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Robert Boynes
Exhibitions
> 25 October - 11 November 2006
Born in Adelaide in 1942, Robert Boynes specialised in painting and printmaking at the South Australian School of Art from 1962–64, before embarking upon studies in film at Flinders University, South Australia (1974). He has held positions as a lecturer at various tertiary art institutions including Wattle Park Teacher’s College, Adelaide; Maidstone College of Art and Basingstoke Technical College, United Kingdom; and in 1978, moved to Canberra where he became Senior Lecturer at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University and has subsequently been appointed Head of Painting.
Since his first exhibition at Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide in 1966, Robert has held more than fifty solo exhibitions throughout the world. Particularly notable among his more recent shows are Street Stories, Beaver Galleries, Canberra (2007); Robert Boynes, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2006); True Fictions, Canberra Museum and Gallery (2005); and another ten-year survey at the Austral Gallery, St Louis, United States (1999); as well as Paintings 1979 – 1995, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne (1995); and Urban Simulations, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (1995).
Robert has also participated in several important group exhibitions, both locally and abroad, including the Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (2005); Interesting Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005); Tales of the Unexpected, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2002); Fieldwork: Contemporary Australian Art in the NGV 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2002); the Clemenger Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2002); and Sydney Metropolis, Museum of Sydney, Sydney (1999 - 2000).
His work is widely acclaimed and features in all the major state, regional and university galleries throughout Australia, as well as prominent corporate collections including BHP Billiton, Melbourne; IBM, Sydney; Westfield, Sydney; and the Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne. Significantly, he is also widely represented internationally in the prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Late Harold Mertz Collection, University of Texas, Fort Worth; the Raymond Burr Collection, California; Westpac, New York; and Sears Roebuck, California.
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Links
> http://www.robertboynes.com/robertboynes/