Artist:
Brian Robinson
Art is everything; art is my life. I create art, speak about art, write about art, and when I sleep I dream about art, I would eat art if I could. My drive as an artist is the creation and conceptualisation of art, and as artists—visually and mentally enhanced individuals—we see the world as how it should be and not as it is. I have been creating art for that long now that I couldn’t imagine life without it.
I often say that I was born with a pencil in my hand because I gravitated to art at a very young age. No flat surface was taboo … I drew on, painted on, spray painted on and marker penned everything—paper, cardboard, plastic, walls in the house, the backyard fence, windows, basketball backboards … you name it, I drew on it. If compared to a graffiti artist, my tags were everywhere.
Torres Strait culture has been infused within my arts practice for some time now, which I often draw upon when creating works of art. It provides the core inspiration that grounds my work but from time to time this focus shifts from Islander-centric themes to a more global view of cultural ideas and objects—hybrid imagery that infuses Indigenous Australian culture with a global exchange of ideologies that reinvigorates contemporary arts practice and traditional storytelling.
Photo: Naomi Mossenson
Brian Robinson
(Maluyligal/Wuthathi/Dayak peoples)
Custodian of the Blooms 2014
Purchased 2016. This acquisition has been supported by John and Janet Calvert-Jones to mark Mr Calvert-Jones' tenure on Council and in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.
Brian Robinson
(Maluyligal/Wuthathi/Dayak peoples)
Picasso’s Lagau Minaral (Picasso's island designs) 2016
Courtesy of the artist.
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