Robyn Backen
| Name | Robyn Backen BVA, MA UNSW |
| Current Role(s) | Coordinator, Master of Studio Art |
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Biography
Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work makes connections between art, science and philosophy. Her installations actively engage with the spaces they inhabit, whether gallery, landscape or building: the site provides the structural and associative framework for both formal and conceptual elements. Backen has a poetic approach which includes topics such as randomness and pattern, body and language, borders and connections, distance and proximity. Backen investigates patterns of language and rhythms of nature to build works which engage with physical space.
Research
Backen's teaching draws upon more than 20 years of research into technology and materials. She has examined the phenomena of change in society and created artworks that often engage with the languages of communication
Significant Exhibitions
Connecting You, Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra, 2010
Mirror<>Mirror: Then and Now, Institute of Modern Art Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, May 2010, April 2010, December 2009
Walls that Whisper, Museum of Australian Democracy, Camberra, 2009
Delicate Balance, Ballast Point Sydney, Sydney Foreshore Authority, 2009 - 2006
It's me … I'm here … where're you, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2007
Yours, Mine, Ours: 50 years of ABC TV, Archive Project, Lewers Bequest, Penrith, 2007 - 2006
Vinculum (Collaboration with John Tonkin), Artspace, Sydney, 2005
Rice Talk, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan, 2003
Imagining Prometheus, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, 2003
Weeping Walls, Sydney International Airport, 2000
Awards & Grants
2008 Australia Council: New Work
2001 National Association of Women in Construction – Acoustic Logic Consultancy, Award for Achievement in Art in the Built Environment
2001 COFA, UNSW: Research Development,
1998 Asia Link Residency, Delhi
1997 Australia Council: New Work
1994 Australia Council: Professional Development
1985 Australia Council: Project
1982 Scholarship Award Salzburg Sommeracademie
1981 Australia Council: Overseas Study
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