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Details
- Date
- 1976
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on white chalk coated paper
- Edition
- 14/23
- Dimensions
- 72.5 x 84.7 cm image
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "S Robinson '76".
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 233.1977
- Copyright
- © Sally Robinson
- Artist information
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Sally Robinson
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About
Sally Robinson was born in England and arrived in Australia with her family in 1960. From 1970-73 she studied at the National Art School, Sydney 1970-73 and began exhibiting in 1974. She worked as a designer at the Australian Museum, Sydney from 1974-83. She has taught at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, and currently works as an artist and designer. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since 1974. Her current work makes less references to popular culture, and utilises computer technology.
As a student, Robinson became interested in the application of photography to screenprinting. She made 'Beach crossing' while living at Bondi Beach; it is the result of her observations of everyday life in the area.
"If I smile at the world through my prints it is with affection, never with sarcasm. The images are uncomplicated observations of the world in which I live and work, either views of Australian life or typical Australian landscapes. For the most part the images are a montage of elements from several different photographs. Those that remain close to one original photo involve modification by elimination of irrelevant detail and inclusion of drawn elements for the sake of design...
Graphic techniques of tone drop out (posterization), halftone and colour separation are used to reduce the photographs to a printable form. The print is then produced by paper, glue and tusche stencils for the background colours, over-printed by photostencils."
(quoted in Robert Lindsay, 'On paper: Micky Allan, Mandy Martin, Sally Robinson, Jenny Watson', Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1980) -
Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980
Contemporary Australian Drawings and Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1980–01 Jun 1980
On the Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Dec 1982–28 Dec 1982
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, , 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 15 Apr 2000–23 Jul 2000
On the Beach: with Whiteley and fellow Australian artists, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 01 Mar 2003–29 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Jane de Teliga, Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 9.
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Peter Emmett, Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour, 'Suburb', pg. 71-72, Glebe, 2000, 83, 84 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 72
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 117 (colour illus.). cat.no. 98
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Linda Slutzkin, On the beach, Sydney, 1982, 32 (illus.). cat.no. 30
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 120
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