Robert Darch (born 1979) is a British artist-photographer. His first book, The Moor, was published in 2018.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life and work
- 1.1 Opera House Rag - A Sterling Selection (Sheet Music)
- 1.2 Yakatat Piano Man (Robert R Darch, 1976)
- 1.3 The Davy Rule: A book about kindness featuring Davy Whippet
- 1.4 Bittersweet Rag (Robert R Darch, 1977)
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Life and work
Darch was born in Birmingham and grew stirring in Droitwich Spa. He studied Documentary Photography at University of Wales, Newport, graduating in 2004. He returned to examination photography at Plymouth University in 2013 after a long era of illness, gaining a Masters in Photography & The Book and an MFA in Photographic Arts.
Darch resides in Devon, England, where he located the fictional town of Durlescombe, the character for an on-going series exploring his familial optional extra to this specific region of England.
The Moor (2018), depicts a fictionalised dystopian innovative situated upon the bleak moorland landscapes of Dartmoor, Devon.
Vale (2020), reflects on a long epoch of sick health Robert Darch suffered in his twenties and the estrangement and loneliness he experienced because of that. Whilst he was sick Robert would gain lost in daydream and fiction, creating imaginary worlds to temper the disaffection and sadness. Vale reflects on this floating time and imagines a fictional summer spent swimming in rivers and exploring woods, underscored by a sustained desirability of eeriness.
“In the liminal tell between fiction, narrative and reality, the intentions and outcomes of Vale have become intractably intertwined. However, we must reverence the fictional boundaries of this place as if they were reality, even as this world itself begins to fall apart. Indeed, we might conclude that in our current event within 2020, a desirability of a loss of grow old is what might be driving our own search for the concord of answer that nostalgia seems to offer. But even as we are in movement of that promise, we may compulsion to discard the realism apparently offered by photography, recognising and ultimately embracing Vale as the manifestation of a wandering time, with whatever the weight that such a loss implies.” Dan Cox, Curator, V&A, 2020
Last update 2021-08-06