Robert Powell

Scottish artist Robert Powell is one of the sharpest and most amusing contemporary artists to capture human folly. Here are three works from a series of Plague paintings. Kilmorack Gallery 2020

You put the magnifying glass up to a Robert Powell etching and what do you see? It’s always eye-poppingly detailed and enlightening: an over-crowded island after the flood, Daphne escaping...

These pieces draw on themes connected to automata, mechanisation and artificial intelligence. They look at identity, agency, and they wonder what it might be to be human.