CV | Robert Hirschmann

Born  
1968 Narembeen, Western Australia
   
Studies,  Work & Travel
2000-pres. Lives and works, North East Victoria
1999-01 Travel; Western Australia
1998 Travel; Outback Australia
1998-01 Lived and worked, Melbourne
1996 Travel; Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Paris
1993-97 Lived and worked, Sydney
1992 Travel; New York
1991-92 Lived and worked, Wedderburn, NSW
1989-90 Diploma of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney
1998-89 Travel, Papua New Guinea
1987 Travel; Papua New Guinea
1986-87 Certificate in Painting, Liverpool College of TAFE, Sydney
   
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Local Roots Marios Cafe, Fitzroy, Victoria 
2009 Neimandsland King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2007 Paintings Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
  Paintings King Street Gallery on William
  Paintings 1996-2008 @ silvershot, Melbourne
2006 Paintings Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art @ silvershot, Melbourne
  Paintings Booth’s Taminick Cellars, Taminick
2005 paintings king street gallery on burton, sydney
  Paintings Booth’s Taminick Cellars, Taminick
2004 Paintings Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2003 paintings king street gallery on burton
2001 paintings and sculpture king street gallery on burton
2000 Paintings Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Span Galleries
1999 paintings king street gallery on burton
1997 paintings, drawings & sculpture king street gallery on burton
1995 drawings 1990-‘95 Renwick Street Studios in association with king street gallery on burton
1994 paintings & drawings king street gallery on burton
1992 paintings and drawings king street gallery on burton
1991 drawings king street gallery on burton
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Everything and Nothing King Street Gallery on William, Sydney 
2008 Laverty Collection Union Club, Sydney
  Fleurieu Biennale Landscape Prize. South Australia
  Abstraction 7 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
  Contemporaneous Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta, Vic
  Outskirts Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Benalla, Vic
2007 Artists for Kids Cultural Trust Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006 afilla landscapes king street gallery on burton
  Artist’s for Kids Culture Trust Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2005 The Year In Art SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2004 last show of the year king street gallery on burton
2003 last show of the year king street gallery on burton
2002 A Silver Lining & A New Beginning Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney
  International Works on Paper Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne
2001 A Century of Collecting: 1901-2001 Ivan Dougherty Gallery
  Abstraction: Spirit, Light, Pure Form (curated by Charlie Sheard), Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
  Artists for Kids Culture Trust MIRA Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Melbourne Art Fair 2000 (king street gallery), Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
  On the Brink: Abstraction of the 90’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Vic
  things of wood king street gallery on burton
  The Continental Cafe, Melbourne
  last show of the year king street gallery on burton
1999 Contemporary (a selection of work from the Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection), UTS Gallery, UNSW, Sydney
1998 last show of the year king street gallery on burton
1997 a fine line king street gallery
1996 horizon line (curated & exhibited with: John Adair, Jay Balbi, James Jones, Chris Langlois, Francesca Raft, Phillip Wolfhagen, Emma Walker), king street gallery
  Abstraction Now Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic (touring to regional galleries throughout Australia)
  gallery artists king street gallery on burton
1994 Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4 (king street gallery), Melbourne Exhibition Building
  gallery artists king street gallery on burton
1993 gallery artists king street gallery on burton
1992 Terracollaboratis (curated & exhibited with: Elisabeth Cummings, Roy Jackson, James Jones, John Peart, Geoffrey Russell), king street gallery on burton
1991 Microcosm Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1990 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney
  Windsor & Newton Art Awards Coventry Gallery, Sydney
  Graduate Exhibition Cell Block Theatre
1984 National Art Award Civic Centre, Canberra, ACT
   
Awards  
1990 The Gruner Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1985 Finalist, National Art Award, South Australian State Award
1984 Winner, National Art Award, South Australian State Award
   
Collections  
  Allen Arthur Robinson Sydney
  Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  Arthur Roe & Associates, Melbourne
  La Trobe University Museum Gallery
  Atanaskovic & Hartnell P/L, Sydney
  Macquarie Bank, Australia
  Benalla Regional Art Gallery
  National Art School, Sydney
  Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery
  University of Technology, Sydney
  Galbally Rolfe Solicitors, Melbourne
  University of Wollongong, NSW
  Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Vic
  Laverty Collection, Sydney
   
Bibliography  
2009 Kidd, Courtenay: ‘The Two Roberts,’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 pp90-91
  ‘The Planner,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, May 2-3 2009, p6
2008 Kotsios, Natalie: ‘Reading Between the Lines,’ The Chronicle, Wangaratta, May 21
2003 Spotlight, Sydney Morning Herald, June 3
2001 Sheard, Charlie: ‘Abstraction-Spirit, Light, Pure Form,’ exhibition catalogue, published by Tim Olsen Gallery
  Hynes, Victoria: ‘Light Brigade,’ Metro-Sydney Morning Herald, June 26, p 26
2000 Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector, Issue 11, Jan-Mar, p 75
  Taylor, Roger: ‘In Search of the Finished Painting,’ Asian Art News, Vol 10, Nov-Dec, pp 70-73
  Nelson, Robert: ‘Shock of the moo,’ Nov
  Illustration, Art & Australia, Vol 38, No 1, p 1
  Art & Australia, Vol 37, No 4, p 592
1999 Smee, Sebastian: ‘Cereal Murderer,’ Arts-Sydney Morning Herald, June 22, p 11
1997 Illustration: The Festival of the Dreaming, Art & Australia, Vol 35, No 1, p 1
  Smee, Sebastian: 180 Degrees of Separation, The Sydney Morning Herald Metro, June 28
1994 Dellaruelle, Jacques: ‘Hegemonic hype,’ The Sydney Review, Nov, p 10
  McDonald, John: ‘Recognition at last for a founding member of Queensland Colonial Art,’ Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 29 p 3
1984 McGrath, Sandra: The Weekend Australian, June 28/29
  Boylan, Louise: The Australian Review, June 12