Toni Robertson b. 1953

  • Artist (Printmaker)
Printmaker, Toni Robertson gave up art due to poisoning by chemicals used to make posters at the Tin Sheds Gallery, at the University of Sydney.
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women in the Sheds (1970s-1980s)
Date
8 March 1995 - 1995
Place
Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women at Watters
Date
22 February 1995 - 11 March 1995
Place
Watters Gallery, East Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition, Watters Gallery
exhibited at
In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection
Date
16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description

Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Out of the Void : Mad and Bad Women. Art from the Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery
Date
16 February 1995 - 25 April 1995
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Description

touring exhibition. QAG show opened by Dale Spender, 15 February 1995. Out of the void: a day of celebration held 4 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Feminist, National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Through Women's Eyes
Date
30 July 1994 - 30 June 1995
Place
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Poster Art in Australia: The streets as art galleries - walls sometimes speak
Date
5 November 1993 - 6 February 1994
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Political posters of the 70's: works from the Tin Sheds: a partial survey
Date
24 July 1991 - 10 August 1991
Place
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Right Here Right Now - Australia 1988
Date
5 March 1988 - 27 March 1988
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Curated by Co-Media, National Touring Exhibition
Included work by Portland Community Access Print Workshop, Redback Graphix, TIWI Designs
EAF Annual Report 1988

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Out of sight, out of mind: Australia's places of confinement, 1788-1988
Date
1988
Place
S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sites of power
Date
1985
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

An exhibition of posters and prints

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report, 1985

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Printmaking
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Causes
Date
1984
Place
Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Description

An exhibition of political posters and prints from Canberra 1981-83 (ACME/Megalo?) by Alison Alder, Colin Little, David Morrow, Stephanie Dale, Stephanie Radok, Roland Manderson, Mark Denton, Tony Ayres, Nick Cosgrove, Colin Russell, Virginia Killen, Suzanne McCorquodale, Toni Robertson. Source: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.

Tags
Group exhibition, Printmaking
exhibited at
Project 39: Women's imprint
Date
1 October 1982 - 31 October 1982
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Women and the Arts Festival
exhibited at
Royal nuclear show
Date
June 1981
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Stephanie Britton (ed.) A decade at the EAF: A history of the Experimental Art Foundation 1974-1984. Adelaide: The Experimental Art Foundation, 1984

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Printmaking
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Residency
Date
March 1981
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Toni Robertson (Sydney), silk-screen poster maker, ran workshops, produced series of posters

Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Poster-making
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
An exhibition of work by homosexual and lesbian artists
Date
23 July 1978 - 24 July 1978
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
Description

The exhibition was held in conjunction with the 4th National Homosexual Conference, Paddington Town Hall. Featured artists included: David McDiarmid, Peter Tully, Frances Budden, Vivienne Binns, Sally Colechin, Bill Morley, Doug Erskine, Robert Lawrie etc.

The exhibition was also accompanied by a fund-raising benefit for the Conference on Sunday 23rd of July, which featured Women Action Theatre, Aloma, Bread and Roses, and others. Compered by Jude Kuring.

Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Walls Sometimes Speak
Date
October 1977
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Earthworks Collective,Chips Mackinolty and Toni Robertson, first major political poster show in Australia, touring

Tags
political art
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Portraits of Women - Experiments in Vitreous Enamels
Date
1976
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Also Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, VIC; and Fantasia Gallery, Canberra, ACT. This was a collaborative exhibition with Marie McMahon, Toni Roberton and Frances Budden.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery