About

_{Robert Dingle has an ongoing interest in drawing as both a physical act and an intellectual proposition. His large-scale, monochromatic works are durational in nature, shaped through extended periods of making in which minimalist and geometric abstractions emerge from processes of research and data gathering. Drawing becomes a site where time, labour, and information accumulate.}

_{Working primarily in the studio, Dingle shifts between multiple drawings simultaneously, using graphite sticks, wax, chalk and charcoal. His practice occupies a space between abstraction and figuration, and while his works appear minimal, they are underpinned by complex layers of information and statistical data.}

_{Carefully mapped and painstakingly executed, each composition emphasises duration and repetition as critical elements of the work. Through this process, Dingle invites viewers to consider their own physical yet transitory relationship with the world, and the often-invisible systems—environmental, economic, and temporal—that shape it.}

_{Robert Dingle}
_{studio (at) robertdingle (dot) com}

_E_{ducation
MFA Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2007–09)
BA Fine Art at University of Brighton (2002–05)}

_{Exhibitions & Commissions}
_{2025 – 22 Iliffe Yard, London}
_{2024 – Hidden House Gallery, London}
_{2023 – Consort Gallery, London
2022 – Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
2022 – Frontier Gallery, Sheffield
2022 – Ryebank Gallery, Rye
2009 – Apart, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Biennial
2008 – Lighting Projects, Brighton Photo Fringe, Steyning Cement Works, Brighton
2008 – Would Silence the Apology, thirtyfive-a, Brighton}

_{Curatorial projects}
_{2021 – Elyse Blackshaw, Blythe Cheung & Marie Roux, Hello Nature, One Tree Hill, London
2021 – Elijah Maja, 432 Hurts, online at The Ballad of Peckham Rye
2021 – Kelly Lloyd, What will the future look like?, online at The Ballad of Peckham Rye
2020 – Read / Eat / Digest / Listen / Apply, online at The Ballad of Peckham Rye
2019 – French & Mottershead, Woodland, One Tree Hill Nature Reserve, London
2018 – Ilona Sagar, Correspondence O, South London Gallery, London
2017 – Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2017 – Ilona Sagar, Hesitant desire shall flourish in a soil not too strong, DKUK Salon
2015 – Lucy Joyce, Motorway Becomes Sea, Queens Road Peckham, London
2014 – Doug Fishbone, Peckham Ride – A Bespoke Bus Tour, Peckham, London
2013 – Like a Monkey Puzzle Tree, Copeland Park, London
2010 – The Gathering: Building the Arts Council Collection 1979 – 2009, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2010 – Oliver Beer, 20 Hoxton Square, London
2009 – Ciaran Begley, Overpass / Underpass, Hold & Freight, London
2009 – Sam Curtis, Justin Gainan, Ana Noble Nava, HFBK, Hamburg
2008 – Richard Hards, Emily Page Short, Tamsin Snow, Hold & Freight, London}

_Fellowships
_{2021- Royal Society of Arts}
_{2010 – Contemporary Art Society}
_{2009 – Arts Council Collection}

_{Awards & Grants}
_{2024 – Jackson’s Art Prize}
_{2022 – Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize}
_{2021 – United St Saviors, Project Grant
2019 – Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice, Curating Social Engaged Practice
2016 – Wellcome Trust Arts Award for Ilona Sagar, Correspondence O
2014 – Elephant Trust, Doug Fishbone for Peckham Ride – A Bespoke Bus Tour
2013 – Arts Council England for Like a Monkey Puzzle Tree
2011 – Gabo Trust, conservation grant
2009 – Elephant Trust, Ciaran Begley, Overpass / Underpass
2007 – Arts Council England,Lighting Projects
2006 – Arts Council England, Would Silence the Apology
2006 – Brighton & Hove City Council, Grass Roots Arts Award}

_Publications
_{2024 – Megazine. Summer 2024}
_{2024 – 101 Contemporary Artists and more. Vol 5 book edition}
_{2017 – Artist-Led Hot 100, commissioned by a-n with artist Kevin Hunt}