Ro Robertson, Skinny Dip

Featuring an essay by Eleanor Clayton, Head of Collections and Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, and a conversation with artist Alice Channer, Skinny Dip offers an in-depth survey of Ro Robertson's work over the past five years. Clayton’s essay delves into Robertson’s oeuvre and exhibition history, including The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, culminating in the solo exhibition The Ribs Begin to Rise, at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Comprising sculpture, works on paper, installation and video, The Ribs Begin to Rise reveals the full gamut of the artist’s achievement to date. In the final section of the book, documented by photographer Camilla Greenwell, Robertson and artist Alice Channer walk the Coast Path of West Cornwall, discussing everything from influences such as Barbara Hepworth and Marlow Moss to ideas around collective bodies and industrial processes – and art as a love letter to place and community.  

Ro Robertson (they/them) (b. 1984, Sunderland, UK) is based in West Cornwall, at the historic Porthmeor Studios, St Ives.

Design: Kaiya Waerea
ISBN: 978-1-0369-6641-6
Language: English
Publication Date: November 2025
Book: 280 x 233 mm
Publisher: Maximillian William, London.
Printed in an edition of 500 by KOPA, Biruliškės, Lithuania