After a successful exhibition at Creative Art Gallery during Art in Woodstock last year, Rob has been invitied to show his work regualaly at the gallery.

 

Rob Good is an Oxford born artist who studied Sculpture at the University of Leeds, where he was awarded a 1st Class BA (Hons) degree in 2005. Prior to this he recieved a distinction for Foundation Studies in Fine Art from North Oxfordshire College of Art and Design. Rob's work has been exhibited in several venues around the country including Stroud, Huddersfield, Brighton and Oxford.

 

The series entitled 'Branch Out' has developed from a project started in the final year of university education. The intention was to create an installation using the limbs of a felled tree. Branches were to be arranged dynamically in an established space; however, an economy drive by the university resulted in a change of location of Fine Art studios and the graduating class of 2005 found themselves without adequate facilities and unsure of a venue for the final exhibition. With these problems in mind, Rob started to create a series of boxes merely as an aid, to establish his own space within an overcrowded studio in which he could experiement with different compositions of branches and twigs.

 

The boxes soon became an integral part of the work, and the working models grew into sculptures in their own right. The cubes offer a dialogue with the irregularity of the branches, and create a contrived union between the man-made world and that of nature. As these two worlds are forced together, a struggle unfolds between the boxes' normal state of containment and the natural wood's desire to grow and expand.