May’s Resident Artist

Robin Phoenix Whitehouse (2000) is a British-born artist, living and working in The Hague NL. He grew up on the Lizard and obtained a BFA from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague in 2023. His practice is rooted to the environments he inhabits, the projects are durational, taking place over multiple years and routed within specific contexts; public space, art history and archeological discourse. As opposed to a studio based practice, the works’ creation tends to involve a direct interaction with a place or audience, be that meetings, happenings or facilitating.
Throughout the month at Back Lane West, he has been working en plein air in the landscapes surrounding the studio. These small paintings capture traces of the area’s mining past alongside
the evolving views of Redruth, St Day, and Carn Brea.