SUSANNA ROBINSON
RENEWAL
A show to celebrate my passion for flowers and still life, the sense of beauty sustaining one in life.
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Susanna Robinson (b.1981) is an Australian artist who captures the stillness of private worlds through oil painting. Her work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas.
Susanna’s Archibald Prize entry, a portrait of Chef Guy Grossi, was selected for the Salon des Refuses and toured to Tweed River Gallery in 2010. Susanna has studied intensive drawing and painting at the selective atelier school, the Florence Academy of Art, alongside courses at the Angel Academy of Art.
Susanna’s works have most recently been shown in Florence’s prestigious Gruppo Donatello as part of the first group of non-Italian artists to be exhibited; as well as in London’s Royal Academy of the Arts.
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Career highlights
2023: Oil painting ‘Beauty, Sweetness and the Hope for Prosperity’ selected to hang from 16000 entries in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London (Gallery VI)
2023: Solo show ‘Dolce Far Niente’, M2 Gallery, Sydney
2022: Represented by Florence’s Gruppo Donatello, culminating in ‘Oceania’ exhibition: https://www.oceania-show.com XS
2014- 2022: Formal training at atelier schools in Italy, alongside commissions for portrait drawings and private sales of still life and interior drawings and oil paintings
2004 - 2018: Exhibiting artist, Kuringai Art Society (KAS) and committee member 2012
2012: Sell out solo exhibition comprising 16 drawings in Kent street, Sydney
2010: Archibald Prize pen and ink portrait entry of Australian chef Guy Grossi selected for the SH Ervin Gallery’s Salon des Refuses exhibition and toured to the Tweed River Gallery. Portrait acquired by sitter
2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012: Recipient of various awards including first prize for drawing and ‘Best work on paper’, KAS awards exhibitions
Exhibiting artist for the Royal Art Society of NSW in Lavender Bay, with works selected for several exhibitions, including Thora Unga Memorial Award
2009: Exhibitor and award winner, Hunters Hill Art Prize
Formal training
2021: Angel Academy of Art: intensive painting course and private painting tuition in Florence by noted artists Tanvi Parthare and Ben Fenske
2014 - 2020: Florence Academy of Art - intensive drawing and painting training curriculum
