EDUCATION

1974-75              Studied Film, Flinders University, Adelaide

1962-64              Studied Printmaking, South Australian School of Art

1959-61              South Australian School of Art, Adelaide

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

2006-present     Adjunct Associate Professor ANU, School of Art

2005- 2006        Associate Professor, ANU, School of Art

1978- 2005        Senior Lecturer, Head of Painting, ANU, School of Art

1973-77              Senior Lecturer, Murray Park CAE, Adelaide

1972                   Senior Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide

1970-71              Lecturer, Wattle Park Teachers' College, Adelaide

1968-69             Lecturer, Maidstone College of Art, Kent & Basingstoke Tech College, United Kingdom 

1964-67             Lecturer, Wattle Park Teachers College & South Australian School of Art, Adelaide

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023         Silver Thread, Beaver Galleries, Canberra 

2022          Pacific Drift, Belconnen Art Centre, Canberra

2019          A Whole Life in a Passing Moment, May Space, Sydney

2018         Small Reflections - Public & private, Beaver Galleries

2017         Five Decades - from the Studio, May Space, Sydney

2017         Modern Times, The ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

2015         In Plain Sight, Brenda May, Sydney

2015         Art Stage Singapore, Brenda May Gallery

2014         Traffic, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2013         Brenda May, Sydney

2013         Crowd Energy, Block Project, Melbourne

2012         Robert Boynes 2007 to 2012, Harvison Gallery, Perth

2012         Language of the Street, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2011        In the Light of Day, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2010        Short Stories, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2010        Postscript, Karen Woodury Gallery, Melbourne

2009        CCTV, The Depot Gallery. Sydney

2008        Afterimage, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2007        George Petelin Gallery, Southport, QLD

2007         Street Stories, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2006         Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne

2005         Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2005         True Fictions, 10 Year Survey Show, Canberra Museum & Gallery, ACT

2004         Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2003         William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

2003         Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2002         Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2001         William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

2000         Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney

2000         Austral Gallery, St.Louis, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022     The Personal is Political, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria

2008     Melbourne Art Fair, 2008

2019      Sydney Contemporary – Carriageworks, Sydney

2008     Still Life, Brenda May Sydney

2018     Contour 556°, Public Art Festival, Canberra, Lake Burley     Griffin, Central Basin, Kingston Arts Precinct, Canberra

2007      Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 07

2017      10 Years of Collecting at the ANU, Drill Hall, Canberra

2006     Melbourne Art Fair, (Beaver Galleries & Brenda May Gallery)

2017      May Space Fourteen, Sydney

2005      Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery

2016     Contour 556°, Public Art Festival, Canberra, Lake Burley     Griffin, Central Basin, Kingston Arts Precinct, Canberra

2005      Interesting Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2014      Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

2005      Retroactive, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka

2014     Velocity, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra

2004     The Frank Saxby Bequest Invitation Art Acquisitions Prize, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree

2014      Pulse, Canberra Museum and Gallery

2014      Mother Nature in a Lesbian, Political Printmaking in SA1970-1980, Finders University Art Museum and city Gallery

2004     An Chandler & His Contemporaries, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt. Gambier, SA

2013     The Triangle, Political Art in Canberra, Canberra     Contemporary, Art Space 

2004     Place Face Down to Copy, ANU Art Gallery, in conjunction with the Australian Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia

2013      Undertone, Front Gallery, Canberra

2004     Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2012     Big scope: painting and place, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 

2003     Permanent Visions, Canberra Museum & Gallery

2012      In The Mirror, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2002    Tales of the Unexpected, curator by Deborah Hart, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2011      Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2002    Field Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2011     The Futile City, Heide Gallery, Melbourne

2002    Clemenger Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2010     PRINT BIG, Megalo, NGA Print Symposium 2010

2000    What John Berger Saw, ANU Canberra School of Art Gallery

2010     Embodymeant, University of South Australia, Adelaide

2000    Project 2/2000, Hermann Black Gallery

2010     Retroactive, Canberra Contemporary Art Space

2000    Metropolis, Museum of Sydney

2009     Cache, Viscopy, Bob gallery, Sydney

RESIDENCIES

2015                    Artist in Residence, Fremantle Art Centre – Artsouce - WA

2012                    Visiting artist - Westfield Belconnen Centre

2002                    Artist in Residence, Chur, Switzerland

1998                    Artist in Residence, Artspace, Sydney

1999                    Bundanon Trust, Artist in Residence, Nowra, NSW

GRANTS AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2018                    Awarded, Canberra Visual Artist of the Year 

2012                    CAPO Fellowship award, Canberra

2007                   ARIA Living Artist Award, Gold Coast Queensland

2006                    Canberra Times Artist of the Year Award

2001/2                 RAAF Memorial, Anzac Parade, Canberra

2001                    Italo-Australia Club Canberra Art Prize

2000                    Federal Court, Canberra

2000                    Legislative Assembly, Canberra

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, ACT

National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of NSW

Art Gallery of WA

Art Gallery of SA

Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Queensland Art Gallery

Latrobe Uni, Melbourne

Flinders Uni, Adel

Uni of Qld, Brisbane

Uni of Sydney Union

UTS Union, Sydney

Parliament House, Canberra

Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

Uni of Canberra

ANU, Canberra

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Uni of Tech, Sydney

QLD Uni of Tech, Brisbane

BHP Billiton

Australian War Memorial, Canberra

Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW

Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW

Canberra Museum and Art 

Gallery, Can

Mildura Arts Centre, Vic

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld 

Castlemaine Art Gallery, Qld

The Centre Gallery, Gold Coast

Wollongong City Gallery, NSW

BHP, NSW

VAB Art Purchase Programme, Australia Council

Artbank

Westfield, Sydney

IBM, Sydney

Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne

Festival Theatre, Adel

Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Harold Mertz Collection, University of Texas, Fort Worth, USA

The Raymond Burr Collection, California, USA

Westpac, New York, USA

Sears Roebuck, California, USA

RACV, Melbourne

PUBLISHED/BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015         Art Collection, Issue 71, Jan-March 2015

2014         Velocity, Curator by Terence Maloon, Drill Hall, Canberra 

2012         The Kym Bonython Collection, Greenaway Art Gallery SA

2011        Australian Art Collector, Sasha Grishen, Issue 58

2011        Art & Australia, Spring, Vol 49 #1, 2011 (illustration)

2008        Capital Magazine, July-August 08, Helen Musa

2007        Successful Art Story, Kathleen Fisher, Art Hub, July, Aug 07

2007        Art Collector, Sasha Grishin, June 07

2006        In Real Time Manly Museum & Art Gallery, Therese Kenyon

2005         Australian Art Review, #7, Mar-June

2005         Robert Boynes: True fictions, Deborah Hart, Art Monthly, July, pp.10-12

2005         Reproduced - Human Rights Defender, vol.14, issue 3, Dec, p.10-16, front cover

2004         Sydney Magazine, SMH, Victoria Hynes, Issue #14, June, p.102

2004         Human Rights Defender, Vol. 13, issue 3, Dec, p.15

2003         SMH Metro, Exhibitions, Peter Hill, Mar 23-Apr 3, 2003, p.23

2003         Human Rights Defender, vol. 12, issue 3, cover image & p.8

2002         Essay, Muse, Canberra Art Monthly, Aug, #220       

2002         Catalogue, Tales of the Unexpected, NGA

2002         Catalogue Essay, Points of View, Uni of Technology Sydney Art Collection

2001         Art & Australia, Vol.39 #2 2001 (illustration)