Contact: rccle1@optusnet.com.au
Robert Cleworth
Born 1965, Wallaroo, South Australia
Education
1993 BA (Visual), Canberra School of Art, ITA
Group Exhibitions
2018 Batavia: Giving Voice to the Voiceless, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
2017 Batavia: Giving Voice to the Voiceless, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA
2017 Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean World, WA Maritime Museum, WA
2016 Miniature Immensities, Kingston Art Centre, Vic
2015 B5761626572, M16 Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Robert Cleworth, Hamilton Darroch, Christopher Preussman, Derek O'Connor, Paul Uhlmann
2015 art blender, the lock up, Newcastle, NSW
2015 negotiated identities, Rob Cleworth & Susan Ryman, Newcastle Art Space : gallery 2, NSW
2015 Stations of the Cross 2015, Wesley Church Perth, WA
2014 Mine Own Executioner, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
2013 Pure Contemplation Without Knowledge 5, Nyisztor Studio, Perth, WA
2009 Connection, Nyisztor Studio, Perth, WA
2009 Pure Contemplation Without Knowledge 1, Nyisztor Studio, Perth, WA
2008 Break, Nyisztor Studio, Perth, WA
2004 Outlook, works from the City of Bunbury Art Collection, Vasse Felix, WA
2004 South West Survey, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA
2003 Dark Places, Legge Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Edith Cowan University Staff Show, Spectrum Gallery, Perth, WA
2000 Flesh and Veil: Drawings by Robert Cleworth and Paul Uhlmann, The Verge, Perth, WA
1997 Love Machine, Stripp, Melbourne, Vic
1996 A Matter of Making – Canberra School of Art Alumni, Canberra School of Art Gallery, ACT
1995 Drawings Part A, Legge Gallery
1994 Artists Don’t Believe in Sanity Claus, Legge Gallery
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
1993 The Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship – Selected Works, The Art Museum,
University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Between Surfaces – Notes on Painting, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA
2002 Three kinds of abstraction, Legge Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001 Paintings and Drawings, Legge Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 Remembering the Body, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide, SA
1996 Dirty Surface – Paintings and photographs by Robert Cleworth and Derek O’Connor, Stripp, Melbourne
1996 First Love: Paintings by Robert Cleworth and Derek O’Connor, Legge Gallery
1995 Paintings and Photographs, Legge Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1993 Paintings and Drawings, Legge Gallery
1993 Paintings and Drawings, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Awards
1993 Glasgow School of Art Study Scholarship
1993 The Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The University of Western Australia Art Collection, WA
City of Greater Geraldton Art Collection, WA
City of Bunbury Art Collection, WA
City of Prospect Collection, Adelaide, SA
The Horn Collection, WA
Private Collections
Commissions
2009 After the Batavia, a commission by the City of Greater Geraldton-Greenough, WA
Media
Coleman, S (2017). Batavia: giving voice to the voiceless. Art Guide, http://artguide.com.au/Batavia-1629-giving-voice-to-the-voiceless
Gartner, A (2017). Batavia beyond the grave. The Western Australian newspaper
Wattel, Arvi (2017). Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/picturing-the-unimaginable-a-new-look-at-the-wreck-of-the-batavia-84269
A matter of making: CSA Alumni (Part 1), 1996, Canberra School of Art Gallery
Bromfield, D (2002). APROPOS of a Sex Scene in Bunbury. http://members.iinet.net.au/~postpub/8ball/issue%2038/
Chapman, C (1998). Some Notes on Pornography, Contemporary Art and Social Politics, Artlink, Vol. 18, no. 3.
Wolfe, R (1993). Samstag: the first millenium. http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstag/scholars/essays/93wolfe.asp
