Leo Robba has a thirty-year-strong obsession with Australia’s landscape. Based in the Blue Mountains as an artist, writer and curator, he has focused fixedly on the picturesque throughout the entirety of his career. His garden paintings examine the cultural and sociological psychology of ‘the façade’; are the exteriors an apt reflection of that which occupies the unseen?
Robba is recognised for organising and leading art expeditions to remote and iconic destinations such as the Larapinta Trail and through the Flinders Ranges, an experience that informs his current PhD studies at ANU, Canberra.
King Street Gallery on William
19 March to 13 April, 2013
Sydney
Wed April 10, 6pm for 6.30pm start: Join Leo at King Street Gallery as he shares his passion and experience of landscape painting and gardens. He will speak about his doctoral thesis, as well as his own art practice. Seating is strictly limited, RSVP essential: call (02) 9360 9727 or email
Images:
1) Dusk, looking through big pines, 2012, oil on canvas, 122cm x 69cm
Courtesy the artist and King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2) Autumn Hillston, 2011, oil on canvas, 38 x 104cm
Courtesy the artist and King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
