an artist who challenges our perception of knitting as craft. Her work is internationally renowned, her practice crossing the boundaries of art, design and craft. "The centrepiece of Freddie Robins's new show comes as something of a shock. A floor-based installation of knitted life-size bodies - displayed as an interlocking circle - it brilliantly transforms the craft of knitting into conceptual art," wrote Liz Hoggard in a review of 'The Perfect' at Contemporary Applied Arts, London.

Qualifications:

MA(RCA) Textiles, Royal College of Art 1987-1989 BA(Hons)1st Class,Constructed Textiles, Middlesex Polytechinic 1984 - 1987

My Latest

Robins, Freddie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2561-4450, 2022, Journal Article, Stab it, strangle it: Media representations of knitters, and subversions of the stereotype to reflect inclusion and diversity TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1751-8350
Robins, Freddie and Coode-Adams, Ben, 2018, Journal Article, The Blackwater Polytechnic - Resistant Materials Sluice magazine, 2018 (A/W). pp. 14-21. ISSN 2398-8398
Robins, Freddie, 2018, Conference or Workshop, Who's scared of the soft stuff? at Feminisms and Materialisms, Royal College of Art, 25th May 2018.
Robins, Freddie, 2018, Conference or Workshop, Collected - used and abused at In the Loop @ 10, University of Southampton, UK, 19 - 20 July 2018.
Robins, Freddie, 2015, Conference or Workshop, But Freddie’s a boys' name, and boys don’t knit at (Dis)identifications: Gender Matters in Practice, ICA, London, UK, 27 May 2015.
Robins, Freddie, 2014, Show, Exhibition or Event, Yan Tan Tethera
Robins, Freddie, 2016, Conference or Workshop, What do I need to do to make it OK? A journey through the different OKnesses, or rather the ways that I have tried to make it OK for myself, and others at On Damage and Repair, Crafts Study Centre, UCA, Farnham, UK, 2 March 2016.
Robins, Freddie, 2013, Conference or Workshop, The Fiction of Function at In the Loop 3.5: Making Connections, Shetland Museum, Lerwick, Shetland, 31 July - 2 August 2013. (Unpublished)
Robins, Freddie, 2013, Show, Exhibition or Event, Out on a Limb, The Project Space, COLLECT 2013
Robins, Freddie, 2012, Conference or Workshop, Counterculture Crochet - Cosy at Counterculture Crochet, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK, 6 July 2012. (Unpublished)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions	516	212
2	Counterculture Crochet - Cosy	449	212
3	The Endless Garment: The New Craft of Machine Knitting	375	377
4	The Perfect	342	184
5	Out on a Limb, The Project Space, COLLECT 2013	339	334
6	Think Tank takes on 'Skill'	336	62
7	Ceremony	312	68
8	The Fiction of Function	299	60
9	The Imperfect	296	351
10	Cut on the Bias: Textiles, Collaboration and Pedagogy	257	21

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