The Transfigured Landscape

Overview

William Robinson is one of South East Queensland’s – nay, Australia’s – best-loved living artists and there is little doubt as to why. His massive, magical, multi-perspective landscape paintings suck their audiences into an ethereal and uniquely Australian world of rainforest canopies, twisted tree roots, shiny mountain springs, vast, swirling oceans, sculpted sand dunes, drifting clouds and graded light.

In celebration of the artist, and coinciding with his 75^th birthday, QUT is hosting a retrospective of Robinson’s work across two installation spaces – the QUT Art Museum and the William Robinson Gallery at Old Government House.

The exhibition, entitled The Transfigured Landscape, will feature works from both public and private collections including Robinson’s famed landscape works as well as Archibald winning self-portraits, Equestrian self-portrait 1987 and Self-portrait with stunned mullet 1994.

If you have never seen a William Robinson exhibition, you are in for a real treat; his works are not only paintings, but visual excursions that stick in your mind for years after they have been experienced.