His most recent award was presented to him by Tracey Emin at the ICA, where he was celebrated and commended as a finalist for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards for Poetry, 2019. His prose chapbook and sound art piece, a short story, Skrubolz Garbillkore, was commissioned by Maria Fusco as part of her Dialecty Project, funded by the University of Edinburgh, The Elephant Trust and the Leverhulme Trust and published by Book Works in 2018, a year in which Robert received a second Arts Council of Northern Ireland Literature Award. He has been writer and audio-visual artist-in-residence at Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery, and The Curfew Tower, in association with Bill Drummond and the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast. an encouraging, attention grabbing debut…’ Jeremy Noel Tod, poetry critic at The Sunday Times, chose it as one of his best poetry books of 2015. His debut book Pangs! was published by Test Centre in 2015, receiving critical acclaim, with the Irish Times poetry critic, John McAuliffe, calling it ‘. Robert has presented his work on poetry, film and video art, nationally and internationally, at art institutions, events, galleries and festivals, including The Dublin International Literature Festival, Phonica at Smock Alley Theatre, Poetry London at King’s Place, The Austrian Cultural Forum and the Goethe Institute, the Belfast Film Festival, the Fastnet Short Film Festival, Artist Moving Image Northern Ireland Showcase, Platform Arts, in association with LUX, as well as performing on RTE’s Arena, and at Douglas Gordon’s gallery, The Common Guild, Glasgow.
Robert also studied at the now defunct, Filmbase, Dublin, where he directed his first short, Hidden Talents, a micro-budget, mini-homage to Jacques Rivette’s, Céline et Julie vont en bateau. At Liverpool University School of the Arts, he was awarded the John Lennon Memorial Scholarship by Yoko Ono, a Department of English Studentship, the Price Memorial Scholarship for Teaching and the Miriam Allot Poetry Prize.
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