BOYNES, ROBERT (1942 -)

$9,500.00

"Spread Broad" (1966)

oil on canvas

162 x 130cm

signed lower right

*exhibited Mirror-Waratah Art Competition, 1966

*"Paintings By Robert Boynes", Hungry Horse Gallery, 1967

*Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide, 1984

*private collection, Adelaide

*Elder Fine Art, Adelaide

*private collection, Sydney

Boynes is an important, award-winning Australian Artist & Instructor. He studied at the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide from 1959-61 where he returned to undertake further studies in Printmaking from 1962-64. He completed a Master of Fine Arts in Film at Flinders University, Adelaide, from 1974-75. Boynes thereafter lectured at the Wattle Park Teachers' College and South Australian School of Art between 1964 and 1967. Boynes first began exhibiting professionally in 1964, when he held his first solo show at Clune Galleries in Sydney. He held solo exhibitions at Hungry Horse Art Gallery in Sydney, and Australian Galleries in Melbourne in July 1967. The latter exhibition featured his work Department Store, which signified a turning point in the artist's early career. In 1967 Boynes left Australia for England, where he worked as a lecturer at the Maidstone College of Art, Kent and Basingstoke Tech College from 1968-69. He returned to Australia in 1970 and then mainly lectured in painting and printmaking at Wattle Park Teachers' College and Murray Park CAE between 1970 and 1977. During this period, he also lectured in painting at the South Australian School of Art in 1972. Boynes left Adelaide and relocated to Canberra in 1978, where he took up the position as senior lecturer and head of painting at the Canberra School of Art. In 1995 a retrospective of three decades of his work was held in the Nolan Gallery in Canberra. Boynes exhibited his multi-panel installation Long Take-Slow Dissolve at Art Stage Singapore in 2015. Two of his artworks in the collections of the AGNSW & the NGV were shown in the exhibition Pop to Popism at the AGNSW from 2014-15. Several more of his works are represented in the AGSA. A solo show, In Plain Sight, was held at the May Space in Sydney in 2015, and in the same year, his work Auto Sex was acquired by the AGNSW.