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CURRENT EVENTS
The new book Robert Juniper is available from The Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Robert has also decorated a fibreglass cow for the Margaret River Cow Parade. His cow, along with nearly 100 other cows, will be displayed throughout the Margaret River region until July 2010, when the cows will be auctioned and the money raised will be given to charity. The ABC have filmed some of the painting of Robert's cow, called Acer, and you will be able to view this on ABC1 on Sunday 14th March 2010 at 5.30pm on "Art Nation".
Fans of Robert may also want to keep an eye on the progress of the new Bunbury Cathedral. Robert has been commissioned to design the stained glass window walls for the Cathedral. Work on the building is well under way, and the windows are expected to be installed towards the end of July 2010.
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
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
Some of Robert's work may be viewed at:
Greenhill Galleries, WA www.greenhillgalleries.com.au
Wagner Art Gallery, NSW www.wagnerartgallery.com.au
Solander Gallery, ACT www.solander.com.au
Framed Gallery, NT www.framed.com.au
