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Dr Sarah Robinson is an artist and independent creative practice-led researcher, born in Wells, Somerset, UK and now based in Perth, WA. Since studying printmaking at Royal College of Art in London, Robinson has lectured Higher Education and was a founder member of ArtLab Contemporary Print Studio, UK. Her PhD was conferred by Edith Cowan in 2017 with a APA Scholarship and ECU Excellence Award. Intrinsic to her creative practice-led research Robinson endeavours to ask complex questions that challenge our ways of seeing in an overly digital world.
Exhibiting internationally, awards include a Highly Commended, Print International (2013), Oriel Wrexham, UK, and a Fremantle Print Award finalist (2021, 2014) with a solo show Potentially Dangerous (2019) at THE LOBBY, WA. Robinson has presented her research both nationally and internationally including IMPACT 11 (2022), AAANZ Conference (2017, 2013) IMPACT10 (2018), Society for Literature, Science & the Arts Conference (2015) and CREATEC (2014). She has been awarded two joint and one independent DLGSC Research and Creative Development Grants. She works as an independent researcher and has founded the NeoEvolution Print Space. Robinson is currently collborating on the international project Canopies and Cathedrals: A Culturally Blended Soundscape and Contemporary Print ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2270-4178 |
Recent Exhibitions
Solo
2019 Potentially Dangerous, The Lobby, 11A Rob Roy Street, Swanbourne, WA, 6010
2015 Imperceptible Realities, PhD exhibition, Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University, WA
2014 Eyes Open (i) Drawing in The Dark, Crystal Cave, Yanchep National Park, WA
Selected Collaborative
2020 Hybrids, IMPACT 12, Curated by Aleksandra Janik, (Professor ot Art, The E.Geppert Academy of Art & Design,Wroclaw, Poland), UK
2022 Sydney Contemporary, PAPER,Transmedial, Carriageworks, AU
2022 Seven Forms (Collie ’22), Collie Art Gallery, WA
2022 Rising Futures, Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery,WA
2022 Carbon-Voices-Borders, Online
2020 Talking Place: Emerging Connections, Gallery 25, Edith Cowan University, WA
2019 Talking Place: Unfolding Conversations, The Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, WA
2018 Talking Place, Palacete del Embarcadero, Spain
2017 Destabilising Walls, PSAS, Fremantle, WA
2017 Thresholds and Thoughtscapes, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA
2019 Potentially Dangerous, The Lobby, 11A Rob Roy Street, Swanbourne, WA, 6010
2015 Imperceptible Realities, PhD exhibition, Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University, WA
2014 Eyes Open (i) Drawing in The Dark, Crystal Cave, Yanchep National Park, WA
Selected Collaborative
2020 Hybrids, IMPACT 12, Curated by Aleksandra Janik, (Professor ot Art, The E.Geppert Academy of Art & Design,Wroclaw, Poland), UK
2022 Sydney Contemporary, PAPER,Transmedial, Carriageworks, AU
2022 Seven Forms (Collie ’22), Collie Art Gallery, WA
2022 Rising Futures, Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery,WA
2022 Carbon-Voices-Borders, Online
2020 Talking Place: Emerging Connections, Gallery 25, Edith Cowan University, WA
2019 Talking Place: Unfolding Conversations, The Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, WA
2018 Talking Place, Palacete del Embarcadero, Spain
2017 Destabilising Walls, PSAS, Fremantle, WA
2017 Thresholds and Thoughtscapes, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA
Projects in Progress
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2022 - Ongoing Canopies and Cathedrals: A Culturally Blended Soundscape and Contemporary Print
Sound • Gothic Writing • Printmaking • Videography • Electronic Composition • Digital Technology •Transmedial Presentation This project is an exploration of unique aspects of Perth’s St George's Cathedral and one of the oldest Gothic cathedrals in the world, Wells Cathedral (UK.) A collaboration David Carson and Dr Sarah Robinson - West Australian artists, and MPM (a UK based electronic music ensemble) to create a culturally blended soundscape from the environs of both locations; to evoke our shared communal, economic and environmental ecologies. The blending of environments across continents will magnify what is distinctive, similar and exigent about being Human. A place-making project that encourages us to perceive our world though a creative lens. Image: Sarah Robinson, Singing Through Architecture, (2022). Work in progress: image taken at Wells Catherdral 2022. 2019 - Ongoing Carbon Synthesis
A collaborative research project between art and science with Independent Researcher Dr Sarah Robinson, artist /academic Dr Donna Franklin (AU), and Research Associate, Tracy Hill, from the University of Central Lancashire (UK) together generate a transdisciplinary practice. Each investigator brings a unique perspective to monitor data that affords innovative ways of witnessing climate change. Key Words: Carbon, Peat, Digital, Life, Phenology, Rhythms, Surveillance, Mapping https://www.carbon-borders-voices.com/franklin-hill-robinson Holding A Cloud when there aren’t any 2023, Sarah Robinson. Work in Progress, smoked using wax tapers for etching plate preparation, and Microbiological Skin - Courtesy of Micro be, Cass and Franklin 2022 |
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Carbon Synthesis: Mummerings and Aerosols
During a recent walk on the shore of the Creery Wetlands (Mandurah, Western Australia), the landscape revealed to Robinson a Water Cloud through the trees (Figure 3). This nonhuman low-level flickering yet digital-like cloud creates a human encroachment on wetland edgings. The land-locked apparition marks a border between a human community and a breathing green nonhuman alga bloom covering depressions in the wetlands. As a result of the chemical runoff effects of human pollution, these algae blooms ebb and flow across the landscape. Water Cloud (I), Creery Wetlands, WA, Sarah Robinson 22/09/2021 |
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Carbon Synthesis:
Synthesising Carbon (2021), during a SymbioticA Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts residency, Franklin and Robinson Franklin and Robinson, (2020) Removing right nostril from Pig Snout and Hematoxylin and Van Gieson's stain to visualise muscle fibres. Histology assistance from Mary Lee. Images courtesy of the artists. |
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