Robert George Owen b. 1937

Also known as Robert Owen
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Artist, Robert Owen's practice includes sculpture, painting, photography, installation and major public commissions. He has been awarded a John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition 7 UK prize (1969), represented Australia at the 38th Biennale of Venice (1978), and has received the Australian Council Visual Arts/Crafts Emeritus Award for a lifelong service to the visual arts (2003).
Tags: Artist, Sculpture, Painting, Installation, Photography, Public Art, Sydney, Melbourne
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exhibited at
The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Retrospective Installation
Date
1988
Place
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Trace of a Silent Bell
Date
1988
Place
Palais de Rhin, Strasbourg, France
Description

SOLO. Also City Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (1989)

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Easy Science
Date
1987
Place
United Artist Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
3rd Australian Sculpture Triennial
Date
1987
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Geometric Abstraction
Date
1986
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
6th Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality & Beyond
Date
1986
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Instruments of Art: Australian Perspecta '85
Date
24 October 1985 - 1985
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Biennale Des Friedens
Date
1985
Place
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Persephone's Towers
Date
1985
Place
Air & Space Studio, London, UK
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Resurrections
Date
1985
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Inside and Out; Irving Sculpture Gallery, 1984 5th Biennale of Sydney 1984, Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Date
1984
Place
Irving Sculpture Gallery
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Sculpture, Social Commentry
exhibited at
Turn of the Moon, Folds in the Lake of Light and from the Centre
Date
1984
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Installation

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Continuum '83
Date
22 August 1983 - 3 September 1983
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Continuum 83, Australian Contemporary Art in Tokyo
Date
1983
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
From the Centre
Date
1983
Place
Art Projects, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
Presence and Absence
Date
1983
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Hammer on Rock
Date
1982
Place
Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Sound installation

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Art of the Last Ten Years
Date
1982
Place
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Seventies into Eighties
Date
1982
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ambiente
Date
1982
Place
Rimini, Italy
Description

Installations

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Anzart: Art Encounter
Date
1981
Place
Art Gallery of Christchurch, Christchurch, NZ
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Re-Constructed Vision
Date
1981
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
First Australian Sculpture Triennial
Date
1981
Place
La Trobe University & Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Plain Images
Date
1980
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Installation with Mike Parr.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Burano, Colourworks
Date
1979
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Also toured: Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT; Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW

Type
Exhibition
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