Robyn Backen b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist who works with ideas from science, communications technology and philosophy to make art installations that focus as much on formal and poetic elements as they do on the way the objects make use of space in which they are placed.
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exhibited at
It's Me...I'm Here...Where're You
Date
2007
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Break in Play
Date
2006 - 2007
Place
Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

url: collaboration with Terry Hayse and Harry Barnett

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Vinculum
Date
2005
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

http://robynbacken.com/pages/2005-vinculum.php

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
SSO
Date
2001
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Littoral & Scales of the Sole
Date
1998
Place
IMA, Brisbane, QLD
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Littoral
Date
1998
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Scales of the Sole
Date
1997
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council
Date
13 March 1995 - 7 April 1995
Place
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Verge In Rain...A Translation
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Presage
Date
1995
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Verge In Rain
Date
1994
Place
Kunsthaus Rhenania Gallery, Cologne
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Pronto
Date
1993
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

url: Compounded Garden Installation

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sprung
Date
1990
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Seeing Double
Date
1986
Place
First Draft Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

collaboration with Chris Fortescue

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Second Generation
Date
1986
Place
Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Coming Through
Date
1983
Place
Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Coming Through
Date
1982
Place
Gallery Mattar, Cologne
Description

Performance and Video

Type
Exhibition

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Trainings
  • Diploma of Visual Arts, 1977 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Bachelor of Visual Arts, 1983 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Master of Art History & Theory, 2003 College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
  • Postgraduate studies, - Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Diploma of Visual Arts, 1977 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Bachelor of Visual Arts, 1983 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Master of Art History & Theory, 2003 College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
  • Postgraduate studies, -