Richard Mark Rawlins

Richard Mark Rawlins currently lives and works in Hastings, United Kingdom. A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ work and research takes a particular interest in colonialism and the historical baggage associated with that. His work often touches on subjects including, but not limited to, race, Black identity, culture and diaspora politics.

In 2021, Rawlins was commissioned by Hospital Rooms, a U.K. based, Art and Mental Health charity to create a site-specific work for the Titian, PICU ward in Tooting. Rawlins’ work has been featured in Drawn Out, 2021; Drawing Room, London; the Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London; The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2021; Ingram Prize 2020; Wells Art Contemporary 2020; Photo Fringe 2020; The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2020-21; We Are More Than a Moment (2020) Gallery-51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA; Get Up Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London, UK (2019); “Transoceanic Visual Exchange 2019”, Cache Space, Beijing, China and The Barbados Museum and Historical Society; “OVERPR!NT, AG!TATE, ACT!VATE”, Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (2018); “Most things Happen When I Am Asleep”, ARTSPACE NZ, Auckland, New Zealand (2018); “Digital”, National Gallery, Jamaica (2015); the “Jamaica Biennial” (2014) and the “Global Africa Project”, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, USA (2010).

Rawlins has also been featured in the following publications: As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic: Selections from the Wedge Collection, 2021; Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art by David A. Bailey and Alison Thompson; Caribbean Art (World of Art) by Veerle Poupeye, Thames & Hudson and The Human Touch: Making Art Leaving Traces, Paul Holberton Publishing. He is a past artist resident of the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2012).

Rawlins’ work has been acquired by the Wedge Curatorial Collection, Toronto; AMBA Collection, London, the Soho House Art Collection, London and Brighton as well as the Art Collection of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain and a number of private collections.