Robert MacPherson
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Exhibition
Robert MacPherson: Murranji
Robert MacPherson: Murranji brochure
In the Press...
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Exhibition
Robert MacPherson: Two Works, 1987-90
Two works, 1987-90 was part of Robert MacPherson’s larger series Frog Poems. It continued to explore the problematic relationship between object and language, examining the process of naming as a language tool that identifies...
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Exhibition
Geometric Abstraction
...legacies of mainstream modernism, constructivism, minimalism and conceptual art.
Curated by Sue Cramer and John Nixon
Exhibiting artists: Tim Burns, Peter Cripps, Leslie Dumbrell, Melinda Harper, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Robert MacPherson, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Robert Owen, Peter Tyndall...
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Exhibition
Inland
...by Robert Owen
Exhibiting Artists: George Alexander, Suzanne Barta, Terri Bird, Joan Brassil, Paul Carter, Tony Clark, Aleks Danko, John De Silento, Neil Emmerson, Rosalie Gascoigne, Joan Dickson Grounds, Graeme Hare, Tim Johnson, Penelope Lee, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Robert MacPherson, John...
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Exhibition
Uncanny Nature
Nature proposed that nature has always been mediated by culture, whether through an engagement with the picturesque or the conceptual.
Exhibiting Artists: Hany Armanious, Christine Borland, Tony Clark, Neil Emmerson, Anne Ooms, Richard Giblett, James Ireland, Michael Landy, Robert Macpherson...
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Exhibition
Off the Wall / In the Air: A Seventies Collection
Tony McGillick, Marie McMahon, Robert MacPherson, Bea Maddock, Ian Milliss, Kevin Mortensen, Clive Murray-White, John Nixon, Jill Orr, Robert Owen, Ti Parks, Bob Parr, Mike Parr, Paul Partos, Paul Pholeros, Mel Ramsden, Toni Robertson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Sam Schoenbaum, Ken Searle, Lynn...
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Product
Uncanny Nature catalogue
ACCA's 2006 exhibition, Uncanny Nature, contains text on works byPaul Sietsema, Tony Clark, Christine Borland, Noël Skryzpczak, Michael Landy, Alex Pittendrigh, James Ireland, Richard Giblett, Neil Emmerson, Nick Mangan, Robert MacPherson, Anne Ooms and Hany Armanious.
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Publication
Uncanny Nature
ACCA's 2006 exhibition, Uncanny Nature, contains text on works byPaul Sietsema, Tony Clark, Christine Borland, Noël Skryzpczak, Michael Landy, Alex Pittendrigh, James Ireland, Richard Giblett, Neil Emmerson, Nick Mangan, Robert MacPherson, Anne Ooms and Hany Armanious.
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Rewind: Geometric Abstraction
...edge and minimal works of Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks and Robert Owen, to the Op Art of Lesley Dumbrell, and the more conceptual approaches of Peter Cripps, Peter Tyndall and Robert MacPherson. MacPherson’s Where Are you Now Silvia Holmes? (1982-83...
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Program
ACCA’s Sunday Sessions
...by Sean MilesIn the 1960s language was an important tool for conceptual artists, and continues to reverberate in contemporary art practice. Sean will focus on the work of Jon Campbell and Robert MacPherson to talk about the use of text and language in painting in relation to the Australian...
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Rewind: Inland – Corresponding Places
Joan Brassil, Paul Carter, Tony Clark, Aleks Danko, John De Silento, Neil Emmerson, Rosalie Gascoigne, Joan D. Grounds, Graeme Hare, Tim Johnson, Penelope Lee, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Robert MacPherson, John Nixon, Robert Owen, Mike Parr, Stieg Persson, Marie Sierra, Imants Tillers, Jennifer...
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Events
...the City of Melbourne, The British Council, the City of Glasgow and the Scottish Arts Council.Exhibiting Artists: David Noonan, Kate Beynon, Daniel von Sturmer, Danius Kesminas, Callum Morton, Jacinta Schreuder, Brett ValanceLECTURE: ‘Robert Macpherson: Three Decades...
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Rewind: Visual Tension
...and then the director of the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, suggested an immediate follow up – the same show but with the inclusion of Queensland artists at the IMA such artists as Robert MacPherson and Scott Redford.Beyond the selection and exhibition mayhem much of the pressure fell...
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A Conversation with Jenepher Duncan
Danko’s What are you doing boy? and other exhibitions by Jenny Watson, Janet Burchill, Robert MacPherson, Terri Bird and Fiona MacDonald were presented during that first year, which also included the Monash/ACCA partnership survey exhibition, Off the Wall/In the Air...