Sally Robinson b. 1952 England, UK

  • Artist (Printmaker), (Painter)
Painter and printer, since 1999 Sally Robinson has been creating portraits and her work has been exhibited in all the major exhibitions including the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach and The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Robinson's work is held in a number of major national and state collections including the National Gallery of Australia.
Name
Sally Robinson
Birth date
1952
Birth place
England, UK
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
Arrival
  • 1960
Active Period
  • 1974-
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1970- 1973 National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Is Indigenous
No

For the first 20 years of her artistic career, Sally Robinson produced screen prints of Australian life and landscapes using photostencils to create a mechanical texture that echoes the pixellated way we view the world through print and electronic media. These iconic images of Bondi Beach, Ayers Rock and Kakadu were followed by a series of prints depicting the Antarctic after Robinson received an Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Program Award in 1991/1992.
In 1999 Robinson began painting portaits, using stencils to again create a mechanically regular texture to pixellate her image. Since that time her portraits have been regularly included in portrait competition exhibitions such as the Archibald Prize, the Salon des Refuses, the Portia Geach Portrait Award, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. Concurrently, Sally Robinson has painted colour field abstract paintings – riots of colour in stencilled lines, dots or dashes that create a spacial illusion.

Since 1976 Robinson has held a number of solo exhibitions around Australia at venues including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Penrith Regional Gallery in Emu Plains, NSW. She has also participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. These include: the 11th International Print Biennial, Tokyo, Japan (1979); 'Survey 12 – On Paper’ at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (1980); the14th International Biennial of Graphic Art in Yugoslavia (1981); 'Australian Art of the '70s’ at Queensland Art Gallery (1986); 'Prints and Australia: Pre-settlement to Present’ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (1989); and 'Portrait Artists Australia Exhibition’, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA (2005).

Robinson’s work is held in most of the major state and national collections.

Writers:
Robinson, Sally
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Portrait Artists Australia
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2007
Exhibition (exhibited at)
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
IMAGinING Antarctica
2007
Exhibition (exhibited at)
John Curtin University Gallery, Perth, WA
[solo exhibition]
2007
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Portia Geach Portrait Award Exhibition
2007
Exhibition (exhibited at)
SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
ALSO: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004,
Archibald Salon des Refuses
2004
Exhibition (exhibited at)
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
ALSO: 2000, 2001
Masters of Fare
2004
Exhibition (exhibited at)
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Federation - Australian Art & Society 1901-2001
2001
Exhibition (exhibited at)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Archibald Prize Exhibition
2001
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
ALSO: 1999
International Print Triennial Krakow 97
1997- 1999
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Touring exhibition: Krakow, Poland; Slovakia; Germany; Brazil
Harbour Hymns/City Songs
13 January 1990- 11 March 1990
Exhibition ()
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
[solo exhibition]
1982
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, NSW
Perspecta
1981
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Contemporary Australian Printmakers
1979- 1984
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Print Council of Australia touring exhibition: USA, Canada, UK
11th International Print Biennial
1979
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Tokyo, Japan
[solo exhibition]
1979
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
ALSO: 1981, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1993, 2004
Link Exhibition
1976
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Solo exhibition
[solo exhibition]
1976
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Recognitions
Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Program Award - Artist
1991
Award
Between 1991 and 1992. Travelled to Mawson, Davis and Heard Island Research Stations