Kevin Robertson Osborne Park Jazz 2010 Oil on linen 56 x 56 cm The Poet s Shooter : Observations of Architecture and Music Paintings, Drawings and Video GALERIE DÜSSELDORF Galerie Düsseldorf 9 Glyde Street Mosman Park Western Australia WA 6012 tel/ fax 08 93840890 Gallery hours : Wednesday - Friday 11-5 Sunday 2-5 and by appointment Closed public holidays email : gd@galeriedusseldorf.com.au Website : www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au Directors : Magda + Douglas Sheerer 22 August - 19 September 2010 GALERIE DÜSSELDORF
NOTES : Kevin Robertson and Stewart MacFarlane Painting on site Central Park Building Upper level CBD Perth 2010 Night & Day photos by Stewart MacFarlane 2010
Kevin Robertson : The Poet s Shooter : Observations of Architecture and Music Paintings, Drawings and Video Galerie Düsseldorf 22 Aug - 19 Sept 2010 Catalogue of works 1 Night View, Central Park, Perth 2010 106 x 91.5 cm $ 4,000 10 Herdsman Lake Bridge 2010 37.5 x 58 cm SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1995 Stringer, John Artists in Residence, Sandpiper Press 1995 Murray, Sandra Oddfellows, Exhibition catalogue, The University of Western Australia 1996 Snell, Ted Not so odd, Art Monthly, September, Number 92 1998 Jelbart, Mary Lou A Taste in Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Sotheby s, Melbourne 2002 Gallery, Art and Australia Volume 39 Number 4, pg. 604. Snell, Ted Enduring metaphor of change, The Australian, Friday October 29, pg.14 2005 mix tape catalogue, The Art Galley of Western Australia ISNB 09758098 1 4, 2007, 2008 Who s Who, State Edition, Western Australia 2008 Cook, Robert, Who plays music: six interviews, Broadsheet 37-3 2009 Quin, Sally A Partial View: The University of Western Australia Art Collection, p.107, ISBN: 978 1 876793 18 0 2009 Bromfield, David Waves: The Edith Cowan University Art Collection, pp159-160, ISBN 978-0-7298-0673-2 2 Osborne Park Jazz Oil on Linen 56 x 56 cm $ 2,200 3 Tower - Yokine 2010 40.5 x 40.5 cm $ 1,800 4 St. Georges Tce - Night 2010 30.5 x 30.5 cm $ 1,200 5 St. Georges Tce 2010 Oil on Linen 30.5 x 30.5 cm $ 1,200 6 City West, Perth 2010 25.2 x 20.5 cm $ 600 7 View from Central Park, Perth 2010 25.2 x 20.5 cm $ 600 8 Post Office Building, Leederville 2010 39 x 56 cm 9 Office Towers, Circular Quay 2010 57 x 38 cm 11 MCA, Circular Quay 2010 54 x 38 cm 12 Osborne Park Office 2010 Charcoal and pastel on Arches cotton rag Paper 56.5 x 38 cm 13-20 WAVES A2D 2010 (framed works) 13 WXYZ 14 Chord Keyboard 15 Inserting Cassette 16 Sequencer 17 Secret Drawing 18 Cracking the Valve 19 Oscillator Solo 20 Cassette Unwound WAVES A2D 2010 56 original drawings Pencil + graphite on Arches cotton rag Paper 14 x 28.6 cm Each $ 850 framed as per exhibition examples 21 Facsimile book WAVES A2D 2010 + DVD is available in a limited edition of 10 Laser printed on Arches cotton rag Paper 56 pages Stitch bound with hard cover Titled, numbered, dated and signed by the artist An online low resolution rendition of the book WAVES A2D is available for viewing at this web page link : http://www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au/gdartists/ Robertson/KRExh2010/KR_Waves2010Book/album/ index.html Flash is required to view this video. 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Curatorial Projects 1989-1991 Annual art exhibitions: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1993,1994 Bondi Pavilion Art Awards, Sydney NSW 1999 Architectonic, Architecture as Metaphor in Art, Cullity Gallery, University of WA 2005-2007 Configured: Aspects of contemporary Western Australian figurative art toured throughout Western Australia (including the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth) by Art on the Move 2009 Fragments From the Future: Aspects of Modernism in the Kerry Stokes Collection The Mining Hall of Fame Kalgoorlie Published Essays and Writings 1999 Architectonic, Architecture as Metaphor in Art, School of Architecture and Fine Art, University of WA 2001 An earthbound rocket, The Architect, Winter 01, The Cambridge Group, pp14-15, ISSN 1037 3460 2005 Figure in a studio (Seated nude) by Fred Cress, acquisitions + discourse, Friends of the Art Gallery of WA, QDi Direct Press 2005 Configured: Aspects of contemporary Western Australian figurative art Art on the Move, ISBN 09581959 99 2009 Fragments from the Future: Aspects of Modernism from the Kerry Stokes Collection published by Australian Capital Equity, ISBN 978-0-9577906-3-6 Art Gallery Work History 1988 Collection Assistant, Curtin University Art Collection 1989-1991 Art Curator, Sir Charles Gairdener Hospital Art Collection 1993-1994 Senior Attendant, The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 1999-2001 Installation Manager, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA 2001 Acting Project Manager, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA 2010 Curatorial Assistant, Kerry Stokes Art Collection Teaching 1988 Painting Lecturer (part-time) School of Fine Art, Curtin University 1995-1996 Drawing Lecturer, School of Design, Curtin University 2003- Painting Lecturer (part-time) School of Fine Art, Curtin University 2007 Studio Assistant (part-time) School of Architecture, The University of WAA 2010 Tutoring in Art History (casual), Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, The University of WA Research Work Worked as a research assistant for Ted Snell on the following publications: 1988 The Artists Rottnest. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN 0 949206 34 2 1990 Darlington and the Hills, Curtin University of Technology, ISBN 1 86342 105 X 1991 1991 Cinderella on the Beach: A Source Book of Western Australia s Visual Culture. University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 1875560041 1992 Salvatore Zofrea: Images from The Psalms, Craftsman House Press, Sydney, ISBN 976 8097 23 X Basel & Sydney, ISBN 976 8097 40 X 1995 Howard Taylor - Forest Figure. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, ISBN 1 86368 116
Kevin Robertson : Biography 4 Education 1982-84 BA Fine Art (Painting) - Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) 1991 Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts Studies- College of Fine Arts, University of NSW 1992 Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1987 Australia-England-Italy - A Painted Travelogue (with Megan Salmon) Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 1990 New Paintings, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 1992 Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 1997 Recent Paintings, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 2001 New York Studies, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 2003 Cloud Paintings 2002/2003, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 2009 Paintings - 2009, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 2010 The Poet s Shooter : Observations of Architecture and Music, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1984 Destination China, Nexus Galleries, Fremantle and Quang Dong Academy of Fine Art, China 1989 Heidelberg and Heritage, Two Visions of Australia - One Hundred Years Apart. Linden Gallery, Melbourne 1990 Hung, Drawn and Quartered. Fremantle Arts Centre 1994 Presence: Explorations of Character, Fremantle Art Centre. 1996 Out of Australia, PICA, WA 1996 Oddfellows, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Touring 9 National Venues 1997 Guitar Shaped World, Tamworth City Gallery 1997 A Face in the Crowd. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 1998 ACAF6, Australian Contemporary Art Fair Melbourne, Victoria. (Represented by Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth) Field of vision: New York, the lab gallery, New York Clouded Over, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA, WA 2005 Configured, Geralton Regional Art Gallery 2005 City of Perth Art Award, PICA, WA Mix tape, The Art Gallery of Western Australia Figuration in the West Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth Configured IASKA Kellerberrin Melbourne Art Fair, represented by Galerie Dusseldorf 2007 City of Perth Art Award, Perth Town Hall 2008 Linden 1968, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, St. Kilda, Melbourne 2009 Small is the new big, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2010 Group Show, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney AWARDS 1988 1989 1999 1 5 2 6 Sir Charles Gairdner Art Prize (jointly) Guy Grey-Smith Memorial Travelling Grant Albany Art Award Vincent Awards COLLECTIONS Curtin University of Technology, Artbank, Wesfarmers, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Kerry Stokes Collection, Bankwest, Royal Perth Hospital, Town of Vincent Art Collection Edith Cowan University, New Norcia Art Gallery University of Western Australia, Australian National Museum, Murdoch University 3 7
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