Lee Whiteman
Art foundation and HND Sculpture and sculpture restoration.
Lee has been creating art works in the public realm from the mid 1980’s onward and has been working professionally as a designer/maker for the last 15 years.
He works Freelance as a prop maker, set designer and artist within the film and TV industry and has produced original artworks for TV commercials, music promos as well as major motion pictures. His latest work has been for the DC comics and Warner Brothers production Pennyworth. Where Lee is required to produce original artworks both 2 and 3 dimensional for use in the sets and locations of the production.
The majority of Lee’s career as an artist has been focussed on the Robots art collective. but he has also showed work as a solo artist in a number of exhibitions and has curated a number of public art workshops. Lee has also hosted a number of public art presentations and talks, including being invited back to his college, Carmarthen school of Art, in 2018 to give a talk about his work
Jen Patterson
Jen is an experienced Project and Production Manager with over 15 years experience of managing projects of all shapes and sizes. Working in the fields of public art, music videos, theatre, TV and live events she has produced and managed budgets of up to £1.6million and crew and contractors of up to 200 people at a time. Jen was Head of Set Build for Secret Cinema’s Guardians of the Galaxy in 2022.
Lee and Jen have worked together under the name ‘Robots Art Collective’ since the summer of 2009, the core team consists of two full time artists and the collective encompasses a wider skilled team. Consistently working over the past three years, Robots have produced public art projects internationally and across the UK, including New York, Ecuador, Iceland, Croatia, Belfast and London.
All of the sculptures are site specific, achieving a unified aesthetic through the implementation of algorithmic, creative processes and techniques. It is at once a highly localised site-specific intervention, but also part of an internationally recognised body of work, appearing on art blogs, online magazines and print publications including the New York Times, The Guardian, Rooms Magazine, Clash Magazine, Creative Review and Dazed & Confused.