Sally Robinson
(Australia, England 18 Apr 1952– )
- Title
- Halley's comet
- Year
- 1986
- Media category
- Materials used
- screenprint on chalk coated Bristol board
- Edition
- 9/40
- Dimensions
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100.3 x 60.1cm image; 116.5 x 77.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "S. Robinson 86".
- Credit
- Purchased 1987
- Accession number
- 490.1987
- Copyright
- © Sally Robinson
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
One of my few city based landscapes, this print was created to celebrate the arrival in the southern hemisphere of Halley's Comet. Rather a disappointment in itself - dwarfed by the lights and activity of the city.
It was a different world in Sydney in 1986 - we were terrorism free and people took responsibility for their own actions. So it was possible for a friend who worked at the airport to arrange for me to lie down at the end of the runway to photograph the undercarraige of a jumbo jet as it screamed overhead.
Artist's statement, 2006
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
- Bibliography (2)
-
Anne Ryan (Australia) (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
Kay Vernon (Author), Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 81
- Exhibition history (4)
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Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007.
