John Robinson
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
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, 2009].
Last Updated
20 Oct 2023