The Artist
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Ron Robertson-Swann
Pink Alice, 1968
SOLD
acrylic on cotton duck
259.00 x 104.80
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Ron Robertson-Swann, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, 1969 or 70;
Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 26 April - 19 May, 2018, no. 6;
Ron Robertson-Swann: Radiant Colour, Clarity, and Crisp Light in Embraced Space, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 11 August - 1 September, 2018, no. 19
Note:
Born in Sydney in 1941, Robertson-Swann began his almost six-decade long career studying under Lyndon Dadswell at Sydney’s National Art School (1957-59). Moving to the UK in the 1960s, his studies continued under Anthony Caro and Philip King at London’s Saint Martin’s School of Art (1962), then as assistant to Henry Moore (1963-65). His early career comprised painting influenced by hard edge abstraction and the work of US artist Morris Louis. In 1965, US art critic Clement Greenberg awarded Robertson-Swann First Prize in Liverpool’s John Moore Painting Prize (Junior). On returning to Australia (1968), he was included in the significant National Gallery of Victoria’s opening exhibition ‘The Field’ (1968) and in 1969 he won Sydney’s Transfield Art Prize. His sculpture practice grew through public commissions, including the continuously controversial ‘VAULT’ (1978). Various national and international lecturing positions ended with his role as Sydney’s NAS Head of Sculpture (2009-2018).
Further works by the Artist
Blazes Boylan
Ron Robertson-Swann
1995
acrylic, pumice and balsawood on canvasboard, 39.00 x 30.00
Price: $3,300
Saint Crispin's Day
Ron Robertson-Swann
2005
acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 110.00 x 14.50
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.