PETER ROBERTSON

1959                Born  Hamilton, Victoria.

1978-80           Sign writing apprenticeship, United Signs, Burwood, Victoria.

1982                Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing, Victoria College, Prahran, Victoria.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011                How is it that you come to be here?, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Vic.

2009                Land Marks, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Vic.

2004                Hover, Spacement, Melbourne, Vic.

                       Beyond Xanadu, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Vic.

2003                Sharpies, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW.

                       Sharpies, Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2002                Sharpies, Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces, Fitzroy, Victoria.

                       Sharpies, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

2001                Sharpies, Curated by Russell Storer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW. (Toured by MCA)

                       Timewise revisited, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria.

                       Blur 3, Rex-Livingston & Corlette, Chippendale, NSW.

2000                Blur 2, PB Gallery, Swinburne TAFE, Prahran, Victoria.

                       Glider, slide installation, Bar 161, Prahran, Victoria.

1998                Flux, warehouse, River Street, South Yarra, Victoria.

                       Detritus, Temple Studio, Prahran, Victoria.

1994                Time After Time, Temple Studio, Prahran, Victoria.

1992                Timewise,  Zero Studios, Malthouse Lane, Melbourne, Victoria.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007                The Schank Show, Paul Morgan Beach House, Cape Schank, Victoria Australia

2005                I’m travellin’ light’ ... ‘No, no, you don’t travel light’, Spacement, Melbourne, Victoria

2004                Surface Tension, Australian Centre for Photography, NSW

                       Freaks, Fiends and Folly, curated by David  H. Thomas, Bright! Gallery, Stkilda, Vic.

2002                Blur, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW.

                       Genus, Patrizia Autore Gallery, StKilda, Victoria

                       White and Black, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Victoria

2001                Office of Utopic Procedures, Co-ordinated by Bernard Sachs, Westspace, Melbourne, Victoria

                       Fundraiser, 1st Floor, Fitzroy, Victoria.

2000                Episode, exhibition & book project with 50 contributors, concept & coordination by Peter Robertson,

                       Patrizia Autore Gallery, StKilda, Victoria

                       Bilateral, (with Andrew Browne), Project Space, RMIT, Cardigan St, Carlton, Victoria

                       Hard Candy, curated by Rozalind Drummond, Westbourne Gardens, London, UK

                       Autumn Exhibition, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria

1994                Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

1993                Diary Show, Linden, Acland Street, StKilda, Victoria.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009                Dan Rule, Around The Galleries, Exhibition Review, The Age, August 8

                       M Magazine, Landmarks, Exhibition Review, The Age, July 26

                       Peter Robertson, Exploring Narrative in Lan Marks Exhibition, Artist’s Statement, September.

2007                Mark Feary, Shore Schank Redemption, Poster Essay

2004                Michael Farrell, hover, written for www.naturalselection.org.nz, issue #4, Autumn 2005,(unpublished).

                       Daniel Palmer and Kate Rhodes, Peter Robertson Beyond Xanadu, Photofile #71, Winter

2003                Mark Gomes, Hetero Camp, Australian Art Collector #23, Jan-Mar

                       Alisdair Foster, Look Sharp, Photofile #69, Aug

2002                Gabriella Coslovich, Q The Interview, artist profile, Agenda, The Sunday Age, March 10.

                       Alison Barclay, Sharp shooting, Herald Sun, March 22.

                       Lucinda Strahan, Sharpies - A Unique Australian Subculture,

                       www.abc.net.au/arts/visual/stories/sharpies, July 11

                       Alexa Moses, Streaks of genius, Sydney Morning Herald, August 3

                       Robert McFarlane, Images for the head, not the heart, Sydney Morning Herald, August 5

                       Fab Five, Brisbane News, December 11

2001               Russell Storer, Sharpies, exhibition catalogue, MCA, Sydney

                      Evelyne Yamine, Other Pictures, Sharpies and Photoworks, report, The Daily Telegraph, November 26.

                      Tim Benzie (editor), in review, Sydney Star Observer, December 6.

                      Hetero Camp, www.absolutearts.com, November 30

2000               Kozminsky Galleries, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria.

                      Nicole Tomlinson, Familiar City, Blur 2 exhibition catalogue,PB Gallery, SwinburneTAFE, Prahran, Vic.

                      Andrew Browne, Bilateral, exhibition catalogue, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria

1994               Peter Cochrane, Archibald Prize, report, Sydney Morning Herald, March 12.

                      Peter Cochrane, Archibald Prize, report, Sydney Morning Herald, March 17.

                      Elwyn Lynn, Archibald Prize, report, The Australian, March 18.

                      Matthew Westwood, Archibald Prize, report, The Australian, March 18.

                      Elizabeth Fortescue, Archibald Prize, report, Daily Telegraph Mirror March 18.

                      Deborah Jones & Matthew Westwood, Archibald Prize, review, The Weekend Australian, March 19&20.

                      Elwyn Lynn, Archibald Prize, review, The Weekend Australian, March 26.

                      Michelle Ronksley, Portrait of the Archibald, Art Monthly, May.

                      Emily Ross, Different Strokes, artist profile, Melbourne Weekly, Aug 30.

                      Elizabeth Rogers, Time After Time, review, Artfan 3+4.

                      Pippa Leary, The Shock of The Nude, Black & White mag., no. 8, August.

1992               Professor Leon van Schaik, Timewise, review, Agenda No 23, May/June.

                      Michael Graf, Timewise, review, The Interior, Vol. 1, No.5&6.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2004                Lives & Works in Melbourne, book of photographs of Melbourne artists,

                       published and photographed by Concettina Inserra,

2001                Sharpies, feature article, Doing Bird, #1.

2000                38 South, RMIT, architecture publication, Melbourne, Victoria. Front cover.

                       Episode, large format artists’ book, with 50 contributors,

                       concept and editing by Peter Robertson, independent publication.

1997                Oedipus Revisited, Temple Studio Publication #19

1996                Our Son Orson, Temple Studio Publication #17

                       Time Revoked/Fever Dreams, Artist Page, Artfan 7+8.