Robin Megannity is a Manchester-based artist whose paintings and videos operate in the unstable leak-zone between memory, truth, and fiction, where images behave less as records than as contagions. His layered oil paintings emerge from shadowy feedback loops between the tactile and the virtual, where lived fragments are sampled, reprocessed, and spliced into synthetic reconstructions, provisional architectures, and acts of staging. Painting becomes a site of mimicry and signal-noise, absorbing the solemnity and muted strangeness of its own histories while remaining both archaic and anticipatory, suspended between psychological interior and speculative future.
Inflected with melancholy and estrangement, his practice tracks the collapse of privacy into performance and the diffusion of subjectivity across social, personal, and digital terrains. Motifs mutate through repetition and misalignment, circulating without origin or closure. Meaning does not settle; it disperses — indistinct, clinical, and unstable — becoming vaporous and contagious, the afterimage of an idea rather than its source. Painting is approached as a mutable environment in which the mundane collapses into the symbolic, technological detachment folds into affect, and the banal is recoded as poetic residue: charged, unstable, unresolved.
He holds an MA in Painting from Manchester School of Art (2021) and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (2007). His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with selected exhibitions including Pictures of You (Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2025), Eating the Middle (Galeria Fran Reus, Mallorca, 2024), Gentle Again (The Shop House Gallery, Hong Kong, 2024), Call of the Void (Workplace, London, 2023), Perfect Passive (Xxijra Hii, London, 2023), and In Crystallized Time (Museum Of Museums, Seattle, 2021).