About
Robert Juniper passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday 20th December 2012 with his wife Patricia and his dog Sasha by his side.
ORDER OF AUSTRALIA
On 26th January 2011 Robert Juniper was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the visual arts.
CURRENT EVENTS
Current Exhibition
Mossgreen Gallery is hosting an exhibition of works by Robert Juniper called "Memorial Exhibition - Final Works from the Artist's Studio" to be held from 4-11th May 2013 at Brans, 30-34 Glyde St, Mosman Park. Works can be viewed online at www.mossgreen.com.au.
Now available ...
Some of Robert's original drawings are now available as a Giclee print. There are several different drawings from which to choose, and these can be seen on our Gallery page. Each one will be in small, limited editions and are in essence unique artworks as each print has a hand watercolour wash applied by the artist. A giclee is a fine art digital print made with pigment ink on acid-proof paper to archival or gallery standards. Our Gallery page shows these drawings in their natural state before the watercolour wash.
Bunbury Cathedral
Robert was commissioned to design the stained glass window walls for the new St Patrick’s Cathedral in Bunbury. The designs are now finished and the building has reached completion. There are 14 window walls each seven metres high plus two Rose windows. Robert was also commissioned to design the five metre wide Tapestry, depicting the Ascension, which is hanging behind the Bishop’s chair. St Patrick’s Cathedral was consecrated on St Patrick’s Day (17th March) 2011.
Book: Robert Juniper
The book "Robert Juniper" is available from The Art Gallery of Western Australia and other major art gallery shops and leading book stores as well as Qdos Gallery, Lorne Victoria.
For more information on any of the above, please email Trish Juniper: trish@robertjuniper.com
ABOUT ROBERT JUNIPER
A West Australian, Juniper studied commercial art and industrial design at Beckenham School of Art, England. He returned to WA in 1949 and taught art. Since 1974, Robert Juniper has devoted himself full-time to painting, sculpting and printmaking.
Recognised as an artist of poetic and spontaneous vision, Juniper has established himself as one of Australia's leading painters. He is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Australian landscape. His main influences range from English painters of the early 1900s, Paul Klee, and Japanese work of the 19th century, through to his contemporary, Australian artist, Sam Fullbrook.
He has had numerous one-person exhibitions throughout Australia. His work can be found in all major Australian public collections. It has been represented in group shows of Australian contemporary art abroad - London, USA, New Zealand (1959 - 1967) and in Europe, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and New Caledonia (1979 - 1998). He has been the recipient of many awards and honours, including the Wynne Prize in 1976 and 1980, and the Mona McCaughey Prize in 1980. For his services to the arts in WA he was awarded a Western Australia Week Council's Citizen of the Year award, 1979, and an honorary doctorate by the University of Western Australia in 1984.
In 1998, along with eleven others, he was presented with a State Living Treasures Award by the Ministry for Culture and the Arts in Western Australia. He was commissioned as the Festival of Perth artist for 1999, the only artist to have been asked twice (the first time was in 1979 at the beginning of David Blenkinsop’s directorship). The Art Gallery of WA held a major survey exhibition of his work in 1999.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1943-47 Commercial Art and Industrial Design, Beckenham School of Art, Kent, UK
1949 Worked in Modelling shop of HB Brady and Co, Perth as Graphic Artist with J Gibbney and Sons
1952-53 Attended lectures at East Sydney Technical College, informally.
TEACHING
1954-56 Perth College, part-time, Art
1956-64 Hale School, full-time, Art
1964-84 Guildford Grammar School, full-time and part-time, Art
ARTS ADMINISTRATION
1957 Perth Group
AWARDS
1954 Perth Prize for Contemporary Art – ‘St Xavier’s Thorn and Fetish’
1957 Perth Prize for Contemporary Art – ‘Seedlings’
1959 Perth Prize for Contemporary Art – ‘Images of Kal’
1959 Rubenstein Travelling Scholarship – ‘Images of Kal’
1960 Perth Prize for Contemporary Art – ‘Yondi Lifts the Sky’
1962 McKellar Hall Prize – Commonwealth Games
1966 TE Wardle Invitation Prize
1976 Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting – ‘Murchison Plain’
1976 Rubenstein Portrait Prize – ‘Portrait of Rose’
1979 Western Australia Week Council’s Citizen of the Year: Arts, Culture and Entertainment Award
1980 Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting – ‘Flood Creek’
1980 Mona McCaughey Prize – ‘Flood Creek’
1984 Honorary Doctorate (D Litt) from the University of Western Australia, Perth
1987 National Heritage Award, Contemporary Division (for stained glass design, three century windows, Holy Trinity Church, York)
1988 Kingfisher Prize – ‘Lunchtime Game at the Johnno’
1998 State Living Treasures Award, Ministry for Culture and the Arts, Western Australia
2003 Centenary Medal for the Federation for Services to Australian Landscape Painting and Contemporary Arts
2004 Awarded medal for the Services to Art, from The Painters and Sculpture Association of Australia
2011 Member of Order of Australia (AM)
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Curtin University Art Collection
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Fremantle Arts Centre
Wollongong City Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Many university, civic, corporate and private collections
