Supported residencies in Bangladesh, Nepal and Japan, together with his experiences working and travelling through South Asia have provided unique visual and conceptual contexts that continue to inform his sculptural and graphic practice. He constructs mixed-media photographic collage and sculpture in response to the built environment.

 

Architectural forms, graphic and street art are often imbued with diverse styles that may be seen as reliquaries of cultural migration, hybridity and authenticity. These idiosyncratic assimilations provide for a unique set of forms that trace the evolution of cultural, personal and regional identity. Although there is a universality that transcends style, modes of representation are influenced by the cultures that exist in and pass through them. These resultant motifs, forms and structures inform sculpture and collage.

‘When I am in a particular place categories are established and edits made of the photographs that I take whilst cycling and walking through these territories- such as in Tokyo, Kathmandu and Dhaka. Photographs are applied within mixed media collages and reflect a dynamic between homogeneous and hybridised styles of architecture and street art.

Images are cut, woven and pasted on top of and alongside each other onto found objects and handmade paper, utilising an interplay between both the cut image and its surrounding debris during their

arrangement.’

Exhibitions include the Trinity Buoy Working Drawing Award (2025–2026), galleryMcube, Being There: Impressions in Harmony (2024), British Council, Dhaka, Where the Lotus Grows, (2023), Royal West of England Open (2023, 2019), Asian Biennale, Dhaka (2023), Made in Tashkeel, Dubai (2022). His collage Dhaka Spread is included in the British Council’s collection in Bangladesh, and his sculpture Kat’ Towers Reprise is held by Chippenham Museum.

He recently led papermaking/mixed media workshops with students from Kathmandu University and with the British Council in Dhaka. As lead artist with the Thames Festival/British Council he delivered art workshops in Bangladesh as part of the Rivers of the World.

He has MA in sculpture and was awarded a AHRB bursary to study MA ceramics after achieving a First-Class degree in sculpture at Bath Academy of Art. Richard was the Visual Art Curriculum Specialist for the Ministry of Education in the UAE, is a Salzburg Global Foundation fellow, and serves as curriculum advisor for Indian charity, Slamoutloud. He is a member of the Bath Society of Artists.

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Photography by Peter Stone