Robert Richardson began as a poet, concrete poet, and small press publisher. An interest in typography led to a degree in Communication Design at a London polytechnic. Following a teacher training course, he worked as a lecturer in the further education sector. During this time, he completed a Master’s degree in Education, and subsequently became a Principal Lecturer in Communication at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. Since retiring from teaching, he has been a full-time artist and writer.

In the 1990s, while working as a lecturer in higher education, he artistically concentrated on text-based art and installations, exhibiting work at visual arts festivals in Liverpool and culminating in a solo exhibition at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery.

In the first decade of this century, he worked mainly in photography and had a number of solo exhibitions, including in 2014 at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and in 2018 at Museu Municipal, Faro, Portugal.

In 2014, he returned to text art/concrete poetry to prepare digital realisations of both earlier work and new work for a solo exhibition at the gallery of Eugen Gomringer (known as the “father of concrete poetry”) in Rehau, Germany.

Since 2014, he has been working with digital art, producing an ongoing portfolio of abstract artworks, with some produced as limited edition prints and others as NFTs. He has also been producing abstract animations, this has led to exhibiting work on screens in central Paris, subway stations in São Paulo, and on one of the screens at Times Square, New York. His text-art is in many collections, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery of Australia.