Robert Juniper

The Errant Rectangle

29th October - 23rd November 2005

Lotus Drift, A Song of Arnhem Land (Diptych), Mixed Media, Gold and Silver Leaf on Belgian Linen, 92 x 244cm

It has been seven years since the two time Wynne Prize winner Robert Juniper has held a solo exhibition in Sydney. Juniper is represented in all leading public collections and was recently honoured as an Australian cultural living treasure .

This show reveals all the signature elements of his oeuvre... a unique poetic vision of the outback. Rarely representing places literally, Juniper is not so much as looking at the landscape, but is encompassed by it and hinting at the stories it might contain.

“I do not work directly in the open. I like to travel around and gather impressions and ideas and things like that and later try to express them in, shall we say, a poetic sort of way, a distillation, semi-abstract” Robert Juniper

This exhibition shows a familiar palette of gold-orange, lavender-blues and layer and layer of pigments scraped back revealing a sense of age and suggestive reminders of an indigenous people and their place.

“It is superbly ironic that creativity is such a private occupation, yet needs an audience to achieve some finality”. Robert Juniper

Echo, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 90 x 120cm

Poele Cut, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 90 x 120cm

Magpies over Lake Grace, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 77 x 114cm

After the Wet, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 90 x 120cm

Twilight at Nannine, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 92 x 122cm

Fly Flat (The Alluvial Patch), Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 90 x 120cm

Hot Day, Karratha, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 92 x 122cm

The Watchmen Go About, Mixed Media on Canvas, 92 x 92cm

The Entrance to the Gorge, Mixed Media on Canvas, 92 x 92cm

Ordered Landscape with Seven Enclosures, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 75 x 91cm

Road to the North, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 75 x 91cm

Still Life Mangoes, Kata Juta, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 75 x 91cm

Plant in a Bronze Vessel, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 76 x 92cm

The Changing Aspect of Mount Magnet, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 77 x 101cm

Pink Lake, Esperance, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 71 x 101cm

There is Always a Track, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 60 x 90cm

The Yabbie Hole, Helena River, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 75 x 84cm

A Pause on the Songlines, Mixed Media on Canvas, 36 x 46cm

High Tide, Price's Point, Mixed Media on Belgian Linen, 92 x 91cm

Rosinante Prancing, Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 25cm

Landscape John Forrest National Park, Mixed Media on Canvas, 25 x 20cm

Ned's Mum in the Kitchen, Mixed Media on Canvas, 25 x 20cm

Nuytsia Floribunda (The Christmas Tree), Mixed Media on Canvas, 20 x 25cm