Weaponized

Born in 1985, in Hastings, UK. Lives and works in Hastings and London, UK. 

Richard Webb completed his degree in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007, followed by an MA in Fine Art at The University of Brighton. Over the past three years, Webb has exhibited in London galleries such as The Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Agency Gallery and NO:ID as well as in other more diverse spaces such as a semi-abandoned shopping centre and disused multi-storey car park on the South Coast, Benjamin Franklin House in London, a converted shipping wharf in Amsterdam, and London’s Old Abattoir. Webb has also completed a period as Assistant Curator at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. 

“My work revolves around notions of culture and how it is shaped; encompassing the cross pollinating ideas of hierarchy, identity, the media, the art world, power, morality, religion, politics, history and commerce. 

I am exploring the monolithic structures underpinning our daily lives in various forms, doing so without a political or ideological agenda per se, more simply a conscious desire to ask open-ended questions, with a view to rendering these mysterious forces more visible.”

Books

Forum 
Richard Webb presents a spectral image of our culture and collective psyche via the reflective portal of an internet football forum. Documenting the exchanges between visitors of the site in 2002, this chronological record of a publicly anonymous debate on a sports website explores ideas of moral panic, vigilantism, moral projection and vendetta. 

Webb’s objective role in simply compiling and re-presenting the correspondence instigates debate on the value and status of ideas one may not agree with, whilst serving to mirror cultural discourse surrounding emotive subjects. 


Artists Sites 
rawebb.com
rawebb.tumblr.com