CAMERON ROBBINS . BIO & CV
Cameron Robbins is the first Australian artist invited to present a large scale solo exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania.
This exhibition Field Lines opened in May 2016 across 9 new gallery spaces in the museum.
His work makes tangible the underlying structures and rhythms of natural forces. He has produced site-specific installations and exhibitions in art centres, disused buildings and outdoor sites in Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Norway, China, Denmark, Germany and the UK, both self-funded and commissioned.
These inquiries employ structural devices including kinetic wind or water powered mechanical systems. Their aesthetic is the result of both careful engineering and resourcefulness. The outputs of these site-specific installations include wind drawings and sound compositions. These inter-pretations of the dynamics and scale of the physical world suggest the complexities of the unknown.
Cameron is based in Melbourne Australia, plays clarinet and saxophone in jazz and experimental ensembles, and studied Fine Art (Sculpture) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts to 1990; lectured in art and design at RMIT since 2000; awarded Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship in 2015, and New Work Grants in 2011 and 2013, and vari-ous commissions.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 'Remote Drawings', solo exhibition, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2017 Collaboration with JIGSAW Clothing, a new range of fine garments based on Wind Drawings ‘Force of Nature’ exhibition curated by James Putnam, Mile End Pavilion, London
2017 ‘Socle Du Monde’ Biennale, Denmark
2017 Private commission in Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Permanent Installation of Wind Section Instrumental at MONA
2017 Residency at Hazelhurst Gallery
2017 Guest artist at ‘Sculpture @Bathers’ Fremantle WA
2017 FLOAT project Lake Tyers Victoria
2017 solo exhibition at MARS Melbourne Art Rooms
2016 FIELD LINES exhibition Museum of Old and New Art (TAS)
2015 Awarded Visual Arts Fellowship from Australia Council for the Arts
2015 GAUGE project in Brighton, UK May
2015 Exhibition “Motorenwerke” Galerie oqbo, Berlin
2015 Exhibition, Anna Pappas Gallery, October
2015 Commission, ‘Milllkulture’, Yarra Ranges Museum (Lilydale)
2014 Berlin: oqbo gallerie exhibition
2014 3 Berlin Performances – sound music and drawing machine with Jon Tarry
2014 Melbourne Art Fair
2014 Composing Common Worlds, Town Hall Gallery exhibition
2014 Private Commission (Hobart), outside/inside Wind Drawing Machine
2013 New Work Grant (Australia Council for the Arts)
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria (International)
2013 ‘Loggerheads’, solo exhibition , Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2013 Nordic Artists Centre, NKD Norway, Residency 3 months March-May
2013 Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) commission : Wind Section Instrumental
2012 CSI Flinders Street Railway Station
2012 GAUGE at ArtsHouse/Meat Market
2011 'Working with Atmosphere', solo exhibition, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2011 Hong Kong Art Fair with Gallery Barry Keldoulis
2011 LSDM, Lunar Solar Drawing Machine, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2011 Korean International Art Fair with GBK
2011 Australia Council for the Arts New Work (established) Grant
2010 Very Slow Drawing Machine, Fracture Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne
2010 Shanghai Weather Station, East China Normal University Art School, Shanghai