Frank Robin

Numinous Vessels
Robin Gibson Gallery
13 September – 8 October, 2008

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Frank Robin

Kore (Daughter of Greenness with Earthly Flowers)
46×52cm stoneware

Flowers, leaves, branches and roots are numinous botanical motifs set on various shades of green coloured background. The dominant colour is green, which was inspired by the alchemical benedicta viriditas, signifying the secret immanence of the divine spirit of life in all things. In Alchemy Green signifies generation, preservation, hope and the future. The round vessels allude to the shared roundness of the human head, planet Earth, the Sun and the Moon, and the universe. This shared roundness of the clay vessels, the human head and the universe suggests an unrealised potential of the human mind synthesising the chthonic forces of earthly matter with the spiritual forces of the firmament.

Biography

1965
Born in Baghdad. Lives & works in Sydney
1996
Diploma in Arts (Fashion Design), Sydney Institute of Technology
2000
Introduction to Sculpture, National Art School
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), National Art School

Solo Exhibitions

2005
Elysian Fields – Ceramics, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2004
Honours Exhibition, National Art School
International Ceramic Art Museum, China
New Talent 3, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2003
Degree Show, National Art School
2002
Midyear Show, National Art School

Collections

  • Coppleson Collection, Sydney
  • Lars Hansson Collection, Los Angeles
  • Nicole Kidman Collection, Sydney

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