Jenny Robinson
7. Jenny Robinson, Rotondo #1 (from the Rotondo Portfolio series), 2019-2021, drypoint on mulberry paper, 64 x 63.5 cm. NFS
This portfolio of 6 Dry points is a response to the artists’ relocation from California, where she lived for 18 years, back to Europe for a hiatus of two years from 2018-2020.
The Portfolio is a celebration of the beauty of architectural form and symmetry in her new environs, from European 19 th architectural Romanticism, through to the brutalist architecture of eastern Europe.
Whilst sometimes sold separately, this portfolio was conceived as a series and all 6 prints are designed to hang together in a full set.
The artists’ work is rooted in, and emerges from, drawing on site. Every project begins with observational drawings and photographs, which are redrawn, re-examined and reorganized until the forms take on a life of their own.
Robinson is interested in that moment when an image points us towards a world that we recognize, firmly rooted in the here and now, but not quite real, giving us a history of the present as a dream like architecture built from the tessellations of recurrent memories and fragile materials
Jenny Robinson completed her BFA in Printmaking in the United Kingdom. After living in San Francisco for 20 years, she moved to Slovenia for 2 years and has recently relocated to Australia, where she founded the Jenny Robinson Print Studio in Sydney’s Inner west.
In 2019, Robinson was awarded the prestigious Mario Avati Gravure Laureate Award from the Academic des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, where she had a retrospective solo exhibition in September 2021. She has won numerous Awards and Fellowships and has exhibited widely internationally.
Her work is in many private and public collections, including Library of Congress Arts Collection, Washington DC, The Achenbach Fine Print Collection, San Francisco, Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, MA, The Art Council of Great Britain, London and The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.
