‘It’s about direct connection with the landscape’ – Ro Robertson (2024)

Video (4:56): Cornwall-based artist Ro Robertson create a new installation in the galleries at Tate St Ives. The artwork, Interlude responds to the tidal zone of Porthmeor Beach outside the gallery, inspired by the ever-shifting boundary between land, ocean, and sky. Video by Tate, 2024.

Robertson approaches the landscape through the lens of LGBTQIA+ experience, commenting ‘we are part of a diverse natural world in constant flux where boundaries aren’t binary and rigid but rather flow in constant harmony’.

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About Ro Robertson

Ro Robertson (they/them) (b. 1984, Sunderland, UK) is a contemporary artist based in West Cornwall. Robertson’s practice spans sculpture, drawing, painting and video, mediums through which they explore the boundaries of the human body and its environment. Robertson works site specifically, often outdoors, with a multi-sensory focus on the body in the landscape. Unity between the material of the natural landscape and the body reclaims a space for LGBTQ+ identity against a history of being deemed ‘against nature’. – MAXIMILLIAN WILLIAM gallery