Donna Maree Robinson
Digital Artist, Painter & Photographer (Sarina, QLD)

Donna is an experienced painter having completed many commissioned portraits and landscapes over the last 22 years. Her experimentation with many different types of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and assemblages led to the natural transition into more abstract work. Manipulating layers of photographs with Photoshop much like paint has been the predominent medium used in her work for the last 3 years.

Artists Statement:

Over the years my work has evolved from realism into abstraction, nature now providing the patterns that I work with.  My work is based upon the beaches and rivers that I live near in Queensland. Tides here are in a constant state of flux and change – with every tide brings the flotsam and jetsam of humanity – evidence of our existence within the natural world. I am attracted to the aesthetics of these objects, their provenance and the mystery that surrounds their past. I am also interested in what is happening above the horizon and what I imagine is below, as if there is a need to expose what is submerged beneath the water -the unknown factor of 'what lies beneath'. Explorations in creating luminosity, atmosphere and light within the skies are in direct contrast with the mysteries of the depths below.  My found objects enlarged out of proportion against this topography - juxtaposition between the mythical and the real, one that crosses over into the imagination and allows us to perceive what might be there depending on the condition of the day, whether it is covered in the dark blanket of night or absorbing the soaking rain from the clouds above.

Objects that are normally considered to be threats to the world’s marine eco systems are transmogrified into vibrant scenes; intolerable beauties that become metaphors for my own experiences; images that not only evoke sky, water and earth but are also infused with a sense of myself; altered realities that are as much about what I see as a spectator of these objects as they are about my own memories, everyday life experiences and the nostalgia of childhood - they hold an ambiguity.

For information on how to purchase / commission my work, please contact me below or call 07 4943 0717 during business hours. Gallery enquiries welcome.

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QUALIFICATIONS
Master of Contemporary Arts, University of Tasmania [High Distinction]
Computer Imaging, University of Tasmania [Distinction]
Certificate IV Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, CQIT
Certificate IV Training and Assessment, CQIT [Pending]

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010   Perspectives [duo exhibiton], Gargett Gallery and Studio, Gargett Qld
2010   Strata’s Edge, Seek Fine Art, Paddington, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
2009   Strata’s Edge, Gallery 1/147 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Qld
2009   Creation and Re-creation, Lagoons Gallery, Mackay, Qld
2009   Retrospect, Mackay Regional Libraries, Qld

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010   Stock Show, Seek Fine Art, Paddington,Sydney NSW
2010   Conjecture Series, Blur exhibition, Sarina Art Gallery, Sarina Qld
2010   Passenger Series, RADF Showcase, Artspace, Mackay, Qld
2010   Collective Exhibition, Agora Gallery, New York, NYC
2010   Seek Fine Art Group Exhibition, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
2010   Memory Paths, University of Tasmania Creative Arts, Tas

2009   Rio Tinto Alcan Martin Hanson Memorial Awards & Exhibition, Gladstone, Qld
2009   Bounce, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania
2009   Subject Matters, Artspace, Mackay
2009   Best Friends, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania
2009   Art Street, Sydney Street, Mackay, Qld
2009   UTAS Graduate Exhibition, Central Queensland University, Mackay, Qld

2008   Juggernaut, Orange Gecko Group, Lagoons Gallery, Mackay, Qld
2008   Mixing It Up, Sarina Art Gallery, Field of Dreams, Sarina, Qld
2008   Opening Exhibition, Sarina Art Gallery, Field of Dreams, Sarina, Qld
2008   Debris, Central Queensland University, Mackay, Qld

2007   Sarina Art Extravaganza, Sarina, Qld

2004   Central Queensland Institute of TAFE Graduate Exhibition, Mackay, Qld

ASSOCIATIONS
Board Member- RADF committee
Member- Queensland Artworkers Alliance
Tutor- Flying Arts Queensland

Grants, Awards, Commissions
2010   Artist (public art) Mackay Base Hospital Redevelopment Project, Qld (current)
2009   Regional Arts Development Fund, Grant recipient, Mackay, Qld
2009   Short Listed for Off the Wall, Sydney, NSW
2009   Local Artist, Sarina Art Extravaganza, Qld
2009   Portraiture, Commended, Sarina Art Extravaganza, Qld

2009   Festival of the Arts, Art Street Exhibition, Mackay Qld: Exhibitor
2009   Victorian Bushfires Art Auction, Central Queensland University, Mackay: Art Donation         

2008   Portraiture 1st, Sarina Art Extravaganza, Qld
2008   Open section, Commended, Sarina Art Extravaganza, Qld

2008   Sarina Shire Council Art Auction, Sarina Cultural Hall, Sarina, Qld: Exhibitor
2008   Artist in Residence, Ilbilbie Gallery, Ilbilbie, Qld

2007   Contemporary Section 2nd, Sarina Show Society, Qld
2007   Portraiture Section 3rd, Sarina Show Society, Qld
2004   Contemporary Section 2nd, Sarina Show Society, Qld

Art Collections
Works in private collections nationally and internationally

Representation
‘Represented by Seek Fine Art in NSW’ Suite 3, 8-16 Soudan Lane, Paddington, NSW
‘Represented by Agora Gallery in New York’ 530 W.25th St. New York, NY 10001