Kevin Robertson

2011-10-09T15:34:00.000-07:00

Herdsman Lake Bridge, 2010
Charcoal on Arches cotton rag paper
37.5 x 58 cm

Guildford Grammar School 11th Annual Art Exhibition

The exhibition will feature an exciting range of mixed media artworks including woodworks, jewellery, glassware, photography, oil paintings, acrylic paintings, and pewter works. Some of the exhibiting artists include Jo Darbyshire, Adam Derums, Cynthia Ellis, Carrie McDowell, Stormie Mills, Audrey Welch, Robin Wells and David Ledger.

The official opening will be held on Thursday 13 October, from 7.00pm-9.00pm and the exhibition will be open to the public from Friday 14 October - Sunday 16 October, between 10.00am-4.00pm.

Midland Junction Arts Centre
276 Great Eastern Hwy, Midland Western Australia
For further information on the exhibition, please contact Gillian MacDonald on (08) 9377 9200 or email: gmacdonald@ggs.wa.edu.au.

2011-09-19T23:05:00.000-07:00

Angel Hair: Contemporary Western Australian Art from the Kerry Stokes Collection

19 September to 7 October

28 works by 17 WA artists explore shared social and cultural issues.

The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, has been collecting Western Australian contemporary art over three decades. Angel Hair focuses on the new wave that began in the early to mid 1990’s and has gained considerable momentum up until the present.

For the most part, the artists in this exhibition explore the shift that occurred from the art being about private experiences to art that deals with essentially shared social and cultural issues. The works in this exhibition trace such experiences and interactions.

It was created recently for the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Gallery drawing on ethereal elements of the Collection in reference to the mysterious substance, Angel Hair, said to emanate from UFOs. What happens when such subversive and impersonal stuff starts falling from the sky right outside your own town?

Gallery Central
12 Aberdeen Street, Perth WA 6000 Australia
Tel: (08) 94271318
email: gallery@central.wa.edu.au

Weekdays 10-4.45 sat 2-4.45

Featuring Christian de Vietri, Christopher Pease, Constantine Nicholas, Galliano Fardin, Harry Hummerston, James Angus, John Toohey, Julie Wilson-Foster, Lucille Martin, Matthew Hunt, Michael Singe, Michele Theunissen, Patrizia Tonello, Rina Franz, Susanna Castleden, Tarryn Gill and Pilar Marta Dupontmber
http://www.gallerycentral.com.au/

2011-08-29T05:35:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait, painting from 2 mirrors
2011
Oil on Canvas
175 x 69 cm

Large Cloud Painting #1,
2002
Oil on Canvas
119 x 345 cm

Staffroom 2011: Curtin University School of Design and Art staff This popular and now annual event is a collaborative exhibition of contemporary works by the lecturers and staff of the School of Design and Art, Curtin University of Technology, showcasing WA’s prominent art educators. 9 September - 18 September 2011

The Moores Building
46 Henry Street, Fremantle
Galleries open 10am – 4pm, 7 days
Moore & Moore Cafe open 8am - 4pm, 7 days

2011-08-05T06:14:00.000-07:00

An evening of Art + Video + Sound
Galerie Düsseldorf @ Surround Sounds - previewing 6-8 pm Thursday 18 August 2011
Venue : Surround Sounds : 83-85 Stirling Hwy, Nedlands WA
RSVP 93840890

2011-07-31T23:39:00.000-07:00

ARTITUDE 2011
Saturday 6 August, Astral Ballroom,
Burswood Entertainment Complex

This is Telethon Speech & Hearing’s premier annual fundraising event which raises much needed funds for children who have speech and language or hearing impairments
http://www.artitude.net.au/exhibition-preview?nggpage=5

2011-03-28T05:16:00.000-07:00

ANGEL HAIR: Contemporary Western Australian Art from the Kerry Stokes Collection

Christian de Vietri | Christopher Pease | Constantine Nicholas | Galliano Fardin | Harry Hummerston | James Angus
John Toohey | Julie Wilson-Foster
Lucille Martin | Matthew Hunt | Michael Singe | Michele Theunissen
Patrizia Tonello | Rina Franz | Susanna Castleden
Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont

Curated by Kevin Robertson

Exhibition dates – Saturday 16 April / Sunday 8 May

For over three decades, The Kerry Stokes Collection has been collecting Western Australian contemporary art. This exhibition focuses on the new wave that began in the early to mid 1990’s and has gained considerable momentum up until the present.

Special event: Stretch Festival Saturday 7th of May and Sunday the 8th

Official opening 6.30pm Friday 15th of April
Exhibition dates – Saturday 16th April / Sunday 8th

Mandurah Performing Arts Centre

Stokes treasures on show at Mandurah
LYN DICIERO, The West Australian April 21, 2011, 9:45 am

"Gems from one of Australia's most significant private collections are making a rare appearance in Mandurah in the lead-up to the city's Stretch Festival next month.

The exhibition, Angel Hair: Contemporary Western Australian Art from the Kerry Stokes Collection, is a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the workings of fine philanthropy, offering a selection of works from the early 1990s until now, reflecting key changes in international art and its permeation through Perth art schools."

"The exhibition explores how artists in Perth embraced international trends, such as the new wave of British art led by artists such as Damien Hirst in the 1990s. It was a time of shift, when artists shed their focus on the personal, replacing it with work exploring social and environmental issues."

"The title Angel Hair refers to folklore describing a temporary cobweb-like substance said to be dispersed by passing UFOs. Like the works in the exhibition, conjuring intrigue from a foreign occurrence, the subtle gossamer of influence spread from afar settled on its subjects, not to disappear, but to give vent to future development.

Highlights include Julie Wilson-Foster's Over the Garden Wall II, 1998, a sculptural centrepiece revealing the surprising pearl lustre of cut, discarded plastic containers. Providing links to the region, Wilson-Foster, now based in the US, studied at Rockingham TAFE. Galliano Fardin, represented by two works in the exhibition, is based at Lake Clifton. Other WA artists represented include James Angus and Christian de Vietri, both now based in New York; the duo Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont, Christopher Pease, Michael Singe and Patrizia Tonello.

The venue is just one of several locations for the Stretch Festival, which features 35 projects and more than 900 artists over the weekend of May 6-8.
Most of the works in Angel Hair were bought during the 15 years the late John Stringer managed the Kerry Stokes Collection."

2010-12-08T00:47:00.000-08:00

“In Kevin Robertson's small sober portraits, even the familiarity of a friend's face is explored as an elusive and perplexing form forever removing itself from our apprehension and inevitability becoming a statement about time.
This rewarding and significant exhibition that affords the viewer the opportunity to engage with the work of mature artists whose dedication and commitment to practice are never in doubt.”

Donal Fitzpatric The West Australian 10.12.2010

Pure Contemplation Without Knowledge 2010
Opens December 8 6-8 pm

A group show involving a range of Perth’s mid career artists. The invitation design reflects each artist’s influences, and their diverse approaches towards making art. The works on display provide an insight into their current practices and acknowledge careers that continue to develop, remaining vital and relevant over a long period of time. This exhibition celebrates their long term commitment to their art with a common link of sustained enthusiasm.

Moira de la Hunty Michael Doherty Richard Gunning
Andre Lipscombe Alan Muller Ron Nyisztor
Connie Petrillo Trevor Richards Kevin Robertson Judy Rodgers
Peter Wales Greg White

Nyisztor Studio
10-5pm, 391 Canning Highway, Melville, enter via Stock Rd

Wed – Fri 1-5pm, Sat, Sun

2010-09-30T23:17:00.000-07:00

The School of Perth - Artist Forum
03 October 2010
Sunday 3 October 4 - 6 pm
The title of this forum, School of Perth, is an umbrella term to describe a varied group of Perth artists who graduated from a number of West Australian art schools in the early 80s, artists who were more than simply concerned with the reproduction of appearances. Their concern for the resemblance of things was motivated by memory and identity. The presenting artists – Tania Ferrier, Richard Gunning, Thomas Hoareau, Kevin Robertson and Megan Salmon – will reflect on the formative period of their emerging practice and elaborate on the salient issues that determined the direction of their art-making in Perth.
$10.00 cost. Free to students.
Registration is essential on 9218 4540.
Holmes à Court Gallery
Level 1, 11 Brown St, East Perth
Western Australia, 6004
PO Box 6847, East Perth
WA 6892
Tel: (+61 8) 9218 4540 Fax: (+61 8) 9218 4545

2010-07-26T04:10:00.001-07:00

Paintings, Drawings and Video
Opening Sunday 22 August 2010
3 - 5pm (gallery open from 2pm)

Exhibition dates 22 August - 19 September 2010
Cover image :
Kevin Robertson “Osborne Park Jazz” 2010 Oil on linen 56 x 56 cm

GALERIE DÜSSELDORF

9 Glyde Street Mosman Park WA 6012 Western Australia t/f +61 8 93840890 Link to GALERIE DÜSSELDORF exhibition
gallery hours : wednesday - friday 11-5 sunday 2-5 and by appointment - closed public holidays

Foray into music, architecture
RIC SPENCER, The West Australian September 10, 2010, 11:00 am
Many of the classical arts have been brought under the inquisitive gaze of painting in three shows around town.
Although all using very different approaches, Jarek Wojcik's Story Lines at Gallery East and Kevin Robertson's The Poet's Shooter at Galerie Dusseldorf both infiltrate music and architecture. Douglas Chambers' Goddesses and Other Themes, also at Galerie Dusseldorf, invokes mythology and its theatrical cohort, the tragedy.
Each of these exhibitions uses narrative but in different ways, showing the variety in which a series of works can be posited.
Wojcik's Story Lines creates an ambiguous narrative by painting, quite beautifully, soft and blurred backgrounds, which are interrupted in the foreground by often whimsical but finely painted renditions of musical instruments, boom gates or in one case a small dog. Like Gillian Warden's work, also exhibiting at Gallery East, the constructed paintings offer a type of pantomime, played out in the theatrical sets of the artist's imagination. For me the work is at its best when it builds an inner urban story based on sight, sound and texture, as if illustrating a chronological series of events discovered on a walk.
The painting technique of Wojcik, which also reminded me of Shaun Tan's work, lends itself to this idea of moments caught and remembered successfully. The pieces Lost in Barcelona, Moon Song, Moments Bienheureux, So Quiet and No Name Station piece together well like this. Less interesting is when an object is forced on us, floating upon an unrelated landscape as in 21 Songs - this is too literal a representation of the visuality of music.
At Galerie Dusseldorf Robertson takes another approach to visualising music in The Poet's Shooter: Observations of Architecture and Music. Constructed around two series of work, which as the title suggests, observe architecture and music, The Poet's Shooter is two different series but the two overlap, as a lyrical approach is taken to the architectural renderings and an architectural approach is taken to the drawings of music.
Robertson's WAVES A2D is a collection of drawings brought together as a long, horizontal book. The pages are turned as a form of low-tech animation in the accompanying DVD, which I enjoyed as a somehow real, or old school, approach to listening and developing an awareness of the world around you. The drawings in this case are of, among other things, geometric forms, a cassette (both in working and tangled order) being inserted into a player and a keyboard. All of this makes sense when you consider that Robertson, who is well known in the visual arts for his cityscapes, is also a member of Diode, an experimental indie live electronics band. In The Poet's Shooter the two worlds overlap, as they do at some of Diode's gigs. Meaningful collaboration between Perth's music and visual arts worlds is gaining momentum through artists like Robertson.
For The Poet's Shooter Robertson also gives us images of urban architectural icons, not those necessarily found in architectural museums but those that become owned by a community, that bring to mind a sense of knowing comfort through their recognition. Drawn and painted as if encountered by accident for the first time, Robertson brings a breath of fresh air to often visually neglected built environments. The artist has also spent time painting nightscapes from the upper level of the Central Park building which, when you view the paintings alongside the music animation makes you wonder just what's going on in the city tonight.
In a slightly less indie way but equally longing for mythology, Chambers' Goddesses and Other Themes searches for inspiration among history's plethora of goddess figures. Chambers' lyrical use of paint continues his works fascination with the motif in the landscape, utilising on this occasion a patterned approach to the female figure in our historical stories.
Like his contemporaries Hockney and Kitaj, Chambers' use of colour and line is not only enjoyable, it is essential in understanding life as a construction of cyclical and reciprocal patterns. The figures, though symbolic, always manifest a personal individuality and temperament. Here Chambers taps well into the different stylist periods of the goddess representation. Equally in Goddesses and Other Themes we see the goddess as our own creation but also as a key narrative figure, not only in developing our understanding of nature and the seasons, but in developing our need for a cathartic ethical role. After all mythological characters bare the brunt of our own failures.
Chambers' sometimes demure, sometimes robust goddesses are skilfully worked and the Fauvist-like use of colour, whether it be forming Aphrodite, Gaia, Eve or Blodeuwedd is at times overwhelming. In this sense Chambers' paintings of goddesses are pleasurable but they also manifest a psychological discomfort that their tales, and their place in our socio-history, usually contain.
Jarek Wojcik, Gallery East, North Fremantle, until September 19. Kevin Robertson and Douglas Chambers, at Galerie Dusseldorf, Mosman Park, until September 19.

2010-05-24T22:24:00.001-07:00

Private view
6 - 8pm Tuesday 1 June

29 May – 23 June 2010

Group Show

Works by Peter Baka, Kevin Robertson, Maryanne Wick and others

for more information on this exhibition go to our website
http://robingibson.net/exhibitions/

http://www.robingibson.net/

2009-11-29T17:25:00.000-08:00

Small is the New Big

Robin Gibson Gallery

278 Liverpool Street Darlinghurst Sydney NSW 2010 Australia • map
Telephone (61 2) 9331 6692 • Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm

5 – 19 December 2009
Opening Tuesday 8 December 6-8pm

Peter Baka, Jacqueline Balassa, Tina Barahanos, Peter Blayney, Ballan Bolton, Stephen Bowers, Cash Brown, Gina Bruce, Richard Byrnes, Karen Choy, Tony Costa, Honey Crawford, Lawrence Daws, Sam Deal, Peter De Lorenzo, Marian Drew, Margaret Early, David Eastwood, Katherine Edney, Erwin Fabian, Simon Fieldhouse, Catherine Fox, Garry Foye, Guy Gilmour, Steve Harris, Geoff Harvey, Kyra Henley, Sergio Hernandez, Ted Hillyer, Wendy Howard, Les Kossatz, Patricia Lawrence, Elwyn Lynn, Marilyn McGrath, Clement Meadmore, Chico Monks, Richard Morris, Addison Marshall, Ian Pearson, Helen Peter Poyser, Phillip Piperides, Qian Jian Hua, Oliffe Richmond, Ken Reinhard, Jeff Rigby, Kevin Robertson, Hui Selwood, Avital Sheffer, Randall Sinnamon, Terry Stringer, Mark Thompson, Lambert Visser, David Warren, Bryan Westwood, Maryanne Wick, Anne Wienholt, Steve Woodward

http://robingibson.net/exhibitions/small-is-the-new-big

2009-04-28T16:04:00.000-07:00

Fragments from the Future
Aspects of Modernism in the Kerry Stokes Collection

Mining Hall of Fame
Goldfields Highway Kalgoorlie

2 May – 28 June 2009

This exhibition looks at the period of Modernism from 1890 up until the 1960s, working with the assumption that it remained a vital force through this period, not yet fully tamed by institutional acceptance. Modernism can be seen as a vision of the future and at other times, a rebuttal of that position. This exhibition incorporates many forms of Modernism around this central idea of an avant-garde movement.
At best, even the most comprehensive art collections can only be made up of fragments. Although the ideals that fuelled the Modernism may have had their day, the artworks remain with us like fragments of that future vision. This exhibition engages with the spirit of Modernism and embraces the excitement of new possibilities particularly in Early Modernism, and how this spirit was translated internationally, through the 20 century.
Exactly where Modernism started is a matter of debate, but the Impressionists had reintroduced the idea of painting that was more like a plane of light or coloured patches than a perfectly blended and seamless illusion. It was these colourful and interesting surfaces that appealed to a younger generation of artists like Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse. Although the Impressionists’ goals were a form of extended realism, the paintings they made suggested a kind of abstraction. This helped lead to a conceptual element gaining greater emphasis in the way artists approached their work.
The exhibition has an international reach and incorporates many excellent examples of Australian art. They are presented without apology for their historical “lateness” as is often the case with Australian art; instead they are simply considered as part the common appearance of Modernism in our visual culture.
The works have been selected with the schools or periods in mind and again this is more a matter of convenience than an iron rule, as some artists drift in and out of any form of strict categorization. The following broad areas have been considered: Early Modernism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstraction and Constructivism and Late Modernism.

Some the artists included in this exhibition are:
Fernand LÉGER, Pablo PICASSO, Ian FAIRWEATHER,
Pierre BONNARD, Kathleen O'CONNOR, Margaret PRESTON, Henri de TOULOUSE LAUTREC,
John PERCEVAL, Joy HESTER, Arthur BOYD, Yosl BERGNER, Jean DUBUFFET,
Paul KLEE, James GLEESON, Adrian FEINT
Howard TAYLOR, Kenneth NOLAND, Richard LARTER, David HOCKNEY

It is commonly thought that by the 1970s’ Modernism had ceased to be an idea about the future and became part of mainstream culture. The legacy of Modernism can be seen in design, perfect kitchens and the mainstream values of Ikea. The current preoccupation with high definition digital realism has left the sometimes rough and unconventional imaginings of Modernism somewhere off to the side. Fragments from the Future: Aspects of Modernism in the Kerry Stokes Collection is an exhibition that re-investigates the imaginative force of Modernism.

Kevin Robertson, Kerry Stokes Collection

Curator’s Perspective Floor Talk by Kevin Robertson Saturday 2 May at 10.30am
Mining Hall of Fame Open Day Sunday 3 May

2009-03-06T05:05:00.000-08:00

Kevin Robertson : Paintings: 2004 - 2009This latest exhibition by Kevin Robertson evokes a silent sense of place.
We witness the Kalgoorlie landscape, the western sky and the urban studio
as an integrated scenario 'pinned to the canvas'.
Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth 29 March - 26 April

2008-11-05T16:15:00.000-08:00

07 Nov 2008, 06:00 PM - Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts26 Acland Street, St Kilda 3182Melbourne, VictoriaLINDEN 1968 LaunchArt - a collective of approximately 30 Perth based artists including Kevin Robertson & diode, Tom Muller, Bennet Miller, Eli Smith, Justin Smith, Ric Spencer, Rodney Glick, Annabel Dixon, Joshua Webb,. Curated by Ben Riding & Hannah Mathews Linden 1968 is a selection of emerging and established West Australian artists who have been asked to create an improvised response to the Linden site through its history, space, function. The exhibition intends to provide a fantastic snapshot of Linden’s existence in 1968 as a private hotel.

2007-10-09T12:35:00.001-07:00

City of Perth Art Award

This year is the inaugural year that this $20,000 acquisitive award will be held at the historic Perth Town Hall.

With twenty-eight of Australia’s leading contemporary visual artists competing for a total prize pool of $25,000, this exhibition is one of the main events on Perth’s visual arts calendar.

Spread over two levels of this historic Perth building, the exhibition presents work from diverse media including photography, textiles, painting, sculpture and drawing.

Link to catalogue

Venue: Perth Town Hall
Location: Cnr Barrack + Hay Streets
Dates: 11 October – 11 November 2007
Opening hours: 11am – 5pm Wed – Sun, 11 – 7pm Frid

2007-07-02T13:48:00.000-07:00

CONFIGURED Opens at THE GALLEY,
34 Main Street Ellenbrook
t: 927 99oo

Wed - Frid 10am - 2pm, Sat/Sun 1pm - 5pm
Free entry

July 1 – July 29

An exciting selection of contemporary representational painting from mid-career and early Perth artists. Curated by Kevin Robertson. Artists include; Andrew Daly, Jo Darbyshire, Leanne Emmitt, Richard Gunning, Thomas Horeau, Joanne Lamb, David Lamb, Garry Pumfrey, and Kevin Robertson. An Art on the Move exhibition.

Opening: Sunday July 1

2007-06-12T15:07:00.000-07:00

Configured in Narrogin

Curated by Perth figurative artist Kevin Robertson, Configured features the work of nine mid-career Western Australian painters, all of whom have worked at the renowned Gotham Studios in Northbridge. The show situates current figurative practice in a distinctly postmodern context by selecting artists who choose to re-work images from the past and explore contemporary imagery. The exhibition also includes a younger generation of artists exploring representation. Subjects represented in the paintings range from urban imagery to self portraits, interiors and the human figure. Exhibiting artists are Jo Darbyshire, Leanne Emmitt, Richard Gunning, Thomas Hoareau, Joanna Lamb, Kevin Robertson, David Lamb, Andrew Daly and Garry Pumfrey.

Currently on show at Nexis Gallery, Narrogin, Western Australia.

2006-10-26T04:17:00.000-07:00

Galerie Düsseldorf : 30 YEARS ON
Celebration exhibition featuring works by :
Su Baker, Susanna Castleden, Douglas Chambers, Lesley Duxbury, Sarah Elson, Galliano Fardin, Caspar Fairhall, Pamela Gaunt, Simon Gevers, Richard Giblett, Jocelyn Gregson, Richard Gunning, Marie Hobbs, Bevan Honey, Jill Kempson, Janet Laurence, Brian McKay, Phillip McLeish, Hilarie Mais, Allan Mitelman, Frank Morris, Tom Mùller, Jánis Nedéla, John Peart, Jon Plapp, Kevin Robertson, Megan Salmon, Douglas Sheerer, Mike Singe, Bruce Slatter, Ted Snell, Alex Spremberg, Howard Taylor, John Teschendorff, Valerie Tring, Virginia Ward, David Watt, Joshua Webb
www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au

2006-10-10T09:20:00.000-07:00

GUILDFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2006 ART EXHIBITION
19th – 22nd October, 2006

2006-08-30T12:21:00.000-07:00

Configured will open at IASKA in September
Configured: Aspects of Contemporary Western Australian Figurative Art will open at IASKA on the 9th of September. This exhibition, curated by Kevin Robertson, features the work of nine mid-career Western Australian painters, all of whom have worked at the renowned Gotham Studios in Northbridge.
http://www.iaska.com.au/

2006-07-11T05:23:00.000-07:00

Melbourne Art Fair 2006

Melbourne Art Fair 2006 is the premier fair and public exposition of contemporary visual art in the Asia Pacific region.Established in 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair is held biennially at the World Heritage Listed Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Melbourne Art Fair 2006 will be held from 2 - 6 August.Melbourne Art Fair 2006 will be the most dynamic event to date, featuring over 80 national and international galleries from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China, Germany and the Netherlands.

Kevin Robertson is represented at the Melbourne Art Fair 2006 by Galerie Dusseldorf.

www.artfair.com.au

2006-06-05T05:59:00.000-07:00

Configured: Aspects of contemporary Western Australian figurative art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia.16 June–2 August 2006. Configured is a selection of contemporary representational painting curated by Perth artist Kevin Robertson. Configured situates current figurative practice in a distinctly postmodern context by selecting artists who re-work images from the past and explore contemporary imagery. From Kevin Robertson’s unconventional figure studies to Jo Darbyshire’s haunting under-water jellyfish paintings to Garry Pumfrey’s suburban delis and Joanna Lamb’s uneasy representations of the suburban landscape, this show features a range of subjects and styles. The artists include Jo Darbyshire, Leanne Emmitt, Richard Gunning, Thomas Hoareau, Joanna Lamb, Kevin Robertson, David Lamb, Andrew Daly and Garry Pumfrey.Configured has been organised and toured by ART ON THE MOVE: The National Exhibitions Touring Structure for Western Australia.