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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creator of
Delicate Balance
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creator of
atrophy
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creator of
whispering trees
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creator of
it's me...i'm here...where're you
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creator of
vinculum
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creator of
break in play
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creator of
droplet
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creator of
also
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creator of
eternal silence
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creator of
rice talk
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creator of
sso
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creator of
catching...the harbour
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creator of
building that speaks
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creator of
weeping walls
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creator of
littoral
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creator of
purdah in the kitchen
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creator of
archaeology of bathing
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creator of
scales of the sole
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creator of
dots to data
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creator of
blindfold
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creator of
presage
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creator of
bifocal
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creator of
verge in rain_in translation
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creator of
christ knows
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creator of
verge in rain
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An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation Art', Power Publications, Sydney, NSW.>] [<ExternalResource: Vernon, Christopher (September-October 2005), "100 Forests/100 Gardens", Architecture Australia.>, <ExternalResource: (2001), 'Intersections of Art and Science', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, NSW, exhibition catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Holder, Jo (1995), 'Casula Powerhouse Regional Art Centre', Art and Australia, Art and Australia, Spring 1995.>, <ExternalResource: Couacaud, Sally, 'Public Art in Sydney', Artlink, vol 14 no 3 Spring 1994.>, <ExternalResource: Cater, Melissa, ''Contemporary History in the Making', Artlink', Artlink, vol. 14 no 3 Spring 1994.>, <ExternalResource: Millner, Jacqueline (10 April 1998), 'Art Sensor', RealTime, p. 41, .>, <ExternalResource: Backen, Robyn (1999), 'Artist Choice: The Holy Face', Art & Australia, p. 348, vol. 36,.>, <ExternalResource: Best, Susan (September/October 2000), 'Public Art in the Olympic City', Architecture Australia, pp. 81 - 85.>, <ExternalResource: Brassil, Joan, 'Robyn Backen: The Archaeology of Bathing', Art & Australia, pp. 72 - 73, Vol. 38, Spring, 2000.>, <ExternalResource: Macgowan, Tempe (Oct/Nov 2000), 'The Art of the Airport', Monument, No. 38, pp. 104 - 107.>, <ExternalResource: Skinner, Peter, 'Funk & Functionality', Architecture Australia, pp. 60 - 63, Vol. 90, No. 1, January/ February.>, <ExternalResource: Chan, Kitty (2009), 'Interview with the artist'.>, <ExternalResource: Couacaud, Sally (2004), '2003 Echigo-Tsumari Triennial', Art & Australia, Vol. 41 No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 535 - 537.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10383 Earrings (pair), Bakelite/ rubber/ steel/ wire, Robyn Backen, Australia, 1984', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Murphy, John (2000), 'Weeping Walls- Robyn Backen', Sydney International Airport.>, <ExternalResource: Bingham-Hall, Patrick (ed.) (2000), ''Archaeology ojavascript:jlocal()f Bathing', Celebrating Sydney 2000 - 100 Legacies: A Pesaro Architectural Guidebook', Pesaro Publishing, Sydney.>, <ExternalResource: Best, Sue (1998), 'The Water Works of Robyn Backen', Eyeline.>, <ExternalResource: Waterlow, Nick (1996), 'Numinous Worlds', Spirit and Place.>, <ExternalResource: Ewington, Julie (1989), '...a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate - An Essay on Robyn Backen's Bakelite Jewellery'', VACB Overseas Promotions Magazine, p. 19.>, <ExternalResource: (1998), 'Elizabeth Day. Robyn Backen. ZKM.', Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Woolloomooloo, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Thesis (M. Art - Hist & Th), College of Fine Arts, University of NSW (2003), 'The distinction and intersection between analogue and digital communication systems in contemporary art', Backen, Robyn.>, <ExternalResource: Geczy, Adam & Genocchio, Benjamin (eds.) (2001), 'What Is Installation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation Art', Power Publications, Sydney, NSW.>]