Australian, b. 1957 – Present
Represented Artist
Robert Clinch
Clinch's striking imagery transports the viewer to a fictional but hauntingly real world; telling accessible tales of loneliness, joy, injustice, humour, melancholy and whimsy.
In keeping with his neo-renaissance use of the luxurious egg tempera medium, he paints entirely from drawings, executed plein-air, often at numerous locations and then adapted for composition in the studio. The same fastidious approach is devoted to his beautifully hand-drawn limited-edition lithographs.
Clinch has completed many major commissions, including works for; The National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Museum (Melbourne University), Frank Lowy (Westfield Holdings) and Lindsay Fox (Linfox Transport).
The Collection
Works by Robert Clinch
Exhibition History
Selected Exhibitions
SOLO
2022
Robert Clinch: Life on Earth
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
2017-19
Objet D'art
2017
The Goggomonil D'art Project,
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
2014
Sounds of Silence: Robert Clinch
National Museum of Szcezecin
2013
Fanfare for the Common Man
Art Gallery of Ballarat & touring to Wollongong City. Gallery
2011
Real Life,
Brisbane. Real Life
2010
Themes and Variations
Manningham Council Gallery
2009 Lithographs
Drawings & Egg Tempera
2008 Black & White
Hill-Smith Gallery
2007 Urban Myths and Legends
Dickerson Gallery
2006 Robert Clinch
Lithographs
1994 Robert Clinch
Lithographs McClelland Galleries
1988 Works On Paper
Robin Gibson Gallery
SELECTED GROUP
From 1985 to 2022, exhibited in over 70 group exhibitions in recognised public art museums and commercial galleries in Australia, USA, Hong Kong,
From 1985 to 2022
exhibited in over 70 group exhibitions in recognised public art museums and commercial galleries in Australia
2016
Collectors Exhibition;
Melbourne. Dialect: The Town Hall Galery
2015
Salon: Gem's from the Stockroom;
Sydney.
2014
The Object Devine;
Melbourne. The Big Picture Show: Large Scale Australian Paintings; Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
2013
X-Marker: 10 years of the Town Hall Gallery collec...
City of Boroondara
Dreams and Reality
Hong Kong. Parallel Lines: Recent work by Robert Clinch and Peter Serwan; Riddoch Art Gallery
2011
Banyule Award For Works On Paper
Melbourne. Collaborations: artist & printer; Lancaster Press Gallery
2010
2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize;
Geelong
2009 In The Black
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
2008 Annual Collectors' Exhibition
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
2007 Works From The Studio
Lancaster Press Gallery
2006 Passion Printing
Lancaster Press Gallery
2005 Expansion
Lancaster Press Gallery
2004 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Lancaster Press Gallery
2003 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery
Nantucket.
2002 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery
New York. Hoorn-Ashby Gallery
2001 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery
New York.
2000 Hammer Galleries
New York. Wynne Prize
1998 Archibald Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1997 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1995 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1994 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1993 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1992 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1991 Alice Bale Art Award
McClelland Gallery
1989 Ansett Invitation Art Award
City of Hamilton Art Galley
1987 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1986 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1985 Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales