Robbie Rowlands
Melbourne, Australia
Education
Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1999
Exchange Program PRATT Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1998
Certificate of Art and Design, Box Hill TAFE, Melbourne, 1989
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Stem. Hazelhurst Gallery, NSW
2012 The Trial, Charlton Courthouse, Vic
2011 The Gardener, Arc One Gallery, Vic
2011 Only 30 - Detroit, Detroit, USA
2010 Grace in Ruin, Gippsland Art Gallery, Vic
2010 Project Space, Arc One Gallery, Vic
2009 The Offering, Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, Link
2008 Disintegration, Place Gallery
2006 Capsize, Diretribe Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Fear Shows, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Navigate, Stok-Yard Studios, Melbourne
2000 Standing with others, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Found, PRATT Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1997 One Dead One Alive, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2012 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation Williamstown
Place of Assembly, School House, Richmond Link
McClelland Sculpture Survey
Fallow, Site intervention, Chapel street StKilda, Link
Nocturnal, City of Greater Dandenong
Arts Burst, City of Stonnington
Insomnia, Set design, Megan Washington, Opera House
2011 Hobart Art Prize, Paper & Wood, Hobart Gallery (Highly Commended)
Art of the ordinary, Arc One Gallery
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, Bristol building intervention, Bell Primary Preston
2010 McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
Wrongtown, House intervention, South Yarra, Melbourne
Toorak Sculpture Prize
SPILL, Arc One Gallery
Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation Williamstown
2009 Critical Fixtures, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
PHM 09, Installation, Amusement center, South Yarra
The Current 08, Parramatta River, Parramatta
PHM AW 08, Installation at 46 Stanley Street, Collingwood
Depot, Installation at Grenda's Bus Depot, Dandenong
2007 Structure, Space and Place, Memorial Tower, Kangaroo Ground
26 Surf Street, Installation at Merricks Beach House, Victoria,
2006 The Current, Melbourne Town Hall
Anti Sedition Show, Powerhouse Museum
NMIT Staff Show, NMIT A-Space Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Moreland Sculpture Show, Melbourne
2004 Anthology of Art, Gropius Bua, Berlin
2003 Fundere Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Environmenta, Round Hills - Moss Vale N.S.W
Awards/Scholarships
2011 Hobart Art Prize, Highly Commended
2010 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, New North Photography Award
2009 Australia Council, New work Grant, Professional
2005 Australia Council, New work Grant, Emerging
2001 Pat Corrigan Artists' Grant
1998 PRATT Institute Exchange Program
1998 Julius Kane Memorial Scholarship
1997 Tina Wentcher Prize
Publications
2013 Fallowed Ground, Art and Events, Vogue Living, Feb-March 2013, pg 61-21
2012 Fallow: Between Abandonment and Rebirth, Monument, Oct 31 2012, Link
2012 Building Reborn, The Age, November 14th 2012, Link
2012 Ball may be over but there's life in the old girl yet, Flinders street art installation,
The Age, John Bailey, Oct 14th 2012, Link
2012 Kevin McCloud's Principles of home: Making a Place to Live
2012 Ball may be over but there's life in the old girl yet, the age, October 14, Page 7 McCloud's Principles of home: Making a Place to Live
2011 New Romantics: Darkness and Light in Australian Art, Simon Gregg, Australian Scholarly Publishing
2011 Erratic; Visual Impact in Current Design, ed. Robert Klanten and Floyd Schulze, Germany
2010 Wrongtown, The Age, The Arts, page 16
2010 Art project inspires documentary, Journal, Fairfax Community News Network, Page 6, May 24, 2010
2009 Moving Through Art, Jonathan Wicken, Trouble, October 2009, Link
2009 illiterate Magazine, Link
2009 A Subtle palimpsest-in-progress in which time slips back to the future, Fances Johnson, The Age, 1/5/2009, Link
2009 Work is a bit off the wall, MX Magazine, April 20, Page 2, 2009
2009 Space Craft 2, Gestalten, Page 268
2009 Penthouse Mouse, March 1, 2009, The Age, M magazine, Penny Modra
2008 The Age Melbourne Magazine, Penny Webb, page 112
2008 Poet of the zeitgeist, Oct 24, 2008, The Age, Ross Moore
2008 Weburbanist, 20 Mind-Bending Architectural Sculptures, Link
2008 Handy Frank, Link
2008 Blanket Magazine, Page 67-68, Link
2008 Grenda's goes back to drawing board, April 12, 2008, The Age, Arts Review, Link
2006 Designs on creative precinct, MX Magazine, April 27, 2006, Page 26, Andy Gillin
2005 Sculptor lets the washing go hang for prize, Moreland Leader , April 25, 2005 Page 9, Julie Best
2002 For those that suffered, Anthology of Art , DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Page 127, Jochen Gerz
2002 Comfort in Sadness, Front cover image, Arena Journal , New Series No. 14 1999/2000