Jeff Robb Available Works - Mauger Modern Art

Jeff Robb‘Unnatural Causes 2’

Lenticular Photograph, 100 X 100cm, Edition of 9

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JEFF ROBB

‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ 7 Lenticular Photographs

200 x 200 cmEdtion of 5

‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 1







‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 5’Lenticular Photograph

100 x 100 cmEdition of 6

‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 8’Lenticular Photograph100 x 100 cmEdition of 6



‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 10’Lenticular Photograph100 x 100 cmEdition of 6


100 x 100 cm Edition of 6

‘AERIAL 2 ’Lenticular Photograph100 x 100 cmEdition of 9

‘AERIAL 4’Lenticular Photograph


‘AERIAL 5’Lenticular Photograph100 x 100 cmEdition of 9

‘AERIAL 1’Lenticular Photograph


‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 1’Lenticular Photograph100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cmEdition of 6

‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 2’Lenticular Photograph

100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cmEdition of 6













BIOGRAPHY: JEFF ROBB

Jeffrey Robb (1965, Derbyshire, UK) trained at the Royal College of Art in London. Robb has always explored the illusion of a three-

dimensional image within the two dimensional space. First, he worked with holographic stereograms, transmission and reflection holograms

and laser light installations. Today, he is best know for his series of lenticular prints such as Other sides and Aerial: moving images derived

from painting, photography, computer graphics, film and video.

Following the 19th century obsession with movement which led to the invention of cinema, Robb creates 3D moving images by means of

lenticular photography, a hologram-like image that creates the illusion of depth and the possibility of seeing different sides of the image as we

look from different angles. His work shows splashing, tossing and turning female nudes where the artifice is not concealed but embraced as

Robb creates hybrid, robot-like creatures that come to life by the mere act of looking. The artist’s intention is to open a threshold that connects

our physical world with a virtual one. Our everyday experience and perception of the world is altered as our eyes have the power to move and

manipulate the constructed figures. His female bodies gravitate within the black box that contains them and are suspended between our real

world and the virtuality of their existence; they are liminal bodies: neither sculpture nor photographs, neither matter nor ether. They fully come

to existence in our brain, though an optical illusion. The spectator becomes Pygmalion: the Cypriot who could turn his perfect ivory female

stattu into a flesh and bone woman by means of a kiss.

Robbed from warmth and color, his female nudes correspond to today’s obsession with animated, cyber-like bodies which can be manipulated

as our virtual alter egos. His work strives towards a controlled perfection which is far from voluptuous or human. It represents the paradox

of 3D: closer to our senses but far from our flesh and bone. An artist avant la letre, Robb’s work can be fully appreciated today as a timely

image. His work has earned the attention of collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London or the Getty in L.A.

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