Background
Charles Robb is a practicing artist and an Associate Lecturer in Art and Design where he co-ordinates the second year Visual Art studio program.
Charles’s work has been exhibited at major Australian venues including
- the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
- the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Awards
- 2005: selected for the National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Prize
- 2001, 2002 and 2005: short-listed three times for the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
- recipient of Project Grants from both Arts Queensland and the Australia Council
- 2006: awarded the Australia Council Studio Residency at the Cite des Internationales in Paris.
- 2001: received a Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship to research Baroque sculpture in Spain.
In addition to appearing in catalogues, his work has been reviewed in
- Art and Australia
- Artlink
- Art Monthly
- Australian Art Collector
- Broadsheet
- Eyeline
- World Sculpture News
- Contemporary.
His writing has been published in
- Photofile
- Eyeline
- Machine
- unMagazine.
Charles co-ordinates the Visual Arts Studio Teaching research project and has published on the challenges posed by the ‘post-studio’ approaches to art-making. He is currently an Expert Assessor in the field of visual art with Arts Queensland.
Research interests
- contemporary sculpture
- the portrait bust
- the commemorative statue
- self-portraiture
- autogeneity in contemporary art practice.
This information has been contributed by Mr Charles Robb.
