Robert Priseman (born in Spondon, Derbyshire in 1965)[1][2] is a British artist, collector, writer, curator and publisher who lives and works in Essex, England.

While there he started painting portraits in oils, with sitters including the Dalai Lama, Phil Collins, Jeremy Paxman and Cardinal Basil Hume.

[5] In 2004 he gave up portrait painting [5] and embarked on thematic series of works aimed to engage the viewer in dialogue on provocative psychological and socio-political issues.

Such works include The Hospital Paintings,[6] Subterraneans, The Francis Bacon Interiors,[7] No Human Way to Kill, The Troubles and Nazi Gas Chambers.

[9] In 2013 he donated a collection of twenty paintings by contemporary British artists, known as 'The Robert Priseman Gift', to the Falmouth Art Gallery, England.

[10] Robert Priseman and Simon Carter established 'East Contemporary Art: A collection of 21st Century Practice' at University Campus Suffolk, England.

[18] As well as emerging artists, the collection contains works by artists of national significance including: Tracey Emin, Matthew Krishanu, Mary Webb, Peter Blake, Susan Gunn, Graham Sutherland, Nicholas Middleton, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Simon Burton, Alex Hanna, Alan Davie, Pen Dalton, Susie Hamilton, Julie Umerle, Simon Carter, Judith Tucker, Marguerite Horner, Claudia Böse, Stephen Newton, Alison Pilkington, James Quin, Nathan Eastwood, Paula MacArthur, Greg Rook, Annabel Dover and David Hockney.

[1] 'The Francis Bacon Interiors' formed part of 'The Subconscious Revealed', an exhibition curated by Priseman at Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2009.

[7] In 2007 Priseman began work on the No Human Way to Kill series of paintings which present the five different methods of execution used in the USA (Hanging, Firing Squad, Gassing, Lethal Injection and Electrocution),[19] alongside the paintings, twelve etchings look at other methods of state sanctioned execution used around the world.

[21] The original paintings and drawings are held at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA [22] with a set of twelve etchings at the V&A, London.

[3] Following on from 'No Human Way to Kill' Priseman produced the 'Gas Chambers' series which were first exhibited at The Minories Galleries, Colchester, UK.

[23] The project has three parts and focuses on the developmental steps taken in Nazi Germany that began with the gassing of the mentally ill and ended in genocide.

The first part comprises portraits of the participants of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, the second part comprises six pencil drawings which are designed to look like hand coloured postcards and show the outsides of the hospitals in Germany and Austria where the T4 Euthanasia programme took place between 1939 and 1941.

[31] Priseman purchased one hundred damaged religious icons from eBay and over-painted each with a 20th-century celebrity who died prematurely from suicide or as a result of a self-destructive lifestyle.

[35] 2017- Fame, The University of Arizona, Museum of Art, USA[36] 2016 - Never Knowing Why, Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK [37] 2015 - Outlaws, SE9 Container Gallery, London[38] 2014 - Fame, The Crypt, St. Marylebone Parish Church, London 2014 - Fame, Whitebox Art Center, New York[34] 2013 - Fame, Art Exchange, Colchester, England[32] 2012 - Nazi Gas Chambers: From Memory to History, Arch 402, London[26] 2011 - No Human Way to Kill, Part II, Whitebox Art Center, New York[21] 2010 - Gas Chambers, CoCA, New Zealand[25] 2010 - No Human Way to Kill, WhiteBox Art Center, New York[20] 2009 - Gas Chambers, The Minories Galleries, Colchester, England[23] 2009 - American Execution, The University of Essex, Colchester, England[39] 2009 - No Human Way to Kill, European Commission 12 Star Gallery, London[40] 2009 - The Francis Bacon Interiors, Huddersfield Art Gallery, England[7] 2008 - American Execution, Dazed Gallery, London[19] Priseman, R, (2017) Contemporary Masters From Britain, Colchester, Seabrook Press, ISBN 978-1543281620 Priseman, R, (2015) Priseman Seabrook collection of 21st Century British Painting Catalogue 2015.