EXTRATEMPORAL
Robert Thomas James Mills
CCA: Intermedia Gallery
Installation view, EXTRATEMPORAL, Robert Thomas James Mills, Intermedia Gallery, 2025
EXTRATEMPORAL
Robert Thomas James Mills
03.05 – 24.05.2025
Intermedia Gallery
Who has the time to have the time of their lives?
Through a constellation of drawings, sound and text, Robert explores the personal and the cosmic in his debut solo exhibition. The exhibition is centred around an ongoing monologue where Robert personifies the concept of time as his lover and asks, “How do you breal up with time?”. EXTRATEMPORAL invites you to pause, reflect and reconsider your relationship with time, the universe and one another. The exhibition is an ongoing exploration of being (out-)with (of) time, consciousness and dreams. Through rotating structures, drawing and non-linear sound work the exhibition takes you through space and time. A place where the past, present and the future merge, a place lingering on the moment just before you go to sleep or the second just before waking up from a vivid dream.
Robert Thomas James Mills is an artist, writer and rambler from Glasgow. Robert’s practice often personifies the cosmos as a way to explore aspects of the human condition in relation to the universe. Robert’s practice is interdisciplinary and socially engaged. Working with different community groups across Glasgow, he aims to dismantle barriers around experiencing contemporary art. By starting with seemingly ordinary situations, Robert’s work aims to transport audiences to new planes of existence through an interdisciplinary practice. The work will span time frames of the deep past and the hypothetical future with some projects having explored notions of ancient Scottish miracles, inter-dimensional octopuses and a walk which ended on Mars.
Photo credit: Alasdair Watson