Toni Robertson

  • Artist (Printmaker)
Printmaker, Toni Robertson gave up art due to poisoning by chemicals used to make posters at the Tin Sheds Gallery, at the University of Sydney.
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Printmaker, lives in Sydney (Paddington) with Kay Vernon. Works in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (see www.australianprints.gov.au) include the Earthworks Poster Collective colour poster made from multiple stencils, Pow! Never underestimate the power of a woman 1977 (2nd edition) – a screenprint of Lucy bashing Linus from Charles Schultz’s Charlie Brown. JK has one of her Canberra Beaches series (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT). She was represented by Watters Gallery until she gave up art because of poisoning by chemicals used to make posters at the Tin Sheds, where she worked as a tutor. Her final work was a dramatic Death in Custody poster (a sock in Aboriginal colours as a noose); it was included in James Kerr’s Bicentennial Exhibition, Out of Sight, out of mind (SH Ervin Gallery, National Trust, 1988).

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Date written:
1996
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2007

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  • http://www.australianprints.gov.au/
  • http://www.australianprints.gov.au
Other occupations
  • Tutor
  • Tutor
References [<ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Still life with overtones' poster by Earthworks Poster Collective', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>]
Related people
  • Kerr, Joan (associate of)
  • Vernon, Kay (associate of)
  • Kerr, Joan (associate of)
  • Vernon, Kay (associate of)
Related person groups
  • National Gallery of Australia (associate of)
  • Tin Sheds Gallery (associate of)
  • Watters Gallery (associate of)
  • Earthworks Poster Collective (associate of)
  • National Gallery of Australia (associate of)
  • Tin Sheds Gallery (associate of)
  • Watters Gallery (associate of)
  • Earthworks Poster Collective (associate of)
Related works
  • Canberra Beaches (creator of)
  • Death in Custody (creator of)
  • 'Still life with overtones' poster by Earthworks Poster Collective (creator of)
  • Pow! Never underestimate the power of a woman (creator of)
  • Canberra Beaches (creator of)
  • Death in Custody (creator of)
  • Pow! Never underestimate the power of a woman (creator of)
Related collections
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related events
  • Out of sight, out of mind: Australia's places of confinement, 1788-1988 (exhibited at)
  • Out of sight, out of mind: Australia's places of confinement, 1788-1988 (exhibited at)
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