Richard Mark Rawlins

A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to the “pop-cultural” poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, black identity and diaspora politics.

Rawlins was one of the commissioned artists for the World Reimagined Project (2022), where he created a work exploring the Transatlantic Slave Trade that was exhibited in the City of Leicester and later in Trafalgar Square. Rawlins has also been commissioned by Hospital Rooms, an Art and Mental Health charity to create a site specific works for the Titian, PICU ward in , Goodmayes Hospital (2021) and more recently the new Springfield Hospital, Tooting (2022). Rawlins’ work has featured in The Derwent Drawing Prize, 2022; Breaking Bread, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, (2022); 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).