Robyn Backen b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist who works with ideas from science, communications technology and philosophy to make art installations that focus as much on formal and poetic elements as they do on the way the objects make use of space in which they are placed.
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Name
Robyn Backen
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Other Occupation
  • Coordinator of Master of Contemporary Art - Sydney College of the Arts (ANZSIC code: 8102) -
  • -
Birth date
1957
Birth place
Canberra, ACT
Active Period
  • 1985 -
Training
  • Diploma of Visual Arts, 1977 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Bachelor of Visual Arts, 1983 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Master of Art History & Theory, 2003 College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
  • Postgraduate studies, 1981 - 1983 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands (http://www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl/en/)
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW

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An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation Art', Power Publications, Sydney, NSW.>]