Leo Robinson lives and works in Glasgow. Leo graduated from the Manchester School of Art in 2016. In his work, Leo constructs speculative systems of knowledge and ritual through the lenses of religion, psychoanalysis, and diasporic experience.
With the creation of maps, diagrams, games, ritual objects and music, Leo introduces new networks of symbols as means to understand our connections to both inner and outer worlds. His work often suggests a future or parallel civilization in which these belief systems have been reconstructed from fragments, through acts of hybridity and reappropriation, as a form of healing from the legacies of colonial displacement and erasure.
During 2023, Leo completed a research and production residency at G.A.S. founded by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, supported by Tiwani Contemporary. Recent solo exhibitions include DREAM-BRIDGE-OMNIGLYPH, London Mithraeum, London, UK; On Exactitude, Indigo+Madder, London, UK, 2023; The Infinity Card, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK, 2022; Theories for Cosmic Joy, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK, 2019.
Recent group exhibitions include; Polymythologies, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK; The Trembling Museum, The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK, 2023; To The Edge of Time, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2021; Antechamber, Quench, Margate, UK, 2021; Bathing Nervous Limbs, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, 2021; tender spots in hard code…, Arebyte, London, UK, 2021.