Robert Owen b. 1937

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Prolific sculptor and installation artist who studied under Lyndon Dadswell at the National Art School in the early 1960s, Owen has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been awarded a number of public commissions including sculptural installations for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the New Commonwealth Law Courts in Melbourne (1998) and a public sculpture for the Nippon Exhibition Centre in Chiba, Japan.
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Related stub person groups
  • ARC One Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
Related people
  • Dadswell, Lyndon (associate of)
  • Redgate, Jacky (associate of)
  • Tillers, Imants (associate of)
  • Parr, Mike (associate of)
  • Boyd, Arthur (associate of)
  • Hessing, Leonard (associate of)
Related works
  • Craigieburn Bypass (creator of)
  • Webb Bridge (creator of)
  • Memory Pond (creator of)
  • Discobolus (creator of)
  • Axiom (creator of)
  • Vessel (creator of)
Related collections
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (collected in)
  • British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, UK (collected in)
  • Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia (collected in)
  • Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France (collected in)
  • Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany (collected in)
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (collected in)
  • Banque National De Paris, France (collected in)
  • Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome, Italy (collected in)
  • Polaroid Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe (collected in)
  • National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico (collected in)
  • National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (collected in)
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India (collected in)
  • National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan (collected in)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (collected in)
  • Narodna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (collected in)
  • National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (collected in)
  • National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (collected in)
  • Central Art Gallery, Beijing, China (collected in)
  • Museo de Arts de Sao Paulo, Brazil (collected in)
  • Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand (collected in)
  • Archivio Arti Contemporanee, Venice, Italy (collected in)
  • Vizard Foundation Art Collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne (collected in)
  • Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW (collected in)
  • Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Vic. (collected in)
  • Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongon, NSW (collected in)
  • Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • The University of Melbourne Collection, Vic. (collected in)
  • Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • Armidale City Art Gallery, Armidale, NSW (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic. (collected in)
  • Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA (collected in)
  • Mildura City Art Gallery, Mildura, Vic. (collected in)
  • Naracoorte Art Gallery, SA (collected in)
  • Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • New Parliament House, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Perc Tucker Art Gallery, Townsville, Qld (collected in)
  • Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tas. (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • RAIA Joseph Reed Urban Design Award for 'Craigieburn Bypass' (received)
  • RAIA Joseph Reed Urban Design Award for 'Webb Bridge' (received)
  • Craigieburn Bypass: Melbourne's Northern Gateway' (received)
  • Webb Bridge' (received)
  • Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board Emeritus Award for Lifetime Service to the Arts (received)
  • Memory Pond', fountain, light and text installation for Grattan Gardens Plaza (received)
  • Discobulus', Hellenic Tribute, Sydney 2000 Olympics, sculpture installation, Olympic Park (received)
  • Axiom', Atrium sculpture, Commonwealth Law Courts (received)
  • Vessel', public sculpture, Nippon Exhibition Centre, Chiba, Japan (received)
  • 1988 : Artist-in-residence, Gertrude St Artists Studio, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Artist-in-residence, Centre Europien D'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC) (received)
  • Night Companion', sculpture tower, World Expo 88 (received)
  • Artist-in-residence, Victorian College of the Arts (received)
  • Artist-in-residence, Air & Space Studio, London, UK (received)
  • Visual Arts Board Grant to participate in D'un autre continent, ARC/Musie d'Art Moderne de la Ville (received)
  • Interiors, design production (costume, stage & lighting), Sydney Dance Company (received)
  • Visual Arts Board Project Grant to participate in 38th Venice Biennale, Italy (received)
Related events
  • AUSTRALIA Contemporary Non-Objective Art (exhibited at)
  • Inside and Out; Irving Sculpture Gallery, 1984 5th Biennale of Sydney 1984, Sydney, Nsw, Australia (exhibited at)
  • Prelude (exhibited at)
  • Music for the Eyes (exhibited at)
  • 21st Century Modern (exhibited at)
  • Long Before Moving (exhibited at)
  • London, Looking East. Australian artists in Australia Council Studios (exhibited at)
  • Architecture, Melbourne Masters (exhibited at)
  • New Acquisitions in Context (exhibited at)
  • the text of light (exhibited at)
  • Flickering Light (exhibited at)
  • Different Lights Cast Different Shadows, The 2nd Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project (exhibited at)
  • McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award (exhibited at)
  • see here now, Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s (exhibited at)
  • Sculpture 2003: Installations (exhibited at)
  • Towards a Free Tibet (exhibited at)
  • A History of Happiness (exhibited at)
  • low-down: recent acquisitions, Monash University Collection (exhibited at)
  • The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (exhibited at)
  • Buddha: Radiant Awakening (exhibited at)
  • Quietness (exhibited at)
  • Art & Kabbalah: Contemporary Responses to an Ancient Tradition (exhibited at)
  • Silver (exhibited at)
  • Construction in Process VI: The Bridge (exhibited at)
  • Leaving the Memory Behind (Cubes & Hypercubes) (exhibited at)
  • Geometric Abstraction in Australia 1941 - 1997 (exhibited at)
  • Ghost Tantras and Coloured Spaces (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Circle, Line Square, Aspects of Geometry (exhibited at)
  • Reinventing the Grid (exhibited at)
  • aussemblage! (exhibited at)
  • Lightworks (exhibited at)
  • Sunrise (exhibited at)
  • The Angelic Space, A Celebration of Piero Della Francesca (exhibited at)
  • Re-Vision (exhibited at)
  • Off the Wall - In the Air, A Seventies Selection (exhibited at)
  • Three Installations, Echo (A Warring Peace; A Sweet Wound; A Mild Evil) (exhibited at)
  • Out of Asia (exhibited at)
  • Inland, Corresponding Places (exhibited at)
  • Re-Vision (Three Works) (exhibited at)
  • Deux Ex Machina (exhibited at)
  • France-Australie Exchange D'artistes (exhibited at)
  • Prints by Twenty-Five Australian Artists (exhibited at)
  • Olympiad of Art (exhibited at)
  • Phase Zone Three; Into the Light (exhibited at)
  • A Warring Peace; A Sweet Wound; A Mild Evil (exhibited at)
  • The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Retrospective Installation (exhibited at)
  • Trace of a Silent Bell (exhibited at)
  • Easy Science (exhibited at)
  • DBRef(u'xactivity', ObjectId('4da1b879b538b73d930215aa')) (exhibited at)
  • Geometric Abstraction (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta: Instruments of Art (exhibited at)
  • Biennale Des Friedens (exhibited at)
  • Persephone's Towers (exhibited at)
  • Resurrections (exhibited at)
  • Turn of the Moon, Folds in the Lake of Light and from the Centre (exhibited at)
  • Continuum 83, Australian Contemporary Art in Tokyo (exhibited at)
  • From the Centre (exhibited at)
  • Hammer on Rock (exhibited at)
  • Australian Art of the Last Ten Years (exhibited at)
  • The Seventies into Eighties (exhibited at)
  • Ambiente (exhibited at)
  • Anzart: Art Encounter (exhibited at)
  • Re-Constructed Vision (exhibited at)
  • Plain Images (exhibited at)
  • Burano, Colourworks (exhibited at)
  • 3rd Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue (exhibited at)
  • Cross-Reference (exhibited at)
  • 38th Biennale of Venice (exhibited at)
  • Documentation (exhibited at)
  • Memory & Logic Units (exhibited at)
  • Some Past/Some Future Work (exhibited at)
  • Constructions & Drawings (exhibited at)
  • Seven Days (Drawings 1966 - 1974) (exhibited at)
  • Relief Constructions (exhibited at)
  • Three to Infinity (exhibited at)
  • Four Australian Artists (exhibited at)
  • Constructions (exhibited at)
  • John Moore's Liverpool Exhibition 7 (exhibited at)