Roman Vaughan-Williams
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romansartwork.bsky.social
Roman Vaughan-Williams
@romansartwork.bsky.social
London Based Artist/Curator
Royal Drawing School-Drawing year 2024

I make artworks to map the impasse, trying to escape but failing.

Website: https://romanvaughanwilliams.wordpress.com/recent-work/
Some install shots from our recent exhibition The Tetrapak Show.

Participating artists:

@willpowersmakes
@jackshg
@romans_artwork
@paul_majek
@vitowalker_studio
@myrtle.glanville
@angus.macdonald3
@ikeshavo
@madeleine_wood_
@maj_lisa
@daniel_chrt
@morninkeziah
@isaacjheard
@tomcubitt

Curated by
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Realms of Unreality (contained opposition)

Etching, drypoint, Tetrapak drypoint, and drawing on paper

30 x 25

After the invisible handjob
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The Machine

Artists: @maj_lisa and @romans_artwork

Medium: Tetrapak Drypoint

Size: 22 x 29 cm

This etching made in collaboration with Maj has a combination of both artists imagery welded together into a mangled machinery that does not sleep.
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Water Lilies (fragments of the real -the outside)

Aluminium Etching (Hand finished with drawing)

Ink on paper
October 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A quick walkthrough of @thetetrapakshow @torrianomeetinghouse

The Tetrapak Show brings together alumni of The Drawing Year* around their shared use of Tetra Pak as a ‘plate’ in the printmaking process.

August 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
As part of ‘The Tetrapak Show’ I will be running a drop in workshop on the basics of Tetra Pak printmaking using household utensils. The workshop will run from 2-4pm on Saturday the 16th of August.

Tetra pak printmaking workshop

2-4

16/08/2025
August 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Echelon B

Tetrapak Drypoint printed on paper

25 x 25 cm

Upcoming shows:

Tetra Pak Show @torrianomeetinghouse

By appointment 14th – 29th August 2025
Private View : 13th August 6.00 – 8.30 pm

Torriano Meeting House
99 Torriano Avenue
Kentish Town
NW5 2RX
August 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The centre

Ink on paper

29.7 x 42 cm
July 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Tulips (make me free)

Tetrapak drypoint and ink on paper

This work is part of a series of ongoing experiments combining etching, drypoint and pen drawing.

Upcoming shows:

Tetra Pak Show @torrianomeetinghouse

By appointment 14th – 29th August 2025
Private View : 13th August 6.00 – 8.30 pm

July 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hi I am organising a show with my friend Maj, please see the details below.

We are very pleased to announce our Tetra Pak Show @torrianomeetinghouse

14th – 29th August 2025
Private View : 13th August 6.00 – 8.30 pm

Torriano Meeting House
99 Torriano Avenue
Kentish Town
NW5 2RX

July 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I am excited to announce that I am participating in @drawingpapershow in Liverpool.

Please see further details below.

Drawing (Paper) Show ‘25
Friday 11th July – Thursday 31st July 2025
Open daily 12pm - 4pm

Exhibition Launch: Thursday 10th July 5:30pm – 8:30pm (bar available)
June 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The bug ran across my drawing
June 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Drawings on tickets I made whilst working on the Newcastle Metro system inspired by Philip Guston and witches.
May 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It was great seeing my book: Erotica (after Beardsley). Exhibited with @library_mothership in @offprint_projects at the Tate Modern.

Title: Erotica (After Beardsley)

Medium: Ceramic, ink, Kozo Washi (paper), cloth

Year: 2022

#drawingonwashi
May 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Some studies for the large work “Echelon or The Temptation of Saint Anthony”. Drawings titled as follows:

Pieta (drawing)

Study after Michelangelo’s “The Temptation of Saint Anthony”

Pieta (standing)

Ink on paper
May 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fantasy Creatures drowned in the Flood

Ink on paper

29 x 22

Excessive they couldn’t be contained within the other world.
May 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Beheaded Leviathan

Copper plate drypoint and sugar lift printed on Hannah Muller white

#etching #drypoint
May 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Pieta (drypoint)

13 x 6 cm

Aluminium drypoint printed on paper
May 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Before the Fall

Ink, pigment and blood on found photograph

After seeing boxes of photographs scattered on the black concrete of a Newcastle vac alley I attempted to imagine trying to avert the end from 2004. Playing with the temporal jump of the photographic object beyond the screen.
May 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Study after Philip Guston for ‘Fragments of a Dream Waning’

Monoprint on paper

21 x 14 cm

Some excess prints made for my zine ‘Fragments of a Dream Waning’ experimenting with imagery after Philip Guston.
April 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Gaussian Cage after Guo X after Hercules Seghers

Ink on paper

29 x 22 cm
April 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Fantasy Landscape

Ink and monotype on paper
April 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
David Vs F35

Drypoint on paper
April 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It was super exiting to have lots of interesting discussions last night at the opening of Falling Rhythms an exhibition organised by @043.live at @potassi_k19 gallery.

I was showing my Sublation Martyr (to him in his own infinitude)
April 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I am exited to announce my work is in Falling Rhythms a group show at Potassi K19 Gallery in Barcelona until April the 19th. I would like to thank 043 curatorial collective setting up this exhibition and including me in it.

I am showing the work: Sublation Martyr (to Him in His own Infinitude)
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM