Biography | Leo Robba
Leo
Robba is an artist, writer and curator who was born in Bundaberg, Queensland,
in 1962.
He
has also written for the Sydney Morning Herald and Artist Profile Magazine and
has curated many exhibitions featuring landscape painting. He is also wider
recognised for organising and leading art expeditions to remote and iconic
destinations.
He
has a Masters of Fine Art at Newcastle University exploring the topic
“Regionalism in Australian Landscape Painting.”
He
is currently doing research as part of his Phd scholarship at the ANU,
Canberra, the topic “A Changing View: Environment and the Contested Space in
Australian Landscape Painting.”
He
graduated from the Queensland College of Art in1982 and moved to Sydney in
1983.
Leo
has had over thirty solo exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand and has taken
part in numerous group exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
His
work is represented in many private and public collections, including Maitland
Regional Gallery, Brisbane City Hall Gallery, National Gallery of Australia,
New England Region Art Gallery and Museum, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery and
the University of Newcastle and the Bundanon Collection.
He
is now represented by King Street Gallery on William, Sydney and lives and
works in Springwood, in the Blue Mountains.
Follow us