ROBYN BACKEN

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2003  Master of Art History & Theory at College of Fine Arts
1983   Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts
1977-79   Diploma of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts

 

OTHER POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
2004 Metro Screen, Planning Skills for Interactive Media Projects
1997 Australian Network for Art and Technology, Summer School, Perth
1981-83 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. (Australia Council: Overseas Study Grant)
1983  International Summer Academy, Salzburg. Sculpture
1982 International Summer Academy, Salzburg. Sculpture
1980  International Summer Academy, Salzburg

 

LECTURING POSITION
2008   Coordinator of Master of Coursework - Sydney College of the Arts

 

GRANTS and AWARDS
2008 Australia Council - New Works Grant
2001  

NAWIC: Award for Achievement in Art in the Built Environment National Association of Women in Construction - Acoustic Logic Consultancy

1998 Asialink: Residency in Delhi India
1997  Australia Council - New Works Grant
1996 Australia Council - Quick Response Grant - Art and Architecture Conference, Adelaide
1993-4  Australia Council - Professional Development Grant - Artist in Residence Germany
1985  Australia Council - Project Grant
1982 International Summer Academy, Salzburg - Sculpture Scholarship for following year
1981 Australia Council: Overseas Study Grant -  Rietveld Academy Amsterdam
1980 

International Summer Academy, Salzburg - Goldsmiths Award

   

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 It's me...I'm here...where're you Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006-07 Break in Play Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney - collaboration with Terry Hayse and Harry Barnett
2005 VinculumArtspace, Sydney - collaboration with John Tonkin
2001  SSO Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1998  littoral Artspace, Sydney
1981   littoral & Scales of the Sole IMA, Brisbane
1997 Scales of the Sole Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1995 Presage Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1981   verge in rain ... a translation Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1994 verge in rain Kunsthaus Rhenania Gallery, Cologne
1993 pronto - Compounded Garden Installation, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1981  

pronto Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial - Various Occupations Linden, Melbourne

1990  SPRUNG Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1986  Second Generation Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, Sydney
1981   Seeing Double (collaboration with Chris Fortescue) First Draft, Sydney
1983 Coming Through Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
1982 Coming Through Performance and Video, Gallery Mattar, Cologne

    

COMMISSIONS
2009 Walls that Whisper Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra
2006-09 Delicate Balance Ballast Point, Sydney
2008-09  Second Skin Surfers Paradise (in progress)
2004  Droplet Lend Lease Hickson Rd, Sydney
2002-3 Lux St Canisis - Kings Cross, Sydney
2001 Banner Project National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2000  Weeping Walls Sydney International Airport
1981   the building that speaks New Farm Powerhouse, Brisbane
1999 Archaeology of Bathing Sculpture Walk, Sydney
1998 Signage of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
1996 Blindfold Liverpool Library, Sydney
1994   Christ Knows Powerhouse Facade, Casula, Sydney
1981   Signage of the Powerhouse, Casula, Sydney

   

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Whispering Trees De Overkant, Den Haag Sculpur, Holland
2007 ATROPHY Science as Art collaboration organised by Garvan Institute and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at AGNSW
2006-07 Yours, Mine ours 50 years ABC TV Archive Project, Lewers Bequest, Penrith
2004 ALSO Conversion, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn
2003  Rice Talk Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan
1981   Imagining Prometheus Palazzo dell Ragione, Milan, Italy
2002 

The First 20 years of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

2001 Catching...the harbour Australian Museum, Sydney
1981   Intersections of Art and Science Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2000

Flow National Gallery Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia             

1999 UNIVERSE Project Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1992 Mapping Our Countries Djamu Gallery, Australian Museum, Customs House, Sydney
 

4 Blind Dates at the Kendra Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India

1997   Dots to Data Australian Perspecta 1997, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1997 Field of Dreams: Message Sticks for Native Title SH Ivan Gallery, Sydney
1996

Bi Focal Spirit and Place. The Spirit in Australian Art 1880 –1996, MCA, Sydney

1994 

Shifting Edges Powerhouse Casula, Sydney

1993  Sweet Dreams Australian Perspecta 1993 Satellite Exhibition, Clarendon Homes, Homeworld ll Prospect, Sydney
1992   

Clear Case Ben Grady Gallery

1992 FACT An Installation Publication, A National Touring Project, Ars Multiplicata, Sydney
1992 New Acquisions Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1992 Derision and Desire The Car Blaxland Gallery, Grace Bros, Sydney
1991

Sprung Australian Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1992 Discrete Entity Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1992 Urban Detritus Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1990 Urban Construction Project Construction (with Andrew Charker & Anne Morrison) City Square, Melbourne
1992 The Contemporary Art of Dress Marimura Arts Museum, Japan
1989  The Contemporary Art of Dress Victoria & Albert Museum, London & Powerhouse, Sydney
1992 1989 Perth International Craft Triennial Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth
1992 Dreams are not stories...they happen in space (performance with Judy Best) Queen Victoria Building, Sydney
1992 Inside the Greenhouse Effect Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1988 Accentrix Albury Regional Art Centre, Albury
1988  Accentrix Albury Regional Art Centre, Albury
1992 Australian Decorative Arts 1788-1988 Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987 Self Portrait Show Cog Gallery, Sydney
1986  Group Exhibition Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Launceston
1985 Group Exhibition Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, Sydney
1981   Personal Choice Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide
1984      

Streetspace Shop Front Installation, satellite Biennale, Sydney

1981   Opening Group Exhibition VO Gallery, Washington
1981   Crosscurrents Powerhouse, Sydney
1983 Sculpture & Multi-media Niew Gallery, Amsterdam
1981   Group Exhibition Sternteiler Gallery, Bonn
1981   Sculpture Exhibition Salzburg
1982 Meat Market Melbourne
1981   Goldsmths Messe, Munich
1981   Fordor Museum, Amsterdam (Rietveld Academy exhibition)
1981   Jewellery Re-Defined London
1981   Meat Market Melbourne
1979

Australian Contemporary Jewellery Travelling Show, Japan, Asia & Australia

 

RESIDENCIES
2009  Bundanon Studio Residency, Bundanon
2003  University of Wollongong, Wollongong
2001   Australian Museum, Sydney
1998-9 Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India
1998 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1994 Kunsthaus Rhenania Gallery, Cologne, Germany

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2009  

Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Sydney

  

Old Parliament House, Canberra

2001  

Australian Museum, Sydney

1995 Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
1992  Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1988 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1984  Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1984  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1981 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra