Richard Skelton - Eschatology

14th November 2025 - 14th March, 2026
Collages. Prices in-store or on request.
FINISSAGE, 14 MARCH, 16 - 21h

A series of collages reflecting the desolation wrought by Storm Éowyn in January of 2025. Many of the text fragments come from a single volume: atheological treatise on the Revelation of St. John the Divine. The book itself was found in a disused book repository on a lonely country lane in Northern Ireland. Its discovery seemed like more than chance, as Richard and his wife Autumn had evacuated to the area following the widespread power cuts and water shortages that followed in the wake of the storm. As J.G. Ballard once wrote, ‘deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences’.

Richard Skelton is a British artist, writer and composer. His work often evolves from sustained immersion in specific environments and wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, archaeology and geology, folklore and myth.

Between 2005 and 2011 he ran Sustain-Release, a private press dedicated to publishing his own landscape-oriented recordings and art editions. He is particularly known for his unique use of stringed instruments, many of which were highly modified in order to broaden their timbral and tonal range.

Since 2009, alongside his work as a musician, he has been co-director of the publishing house Corbel Stone Press, with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson. Between 2013 and 2022 they curated the influential journal of eco-poetics and esoteric literature, Reliquiae. He is also founding member of the Notional Research Group for Cultural Artefacts, and director of the Centre for Alterity Studies.

Alongside his soundworks, Richard has produced short films, collages, prints, artefacts and texts for a range of commissioning bodies, and this work has been exhibited widely, including at The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Ireland), the Hatton Gallery (UK), Abbot Hall Art Gallery (UK), and Bergen Kunsthall (Norway). He has also given talks and workshops, and, more recently, he has led a course in experimental archival poetics at the Poetry School (UK).

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