Current Work - robert hollingworth

   "I once owned a Schmidt-Cassegrain catadioptic telescope that was so powerful you could see the rings of Saturn and count Neptune’s moons. Then it was stolen and soon after I lost interest in star gazing. Instead, I began to take an interest in the night sky and deep space as a subject for art. Hubble Space telescope images offer good source material – but I did not want to emulate astrophotography in the way photorealists copy photographs; I did not want to represent what is real any more than science fiction does. Instead, my intention was to use the cosmos as metaphor for human longing."
(Exerpt from essay: Somewhere, Out There. Robert hollingworth)

2010

Intelligence 2
 

    2009 - 2010
   All works acrylic on canvas. 122cm X 168cm unless otherwise stated