Name

John Robinson

Other names

ROBINSON, John Harold

Culture

Australian

Gender

Male

Birth date

4 November 1940

Birth place

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Death date

2 March 2009

Death Place

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Movements

Europe 1967-69, 1975-76

Occupations

Artist (painter) | Printer (editioning) | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC). Etchings lithographs

NGA IRN

18429

Context

Australia

Web

https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/bendigo-art-gall…

Website

See also

Druckma Press; Lithos Press.

Biography

See: Imprint Vol. 44 no.3, Spring 2009, p. 5 col.ill.

John Robinson was born in Melbourne in 1940 and graduated from RMIT with a Diploma of Art in 1962. On completion of his studies Robinson began exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions, with his first major exhibition of paintings and woodcuts held at Argus Gallery, Melbourne and subsequently at Realities Gallery, Melbourne. In the late 1970s Robinson and others established a lithographic print workshop, Druckma Press, which he managed from 1978 to 1983; he subsequently founded his own press, Lithos Press, which printed editions for many established Australian artists, including John Brack and Fred Williams.

Robinson is perhaps most recognised for his work as a printmaker, although his earliest exhibitions were comprised primarily of photo-realist paintings. By the mid-1970s, however, the imagery in his work had become more abstracted. This exhibition presents a selection of works created in other media – drawing in oilstick and painting. Robinson considered that drawing, painting and printmaking were integral components of his artistic oeuvre, believing these three elements to be inextricably linked and that each cannot exist in art without reference to the other.

[Bendigo Art Gallery media, 2009].

Last Updated

31 Oct 2024