Robert Campbell b. 1902

  • Artist
Ngaku painter and printmaker, Robert Campbell Jr gained national attention in the late 1980s despite having no formal art training. His paintings of the frontier history of racism and colonialism are collected in many state and national institutions.
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exhibited at
Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art
Date
2004
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art Travelling Art Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art
Date
2002
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/x_sublime.asp
exhibited at
A Face In the Crowd
Date
1997
Place
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tyerabarrbowaryaou: I Shall Never Become a White Man
Date
1992
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tagari Lia: My Family
Date
1990
Place
Glasgow, Swansea, Manchester, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Koori Perspective - Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Date
1990
Place
Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University: James Ford Bell Museum
Description

Toured to University of Minnesota and Lakewood Centre for the Arts, Lake Oswego, USA

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Solo Exhibitions
Date
1987 - 1997
Place
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/8/Robert_Campbell_Jnr/357/

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