Robert Priseman
Visiting Fellow
Human Rights Centre,
University of Essex
Robert Priseman is a highly acclaimed artist with many international solo exhibitions from New York to London. Works by the artist are held in numerous public art collections including The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, The Mead Art Museum. Mass., The Royal Collection, London, the University of Hull Art Collection, Hertford Museum and The Northern Ireland Collection to name but a few. An interview with Robert by the renowned art historian and curator Michael Peppiatt appears in a new book published by Yale University Press 'Interviews with Artists, 1966 - 2011' (comprising some 45 interviews with artists such as Dubuffett, Sonia Delaunay, Henry Moore, Balthus, Bacon, Brassai, Oldenburg and Cartier-Bresson). Robert Priseman's work is themed, often focusing on issues concerning human rights such as his projects 'No Human Way to Kill' and 'Nazi Gas Chambers: From Memory to History'.