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Organised by AGWA. With assistance from the State Government of Western Australia; the Perth International Arts Festival; the Visual Arts and Crafts Fund of the Australia Council. An overview of the work of Robert MacPherson, works with colonial Australian subject matter and materials, disappearing Australian colloquialisms and culture. At the same time his work participates in an international dialogue.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/past_ex/robmac.htm

Exhibition Catalogue:
Smith, Trevor, Robert MacPherson. Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2001
ISBN 0 7309 3628 7

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
184 frog poems: 184 boss drovers / Robert MacPherson. Brisbane: IMA Publishing, 2001
ISBN 1875792406

A satellite exhibition of the Boennale of Sydney. Two of our most important senior artists present major new works in conversation with more conceptual and personal works from the late 1970’s

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Landfall / Bea Maddock, Robert MacPherson. Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2000
1 folded sheet (3 p ) : col ill ; 30 cm

A mini-survey, included major works created over twenty years, and was exhibited at two venues. At the University of South Australia Art Museum, two major works from the 1970’s were installed. In the large gallery space, MacPherson’s Filled Gestures 1977 covered the walls. The organic nature if Filled Gestures was echoed by the triangular forms repeated in wood, watercolour and photography in Souvenir of Marlene Deitrich: (13 Simple Gestures) 1977-88.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
UNISAM exhibition archive; Curtin Gallery exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: Murranji. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Artspace Visual Arts Centre, 1998
ISBN 1876017638

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Periz, Ingrid, Robert MacPherson 1975-1995. Melbourne, Vic: National Gallery of Victoria, 1995
1 folded sheet [5] p : col ill ; 30 cm

Two artists were invited to make work for the South Australian Museum and were given access to collections of the Museum. Works that looked at, and experimented with, ideas of how we structured and make sense of the world; concerned with questioning and illuminating the ways that we read meanings into individual objects and how we place them in structures that, in turn, generate meanings.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Organised and toured by the University Art Museum, University of Queensland

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: a proposition to draw 1973-78. St Lucia, QLD: University Art Museum, University of QLD, c1993
ISBN 0867765135

A survey of recent work by the artist.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: the described the undescribed. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, [1994]
ISBN 0731029194

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Paintings and installations by Robert MacPherson, one of Australia’s leading conceptual artists, which had been acquired by the Gallery during the previous two years.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive; State Library of QLD

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: 20 frog poems: distant thunder (a memorial) for DM 1987-1989. July 1989 Bulletin (Institute for Modern Art, (Brisbane, QLD))

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson : exhibition 1: the rectangle is a container; exhibition 2: I see a can of paint as a painting unpainted. Darlinghurst, NSW: Various Artists Ltd (Publications), 1987
ISBN 0958824711

Curated with Peter Cripps and using many works held by Malcolm Enright.
Exhibition Catalogue:
Survey exhibition / Robert MacPherson. Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art, 1985.
ISBN 0959444157

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive