Editing Robert Lenkiewicz (section)

==Move to Plymouth==
He spent a year living in a remote cottage near [[Lanreath]] in Cornwall, supporting his young family by teaching, before being offered studio space on the Barbican in [[Plymouth]] by local artist and businessman John Nash. The artist's home and studios once more became a magnet for vagrants and street alcoholics, who then sat for paintings. Their numbers swelled and Lenkiewicz was forced to commandeer derelict warehouses in the city to house the 'dossers'. One of these warehouses also served as a studio and in 1973 became the exhibition space for the Vagrancy Project.

He first came to public attention when the media highlighted his giant mural on Plymouth's Barbican in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertlenkiewicz.org/content/barbican-mural|title=Barbican Mural &#124; Robert Lenkiewicz &#124; Paintings and Original Works|website=www.robertlenkiewicz.org}}</ref> Another furore occurred in 1981 when he faked his own death in preparation for the forthcoming project on the theme of Death (1982): "I could not know what it was like to be dead," said the artist, "but I could discover what it was like to be ''thought'' dead."<ref name=Independent/>