Rick Cresswell is a regularly commissioned artist specialising in work surrounding the body or involving interactive installation. Using traditional and digital and time-based mark making.
Rick gained a 1st class BA Hon in Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and Design, a Saint Martin’s Master’s degree in Independent Film and Video and a three year multi-disciplinary Masters degree in Theology with Aesthetics and Philosophy at the University of Exeter.
Intellectual Influences: René Descartes, Emmanuel Kant, Jurgen Mültman, Thomas Aquinas and various Ancient Semitic philosophies.
Creative Influences: Andrey Tarkovsky, Bill Viola, Antony Gorman, Frances Bacon and Gunter von Hagen.
Current Exhibitions: RILD, Exeter Healthcare Arts at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and The University of Exeter.