Woolston is a visual artist who works across installation, photography, moving image and print. Often working in non-gallery spaces, across community settings and within archives or sites of listed significance.

Her practice generates frameworks for discursive reflection; focussing upon developing structures for ecological and emotional recovery via public realm interventions, socially engaged practice and site-specific responses.

'Robyn often examines issues that others shy away from, from difficult emotions to consumer waste. In so doing, she seeks to make visible that which is forgotten, left behind and discarded.' 

Ann Bukantas, Hon Curator, Walker Art Gallery, former Head of Fine Art, National Museums Liverpool.

Previous installations have included 132,000 plastic knives and forks, 7500 ice-cream containers, 45,000 carrier bags, a selection of trees from Ash to Silver Birch as well as a reproduction Las Vegas sign.

Previous locations have included Fort George, National Trust Acorn Bank, National Trust Penrhyn Castle, Edge Hill railway station, Hull railway station, the Walker Art Gallery, Holst Birthplace Museum, Edge Hill University, an empty shop unit in Blackburn town centre and a grove of trees on Ullswater in the Lake District (UK).

In 2022 she presented a solo show at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts that embodied the culmination of three years of research and collaboration between the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, the TCU (Texas Christian University) department of Psychology and Fort Worth Contemporary Arts.

'Robyn is a consummate professional delivering highly creative and original work. She is always looking to develop her practice, learn new skills and find new paths. Her work with communities is exemplary, enabling engagement, providing inspiration and facilitating creativity. She creates an atmosphere that enables individuals and groups to create work of which they can be proud. As an artist Robyn has delivered inspired and inspirational commissions. I would recommend Robyn Woolston to deliver challenging and evocative personal work and accessible and empowering community work.'

Jo McGuire. Development Manager Wirral Museums Service Merseyside

She will represent Scotland, during 2024, in Gdańsk, Poland as part of ‘Turning The Tide’ > An international residency programme funded by the European Union in collaboration with Intercult (Sweden), Urban Culture Institute (Poland), the Vienna Education Academy, Artit, Dear Hunter (Netherlands) & Fablevision (Glasgow).

Her work is held within public and private collections, as well as reference libraries (including the British Library).