TODD ROBINSON

BIOGRAPHY

Todd Robinson is an artist, designer and researcher. His practice traverses fields of sculpture, installation, textiles and fashion. Robinson worked as a fashion designer, 1995-2003. Since then he has been awarded a Master of Fine Art (research) degree in sculpture and installation from the University of New South Wales and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has exhibited his work widely, both in fashion design and visual arts contexts, showing solo Men’s collection at Mercedes Australian Fashion Week and The Melbourne Fashion Festival, The Art Gallery of New South Wales and ARTSPACE, Sydney. His work has been collected by The National Gallery of Victoria. Robinson has taught in the Fashion Design and Design Studies programs at the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology since 2004.

TODD ROBINSON

Born 1971
Lives and Works in Sydney

Education

2009	PhD Candidate, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
2007	Master of Fine Arts (Res), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2009	Karakish, Grantpirrie Project Space, Sydney
2008	Twice, MOP gallery, Sydney
2007	The heaviness of something + other cartographic lines, With Maro Alwan, MOP gallery, Sydney
2006	Sightlessness, Artspace, Sydney
2005	Shirt drawing, Sherman Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004	reservoir, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
2002	"Cricket and India", Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, Menswear Collection Show
2000	Loomstate, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions and Projects

2009	Southerly Buster, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney Drawn Threads, University of Technology, Sydney.
2007	Synthetic/Aesthetic, Gallery 4A, Sydney
2006	Ghosts of the Coasts,Gallery 4A, Sydney
2005	colour(less), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Room 35 Turns, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
2004	National Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney One of. Festivus 04, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Slippage, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2003	Inaugural show, MOP Gallery, Sydney
2002	Fashion editor, Les Substance Masculine Magazine
1999	Male Order: Addressing Menswear, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria Nomination for Inclusion in 1999 Seppelt Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in the Object Design Category

Collections

National Gallery of Victoria

Prizes and Grants

2009	Australian Post Graduate Award, UTS, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Scholarship
2008	Janet Holmes à Court Artists Grant,NAVA Marketing Grant
2006	The Gunnery Studio Residency, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts
2004	New Work Grant, Visual Arts Crafts Fund, Australia Council for the Arts
2001	Melbourne Fashion Festival, Best New Menswear Award
1999	Male Order: Addressing Menswear, Exhibition Prize, Joint - Winner The Ian Potter Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria

Bibliography

Burke, L. please do touch the display in Frankie Magazine,
http://www.frankie.com.au, 2008

Evans, Marguerite Todd Robinson: Profile, Oyster Magazine 1999 p.40

Crosweller, Alison” Winner tailors an image of male with dress sense”, in The Australian, March 26, 2000

Donald, Paul Drawing a labour “, ex essay, Shirtdrawing Sherman Artbox, 2005.

DeAngelo, Dominique “ Ghosts of the coasts”, Metro, Sydney
Morning Herald, May 12, 2007.

Johnson, Liz Fashionism Profile: Todd Robinson, Remix magazine, vol.11, 2002

Healy, Robyn Male Order: Addressing Menswear, ex.cat.1999
Material Thinking - Please Do Touch the Display
http://www.dhub.org/articles/1121, 2008

McFarlane, Robert “Beyond Fashion to fine portraiture”,
Sydney Morning Herald, April 8, 2004

Mudie Cunningham, Daniel “ Things in the world” ex. essay, Twice, MOP Gallery, Sydney, 2008.

Phillips, Dougal Ghosts of the Coasts, 2006 ex cat.

Ryan, Meryl Colourless, ex. cat. Lake Macquarie city art gallery, 2004 22 july-28 August 2005.

Robinson, Todd. Todd Robinson: Sightlessness ARTSPACE, 2006

Robinson,T & Storer,R ‘Do words and clothes go together? in Les Substance Masculine No.1, 2001.

Stead, Naomi, Todd Robinson, cat essay, Grantpirrie Project Space, August, 28, 2009

Schubert, Misha Menswear loosens the ties that bind, The Australian, March 26 2001

Storer, Russell “Todd Robinson” in ex cat. Sightlessness, ARTSPACE, Sydney 2006

Storer, Russell “reservoir”, ex essay, Reservoir, Room 35, Gitte Weise, Gallery, 2004

Storer, Russell, 2-D Drama: What’s in a fashion photograph?
in Oyster Magazine, 1999 p.32

Storer, Russell “Cricket in India”, ex. cat. Todd Robinson Men’s Spring/Summer 2001/2

Xu, Mimi ‘Beyond Bordies” in Australian style magazine, p.15, 200 ‘Hemmed in’ in Noise magazine, 2002