Robin Ward
Photographer
Fine Art Instructor
Artist Statement
Ward works with a variety of photographic techniques. Currently she is working with Salt Prints. Her salt prints re-create the often-overlooked daily interdependent relationships that exist between humanity, nature, and the visual arts and sciences.
She enjoys repurposing collected objects found in nature to translate these into visual form. Her visual interpretation of the interdependent relationships and use of natural materials aligns with her aesthetics. This is derived from the Arts & Crafts movement where the Head, Heart, and Hand work in relation to each other and create as one. She understands the importance of the viewers direct involvement with her subject matter. Long titles offer viewers a trajectory in developing their own story or to recall memories.
Artist Biography
Robin McLaurin was born in Buffalo, New York. McLaurin works primarily in photography. Her photography practice includes digital, analog, alternative processes and sculptural techniques. She completed her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Art in 2014.
She has shown nationally and internationally. Her solo exhibitions took place at George Mason University, Virginia, the Arla-Ray Gallery, Texas and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. Selected group exhibitions include MAPS Space and the Affordable Art Fair, in New York City, Nails in the Wall Gallery, New Jersey, World Horizons Art as Mission, Middle East and The Austin Children’s Museum, Austin. She was shortlisted for Artpace Artist-In-Residence, San Antonio. Her publications include the CIVA Sourcebook and Baylorian. She was an awarded an Artist in Residence at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.
She has led Art Education workshops, lectures and served as a discussion panelist at the Texas Art Education Association, Society for Classical Leaning Conferences and the Association for Classical Christian Schools.
She volunteers as a professional photographer for the Heart Galley of Texas, an art exhibit intended to serve as a community outreach featuring children who are waiting for adoption