Robyn Backen b. 1957

  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Designer (Jewellery Designer)
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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associate of
Mr Ian Hobbs
1957
Artist (Photographer), Designer (New Media Artist), Artist (Video Artist)
associate of
Peter Tonkin
1957
Artist (Installation Artist), Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)

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References [<ExternalResource: Vernon, Christopher (September-October 2005), "100 Forests/100 Gardens", Architecture Australia.>, <ExternalResource: (2001), 'Intersections of Art and Science', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, NSW, exhibition catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Holder, Jo (1995), 'Casula Powerhouse Regional Art Centre', Art and Australia, Art and Australia, Spring 1995.>, <ExternalResource: Couacaud, Sally, 'Public Art in Sydney', Artlink, vol 14 no 3 Spring 1994.>, <ExternalResource: Cater, Melissa, ''Contemporary History in the Making', Artlink', Artlink, vol. 14 no 3 Spring 1994.>, <ExternalResource: Millner, Jacqueline (10 April 1998), 'Art Sensor', RealTime, p. 41, .>, <ExternalResource: Backen, Robyn (1999), 'Artist Choice: The Holy Face', Art & Australia, p. 348, vol. 36,.>, <ExternalResource: Best, Susan (September/October 2000), 'Public Art in the Olympic City', Architecture Australia, pp. 81 - 85.>, <ExternalResource: Brassil, Joan, 'Robyn Backen: The Archaeology of Bathing', Art & Australia, pp. 72 - 73, Vol. 38, Spring, 2000.>, <ExternalResource: Macgowan, Tempe (Oct/Nov 2000), 'The Art of the Airport', Monument, No. 38, pp. 104 - 107.>, <ExternalResource: Skinner, Peter, 'Funk & Functionality', Architecture Australia, pp. 60 - 63, Vol. 90, No. 1, January/ February.>, <ExternalResource: Chan, Kitty (2009), 'Interview with the artist'.>, <ExternalResource: Couacaud, Sally (2004), '2003 Echigo-Tsumari Triennial', Art & Australia, Vol. 41 No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 535 - 537.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10383 Earrings (pair), Bakelite/ rubber/ steel/ wire, Robyn Backen, Australia, 1984', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>] [<ExternalResource: Vernon, Christopher (September-October 2005), "100 Forests/100 Gardens", Architecture Australia.>, <ExternalResource: (2001), 'Intersections of Art and Science', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, NSW, exhibition catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Holder, Jo (1995), 'Casula Powerhouse Regional Art Centre', Art and Australia, Art and Australia, Spring 1995.>, <ExternalResource: Couacaud, Sally, 'Public Art in Sydney', Artlink, vol 14 no 3 Spring 1994.>, <ExternalResource: Cater, Melissa, ''Contemporary History in the Making', Artlink', Artlink, vol. 14 no 3 Spring 1994.>, <ExternalResource: Millner, Jacqueline (10 April 1998), 'Art Sensor', RealTime, p. 41, .>, <ExternalResource: Backen, Robyn (1999), 'Artist Choice: The Holy Face', Art & Australia, p. 348, vol. 36,.>, <ExternalResource: Best, Susan (September/October 2000), 'Public Art in the Olympic City', Architecture Australia, pp. 81 - 85.>, <ExternalResource: Brassil, Joan, 'Robyn Backen: The Archaeology of Bathing', Art & Australia, pp. 72 - 73, Vol. 38, Spring, 2000.>, <ExternalResource: Macgowan, Tempe (Oct/Nov 2000), 'The Art of the Airport', Monument, No. 38, pp. 104 - 107.>, <ExternalResource: Skinner, Peter, 'Funk & Functionality', Architecture Australia, pp. 60 - 63, Vol. 90, No. 1, January/ February.>, <ExternalResource: Saines, Deborah Durie (1993), 'Interview with the artist', Unknown.>, <ExternalResource: Couacaud, Sally (2004), '2003 Echigo-Tsumari Triennial', Art & Australia, Vol. 41 No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 535 - 537.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10383 Earrings (pair), Bakelite/ rubber/ steel/ wire, Robyn Backen, Australia, 1984', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>]