Russ Sargeant

Russ Sargeant is an artist, musician, and graphic designer originally from Wolverhampton and now based in Dudley. After graduating in Visual Communication from Wolverhampton in 1990, he built a career in design across multiple sectors before returning to his own creative practice in recent years. Influenced by 20th-century movements such as analytical cubism and abstract expressionism, his work seeks to explore themes of curiosity, our inner world (emotions, faith, uncertainty) and the defining experiences that shape us. Starting without a fixed plan, Russ likens his process to archaeology —digging through layers, using markmaking and gestures to uncover meaning. In so doing, he uses process as a way of investigation rather than illustration and approaches making as an act of discovery, allowing material, form, and intuition to guide unexpected connections and outcomes.