Over the years I have interviewed and profiled many well known designers and artists who work with tiles. None bear comparison to Robert Dawson when it comes to real depth of artistic understanding of tile, or originality when subverting what is generally perceived as “art” or “design”.

Dawson, who works under the pseudonym of Aesthetic Sabotage, produces striking and compelling works using ceramic tile that play with our perception of pattern and texture, while at the same time providing an immediacy and relevance that is rare in the world of fine art.