Cameron Robbins
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Born Melbourne, Australia 1963
Lives and works in Melbourne

Education
1989-90 Graduate Diploma [Sculpture] Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1983-5 Bachelor of Arts [Sculpture] RMIT, Melbourne

Awards
1993 Highly Commended, Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
1989 Diamond Valley Art Award

Recent Employment
1996-current Co-Director, Down Street Studios – art partnership for public projects
2000-current Sculpture Lecturer, RMIT Public Art Unit, External MA Assessor
1999 Experimental drawing tutor, CAE
1999 Selection panel for Texture , art program at Southgate
1998 Organising committee for Construction in Process:The Bridge international art event
1995-8 Metalworker, Mark Douglass Design
1995-7 Technical tutor, Landscape Design and Architecture, RMIT

Solo Exhibitions
2005 Bright Gallery, Melbourne Survey
1999 LaTrobe Regional Gallery, VIC Metafluidology
1998 “h” Melbourne The Inevitable Gravity
1997 Gomboc Sculpture Park, WA Feasting the Land
1996 Claremont School of Art, WA The Medium for the Binary Opposites
1995 Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne Birdmapman out West
1995 Artspace, Sydney The Time Image curated by Abby Mellick
1993 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery An Inch An Hour A Year
1993 Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth Drawing Machines
1992 Temple Gallery, Melbourne An Inch An Hour A Year 5 Months In
1990 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery The Wind Drawings

Major Commissions, Residencies and Projects
2005 City of Frankston, VIC Solar Calendar with Down Street Studios
2004-5 City of Melbourne, VIC CH2 Double Vortex
2003 City of Manningham, VIC Bolin Bolin Eel
2003 City of Frankston, VIC Sweetwater Creek–Windicator with Down Street Studios
2003 City of Melbourne, VIC Laneways Project Weather Harp with David Murphy
2002 City of Yarra, VIC Collingwood Housing Estate Arts Precinct Project
2002 Elliston, SA The Sea Wailing Pipe Organ and Wind Drawings
2001 City of Hobson's Bay, VIC Time Beacon and Insect Survey Altona Park Commission
2001 City of Hobson's Bay, VIC Olive's Corner Memorial Port Melbourne
2001 Arts Victoria Double Venturi Art and Music Installations, co-curator
2000 RMIT Xianjung Council In The Field Xianjung, central China
1999-2000 Borough of Queenscliffe, VIC Millenium Fire Sculptures NYE2K with Down Street Studios
1999 City of Darebin Shadow Creek with Down Street Studios
1998 Construction in Process VI ‘The Bridge' Double Venturi Steam Organ
1998 City of Banyule, VIC Olympic Village Wall Sculpture with Down Street Studios
1998 City of Darebin, VIC Remnant Bush Signifier with Down Street Studios
1997 Southgate [Byvan] The Well with Down Street Studios
1997 Southgate [Byvan] Melbourne World-Food City with Down Street Studios
1997 Midland College of TAFE, WA
1997 Southgate [Byvan] Southgate Global Xmas with Down Street Studios
1996 Beachport, SA Community Festival by the Sea
1996 Claremont School of Art, WA
1995 Southgate [Byvan] Kinetic Global Xmas with Down Street Studios
1994 Geelong Grammar School, VIC Sundial with Catherine Clover
1991-3 Barwon Valley, VIC Spiral Aqueduct Community Project with David H Thomas and David Waters
1992 Wooster St Gallery, New York, US Spiral Aqueduct Public Art Seminar
1992 Nelson, VIC Drawing Machine
1991 Barcaldine, QLD Australian Workers Heritage Centre
1991 Berri, SA Art Utes with David Murphy
1991 Birchip, VIC Mallee Bull with Paul Quinn, Jake Novick and Grant Fink
1990 Roslyn Primary School, Geelong, VIC with David H Thomas and Roger Beeston
1986 Darryl Jackson Architects, Melbourne, VIC

Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Falls Creek VIC Inaugural Artists' Camp curated by David H Thomas
2005 Geelong Art Gallery VIC Gnotuk-Art, Science and Place curated by Anna Clabburn
2005 New Quay, Melbourne Contempora 2 curated by Malcolm Thompson
2004 Monash University, VIC Switchback Gallery Geometer curated by David H Thomas
2004 Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne The UFO Show curated by David Waters
2004 Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Wet and Dry curated by Anderson Hunt
2004 Elliston, SA Sculpture on the Cliffs Festival Wind Monitors Sweeping curated by Siv Grava and John Turpie
2004 Dantes Gallery, Melbourne Elementum curated by Denis Chapman
2003 Bright Gallery, Melbourne Geometer curated by David H Thomas
2003 Artists for Kids' Culture Trust
2002 Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne New Works
2001 Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Four-Sided Triangle
1999 Lover Gallery, Melbourne h group show
1999 Monash University Gallery, VIC Natural Disasters, Disasters unnatural
1999 McLelland Gallery, VIC Organic with Peter Graham
1998 Linden Gallery, Melbourne 4x2 Six Extension Maps with Peter Graham
1998 The George Gallery, Melbourne Speed Show
1995 Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT The Hand of the Machine curated by Lindsay Dunbar
1995 Stop 22, Melbourne Steam curated by Marion Harper/Rosalind Drummond
1994 M15 Southgate, Melbourne Elements curated by Catherine Clover
1994 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Power & Site curated by Rachel Kent
1994 Westspace, Melbourne Option curated by Brett Jones
1994 Roar 2 Studios, Melbourne Landscape and Small Works
1992 Collins Street, Melbourne No Vacancy
1992 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Slide
1992 41 Gold Street Gallery, Melbourne Spoke curated by Louise Hall
1992 World Congress Centre, Melbourne The Interactive Imagination curated by Natalie Jerimijenko
1992 Museum of Modern Art at Heide Dame Edna Regrets curated by Ken Scarlett
1991 Scienceworks, Melbourne Invention
1991 Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne VCA Postgraduate Show
1991 Spencer St Station, Melbourne Platform curated by Andy Seward
1991 Banana Alley, Melbourne Synchronised World Concerns
1991 Graduate Art Gallery, VCA, Melbourne Nelson Boatshed
1989 Diamond Valley Art Award, VIC Acquisitive Prize
1988 ACCA, Melbourne Site of Execution
1988 Linden Gallery, Melbourne St Kilda Festival Acquisitive Art Prize
1985 RMIT, Melbourne Graduate Exhibition
1985 Roar Studios, Melbourne Lemniscate
1985 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VIC Sculpturescape

Radio Interviews
2001 Roger Taylor 3RRR
1993 Mary Lou Jelbart Radio National Arts Today
1993 Hugo Leschen 3PBS
1993 Roger Taylor 3RRR
1991 Central Queensland Radio National
1984 Roger Taylor 3RRR

Collections
Holmes a Court Collection, WA
Midland College of TAFE, WA
Western Australian School of Art and Design, WA
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA
Darryl Jackson Architects PTY LTD, VIC
Scienceworks, Museum of Victoria, VIC
Diamond Vallery Art Award Collection, VIC
Jim and Curtis Sinatra