Richard Skelton is a British artist, writer and composer. His work often evolves from sustained immersion in specific environments and wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, archaeology and geology, folklore and myth.
Between 2005 and 2011 he ran Sustain-Release, a private press dedicated to publishing his own landscape-oriented recordings and art editions. Since 2009 he has been co-director of the multi-media publishing house Corbel Stone Press, with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson. Between 2013 and 2022 they curated the influential journal of eco-poetics and esoteric literature, Reliquiae. He is also founding member of the Notional Research Group for Cultural Artefacts, and director of the Centre for Alterity Studies.
Richard holds a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Place Writing. His doctoral research examines the relationships between humans and non-humans in Late-Upper Palaeolithic Britain. He is particularly keen to work collaboratively with researchers in other disciplines, especially archaeology, anthropology and geology.
This website gathers a thematic selection of Richard’s work from 2005 to the present.