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Dr Sarah Robinson is an artist and independent creative practice-led researcher, curator and project manager 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 an APA Scholarship and ECU Excellence Award. Intrinsic to her creative practice-led research Robinson endeavors to ask complex questions that challenge our ways of seeing in an overly digital world. In 2022, she curated Rising Futures and in 2021 co-curated Transmedial: Expanding Technologies in Contemporary Printmaking.
Exhibiting internationally, awards include a Highly Commended, Print International (2013), Oriel Wrexham, UK, and a Fremantle Print Award finalist (2021, 2014) with a recent solo show Pro-JECTA: If Finds Could Talk (2024) at The Rockingham Arts Centre, WA. Robinson has presented her research both nationally and internationally including a co-authored paper: Transmedial Aesthetics: Printmaking Re-forms Senses in a Technological World. The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts (2022), IMPACT 11 (2022), AAANZ Conference (2017, 2013) IMPACT10 (2018). She has been awarded five joint and one independent DLGSC Research and Creative Development Grants. In 2019, Robinson founded the NeoEvolution PrintSpace to articulate the technological shifts that affect traditional and digital methods of viewing the world and provide mentorship for others. She is currently a Print Council of Australia, WA committee representative with her works held in collections in the UK, WA, and China. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2270-4178 |
Recent Exhibitions
Solo
2024 Pro-JECTA: If Finds Could Talk, Rockingham Arts Centre, WA
2019 Potentially Dangerous, The Lobby, 11A Rob Roy Street, Swanbourne, WA
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
2024 Australian Printmaking Now, Whitehorse Artspace, VIC
2024 The AI Machine, Nyisztor Studio,Perth, WA
2024 AI in Print, The Print Council of Australia gallery, Melbourne, AU
2022 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
2024 Pro-JECTA: If Finds Could Talk, Rockingham Arts Centre, WA
2019 Potentially Dangerous, The Lobby, 11A Rob Roy Street, Swanbourne, WA
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
2024 Australian Printmaking Now, Whitehorse Artspace, VIC
2024 The AI Machine, Nyisztor Studio,Perth, WA
2024 AI in Print, The Print Council of Australia gallery, Melbourne, AU
2022 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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2024 - ongoing A Climate Trilogy: Moss-Lichen-Fungus: Collaborative Project
After a recent research fieldtrip to the sub-arctic, Finland, this project builds upon a joint Ars Bioarctica Residency Program with fieldwork undertaken during September 2024 at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, with two other established artists, Tracy Hill based the Uk and Dr Donna Franklin working in WA. This project is a depository of climate change knowledge created by three contemporary artists, through a significant creative response to the impacts of global disturbances on Northern and Southern ecosystems. Video 1 : (Opposite) Fielding (i) 2024,Videographer Tracy Hill Video 2: (Opposite) (ii) 2024, Videographer Tracy Hill 2022 - Ongoing Canopies and Cathedrals: A Culturally Blended Soundscape Contemporary Print and 360 degree Video
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. Top Image: Sarah Robinson, Tracing Histories (2022). Work in progress: image taken at Wells Cathedral 2022. Bottom left: Sarah Robinson, Tracing Histories 2022). Studio Work in progress-graphite drawing on plaster Bottom right: Sarah Robinson, Tracing Histories (2022). Still from video, taken at Wells Cathedral 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, Robinson and Franklin 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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