exhibited at
Robert MacPherson
Date
2001
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Organised by AGWA. With assistance from the State Government of Western Australia; the Perth International Arts Festival; the Visual Arts and Crafts Fund of the Australia Council. An overview of the work of Robert MacPherson, works with colonial Australian subject matter and materials, disappearing Australian colloquialisms and culture. At the same time his work participates in an international dialogue.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/past_ex/robmac.htm

Exhibition Catalogue:
Smith, Trevor, Robert MacPherson. Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2001
ISBN 0 7309 3628 7

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: 184 frog poems: 184 boss drovers
Date
2001
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
184 frog poems: 184 boss drovers / Robert MacPherson. Brisbane: IMA Publishing, 2001
ISBN 1875792406

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Bea Maddock, Robert MacPherson: landfall
Date
2000
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW, Paddington, NSW
Description

A satellite exhibition of the Boennale of Sydney. Two of our most important senior artists present major new works in conversation with more conceptual and personal works from the late 1970’s

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Landfall / Bea Maddock, Robert MacPherson. Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2000
1 folded sheet (3 p ) : col ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Printmaking, Installation
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: Murranji
Date
1998
Place
University of South Australia
Description

A mini-survey, included major works created over twenty years, and was exhibited at two venues. At the University of South Australia Art Museum, two major works from the 1970’s were installed. In the large gallery space, MacPherson’s Filled Gestures 1977 covered the walls. The organic nature if Filled Gestures was echoed by the triangular forms repeated in wood, watercolour and photography in Souvenir of Marlene Deitrich: (13 Simple Gestures) 1977-88.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
UNISAM exhibition archive; Curtin Gallery exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: Murranji. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Artspace Visual Arts Centre, 1998
ISBN 1876017638

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: 1975-1995
Date
1995
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Periz, Ingrid, Robert MacPherson 1975-1995. Melbourne, Vic: National Gallery of Victoria, 1995
1 folded sheet [5] p : col ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Litteraria: Robert MacPherson: litteraria; Simryn Gill: models of virtue
Date
1995
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Two artists were invited to make work for the South Australian Museum and were given access to collections of the Museum. Works that looked at, and experimented with, ideas of how we structured and make sense of the world; concerned with questioning and illuminating the ways that we read meanings into individual objects and how we place them in structures that, in turn, generate meanings.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Installation
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: a proposition to draw 1973-78
Date
1993
Place
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Organised and toured by the University Art Museum, University of Queensland

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: a proposition to draw 1973-78. St Lucia, QLD: University Art Museum, University of QLD, c1993
ISBN 0867765135

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Drawing
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: the described and undescribed
Date
1994
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A survey of recent work by the artist.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: the described the undescribed. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, [1994]
ISBN 0731029194

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: nine frog poems: nine skies, nine airs for b.a.
Date
1992
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: from the collection
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Paintings and installations by Robert MacPherson, one of Australia’s leading conceptual artists, which had been acquired by the Gallery during the previous two years.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation, Painting
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: 20 frog poems: distant thunder (a memorial) for DM 1987-1989
Date
1989
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive; State Library of QLD

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson: 20 frog poems: distant thunder (a memorial) for DM 1987-1989. July 1989 Bulletin (Institute for Modern Art, (Brisbane, QLD))

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson : exhibition 1: the rectangle is a container; exhibition 2: I see a can of paint as a painting unpainted
Date
1987
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert MacPherson : exhibition 1: the rectangle is a container; exhibition 2: I see a can of paint as a painting unpainted. Darlinghurst, NSW: Various Artists Ltd (Publications), 1987
ISBN 0958824711

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media, Installation
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson
Date
1985
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Curated with Peter Cripps and using many works held by Malcolm Enright.
Exhibition Catalogue:
Survey exhibition / Robert MacPherson. Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art, 1985.
ISBN 0959444157

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Mixed media
curator of
Hilary Boscott
Date
1982
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Photography
exhibited at
A person on film signalling to someone in painting: an installation: Robert MacPherson
Date
1981
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson
Date
1980
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: national art: a simplistic view 'Queensland series'
Date
1978
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson: 3 works/3weeks
Date
1977
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert MacPherson
Date
1975
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media