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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Name
Robert Owen
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Other Occupation
  • Lecturer (Lecturer Associate Professor and Head of Sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Vic. from 1988 - 2001.)
Birth date
1937
Birth place
Wagga Wagga, NSW
Active Period
  • 1962-
Residence
  • 1988- Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1975 - 1988 Sydney, NSW
  • 1966 - 1975 London, UK
  • 1963 - 1966 Greece
  • c.1962 - c.1963 Sydney, NSW
  • c.1937 - c.1962 Wagga Wagga, NSW
Training
  • 1962 National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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  • Prelude (exhibited at)
  • Music for the Eyes (exhibited at)
  • 21st Century Modern (exhibited at)
  • Turrbal-Jagera, The University of Queensland Art Projects (None)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • France-Australie Exchange D'artistes (exhibited at)
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  • Phase Zone Three; Into the Light (exhibited at)
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  • 6th Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality & Beyond (None)
  • Australian Perspecta: Instruments of Art (exhibited at)
  • Biennale Des Friedens (exhibited at)
  • Persephone's Towers (exhibited at)
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  • Turn of the Moon, Folds in the Lake of Light and from the Centre (exhibited at)
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  • 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)
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  • John Moore's Liverpool Exhibition 7 (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Turrbal-Jagera, The University of Queensland Art Projects (None)
  • Spirit + Place (None)
  • Inner Space, 5th Australian Sculpture Triennial (None)
  • 3rd Australian Sculpture Triennial (None)
  • 6th Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality & Beyond (None)
  • Presence and Absence (None)
  • First Australian Sculpture Triennial (None)
  • 7th Mildura Sculpture Triennial (None)