Robert Ewing

The local bushland of Pinjarra and the Darling Range remain the primary source of content referenced within my artworks. Intimate places within these environs are observed and studied to formulate a multi-faceted imaginative landscape composition. The artworks invite us to consider a familiar yet alien landscape populated with anthropomorphic shapes. They are intriguing places of discordant elements where the real and imagined exist within a landscape scarred by the natural and imposed activities of the past. Low and high key colour skilfully combine with a dramatic use of raking light to create vigorous and quiet scenes that are both, subdued and boisterous. The use of expressively bold and nuanced line create artworks with multi-faceted layers of content and interpretation. The artworks present expressions of a landscape where the splendid promise of tomorrow remains as the primary narrative of continuation and hope. These are places of potential, new possibilities and the discovery of the unknown.

PERTH Technical College, WA - 1979, 80 – Art Studies, Part Time,
CLAREMONT School of Art, WA - 1982, 83, 85 (Diploma of F/Art Sculpture)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
84 Praxis Gallery, FREMANTLE, WA
85 Claremont School of Art, CLAREMONT, WA
86 March and November– Tresillian Community Centre, NEDLANDS, WA

2012
SOMEWHERE - Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, MANDURAH, WA

2014
terra INCOGNITA - Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, BUNBURY, WA

2016
CURIOUS intimacies – Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

86
PERTH Contemporary Art Society - FREMANTLE Art Gallery, WA

88
Spoleto Fringe Festival- Mission Arts Centre, MELBOURNE, VIC (4-person group show)
Artists’ Choice, Stanfield Gallery, MELBOURNE, VIC

91
Art for Heart’s Sake Exhibition, PERTH Entertainment Centre, WA

92
Metamorphis Festival Fringe, PERTH Museum, WA

93
SH Ervine Gallery, (Archibald Prize - Salon De Refuse), SYDNEY, NSW
ALBANY Art Prize exhibition (Award for best oil/acrylic), ALBANY, WA

04
ALBANY Art Prize exhibition (Highly commended - painting), ALBANY, WA

03/04/05
Minnawarra Art Award (Invitational), ARMADALE, WA

05
Casterways Invitational Sculptural Awards (Major award) – ROCKINGHAM, WA

09
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art prize (Invitational), BRISBANE, QLD

2010...