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Jack Robins, mixed media artist, initially studied gold and silversmithing at RMIT before moving to Tasmania in 2005 to study sculpture at the University of Tasmania. He graduated with First Class Honours in 2007 and the following year he undertook a PhD candidature which he completed in 2013. Robins’ work engages with architectural considerations and outcomes that surround public space and public control. His large, sculptural forms and gallery interventions evoke high modernist forms, while manipulating the way in which gallery viewers can move within and through the space.

In 2007 Robins was the recipient of the CAST Curatorial Mentorship, curating the exhibition 'Companion Planting’ in May 2008. Based on the debate concerning nature and culture, the works in the exhibition illustrated the way human production is linked to the natural environment and the problems created when debate separates the two into distinct streams of thought.

Robins sat on the board of _Six_a inc_, an artist run initiative in North Hobart, for two years as the publicity officer and artist liaison. He is also a founding member of 10% pending, a spaceless ARI whose objective is to foster new and innovative modes for making, exhibiting and interacting with contemporary art. His work has been exhibited in Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne and Perth.

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2013

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2013