Dancing Wire Screen | 2022

Sally Robinson

My art career began as a fine art screen printer. I then made a shift back to painting, incorporating and adapting the stencil technique from printmaking to create dynamic, pixelated surface textures in acrylic on canvas After producing black and white linear paintings with a sense of movement and dimension, I began creating actual 3D space.

In my works in-the-round, black wires move through repeated shapes, holding and being contained by them. My relief works use black lines of wire undulating over a white background where the waves take on the appearance of mountains, hills and valleys.
1952 Born in England
1960 Emigrated to Australia
1970-73 Studied at the National Art School, Sydney
1974-83 Designer at the Australian Museum, Sydney
1976-88 Lecturer, Alexander Mackie College/City Art Institute, Sydney
Currently working full-time as an artist

Select Solo Exhibitions (recent)
2008 - present The Astor – Studio and Art Gallery, Sydney
2024 50 Year Survey Exhibition, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Select Group Exhibitions (recent)
2015. Gallipoli Art Prize, Gallipoli Club, Sydney, NSW & Tour
Portia Geach Portrait Prize Exhibition, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2016 Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, Bega NSW
2017. Women in Focus National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Archibald Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2019. Portia Geach Portrait Prize Exhibition, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2020. 50 Years - Gosford Art Prize 1970-2019, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
Darling Portrait Prize Finalist Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
‘Reconnected: a recovery story’, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie
‘Pub Rock’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT and Tour
2021. ‘Archibald Salon des Refuses’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, The David Roche Foundation Gallery, Adelaide
‘Kennedy Prize Exhibition’, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide SA
2023. ‘Sculpture on the Farm’, Fosterton, NSW
2024. ‘Glint of Koi’, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Gosford NSW
‘Portia Geach at 60”, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘Calleen Art Prize Exhibition”, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
‘Like New”, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie

Represented in Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; National Gallery of New Zealand, Auckland; State Galleries of NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia, Northern Territory; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Regional Art Galleries in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia; Artbank; Parliament House, Canberra; Parliament House, Sydney; The Australian Museum, Sydney; Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart; John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Perth; Fitzroy Library, Victoria; Academy of Medical Sciences, London UK: University of Cambridge, UK; Universities in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia; City Councils; corporations and private collections.

Awards and Commissions
2005. Portrait Commission – Prof John Dwyer for Prince of Wales Hospital
2006. Portrait Commission – Justice Mary Gaudron for NSW Bar Association
Portrait Commission – Prof Sir Keith Peters, for Academy of Medical Sciences, London
Tapestry Commission for ANZ Bank by Victorian Tapestry Workshop
2007. Portrait Commission – Regius Professor of Physic, Sir Keith Peters, for University of Cambridge, UK
2010. Portrait Commission – Dean of Medicine, UNSW – Professor Peter Smith, for School of Medicine UNSW
2012.

WINNER PORTIA GEACH AWARD FOR PORTRAITURE
Portrait Commission – Headmistress – Louise Roberts-Smith, for Ascham Girls School, Sydney
2013. Portrait Commission – Sir Bruce Ponder – Director of CRUK Institute, for Cambridge University, UK
2015. WINNER GALLIPOLI ART PRIZE
2016. WINNER SHIRLEY HANNAN PORTRAIT AWARD
2019. WINNER PORTIA GEACH AWARD FOR PORTRAITURE
2021. Portrait Commission – Paul Wellings – Vice Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, NSW

WINNER KENNEDY ART PRIZE