William Robinson (painter)

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William Francis Robinson (born April 16, 1936 in Brisbane ) is an Australian painter , lithographer and art educator .

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William Robinson attended elementary schools in the Fairfield and Annerley neighborhoods of Brisbane and then Brisbane State High School. In 1953 he began training as a primary school teacher and, from 1955, completed a two-year scholarship to become an art teacher. In 1957 he began to work as an art teacher and studied on the side to obtain his diploma .

In 1958 he married Shirley Rees, with whom he had six children.

In 1962 he graduated as an art teacher and for painting and graphics. From 1963 to 1969 he was an art professor at Kedron Park Teachers College. In 1967 he had his first solo exhibition at the Design Arts Center in Brisbane. From 1970 to 1975 he was a Senior Lecturer in Arts at Kelvin Grove Teachers College. In 1971 he visited an exhibition by Pierre Bonnard in Sydney , which had a strong influence on his later work, particularly his interest in landscape painting . In 1975 he taught for six months at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba . From 1976 to 1981 he worked at the North Brisbane College of Advanced Education. In 1977 he exhibited work at the Ray Hughes Gallery in Brisbane. The subject of rural life became the main theme of his further work. From 1982 to 1989 he was a Senior Lecturer at Brisbane College of Advanced Education.

In 1984 he moved to a farm near Beechmont in the hinterland of the Gold Coast in Queensland . There he began working on landscapes of the subtropical rainforest .

In 1987 he received the Archibald Prize for portrait painting . In 1989 he stopped teaching and started working full-time as an artist. In 1990 he received the Wynne Prize for landscape painting. He started making lithographs . Foreign trips to Europe took him to Greece , Great Britain , France and Italy .

Starting in 1991, after losing two of his children, his work became more and more introspective and thoughtful. In 1992 he began working on his "Mountain Series", which he regards as his best works.

In 1994 he moved to Kingscliff , New South Wales and bought a studio in the Springbrook rainforest .

In 1995 he received the Archibald Prize for the second time and traveled to Paris , where he made lithographs in Hervé Bordas' studio . In 1996 he received the Wynne Prize for the second time. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology . He had several exhibitions including in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. In 2001 an exhibition of his oeuvre was shown in the Queensland Art Gallery . In 2005 he moved to the Byron Bay area .

In 2007 he became Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).

In 2009 the "William Robinson Gallery" was opened at the Queensland University of Technology. In the same year, the Australian filmmaker Catherine Hunter shot the documentary Wiliam Robinson. A painter's journey. In 2011, on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the William Robinson Gallery and the Art Museum of the Queensland University of Technology, an exhibition with the complete works of William Robinson was shown.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Nimbin Rocks in Fog , oil on canvas, 137.5 × 183 cm, 1996

literature

  • Lynn Fern: William Robinson. Craftsman House, Roseville East 1995, ISBN 976-8097-66-3 .
  • William Robinson, Deborah Hart, Richard Stringer: William Robinson. The transfigured landscape. Queensland University of Technology / Piper Press, Brisbane 2011, ISBN 978-0-9808347-1-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Robinson. A painter's journey on trove.nla.gov.au
  2. ↑ Nimbin Rocks in Fog on bonhams.com
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, William Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter, lithographer and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane