ROBBIE HARMSWORTH
Born Melbourne 1947
Education
2008 Masters of Fine Art, Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria
1977 Diploma of Fine Art/ Ceramics, RMIT 1967 Diploma of Interior Design, RMIT, Melbourne
Teaching and appointments
1988-1996 Director of ‘Image Australia Ceramics’, Melbourne
1974-1980 Lecturer, Department of Art and Design, Moorabin TAFE
Solo Exhibitions
2015 A Sense of Place, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2014 Inanna’s Descent, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2012 Arcadia, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2010 Psyche: Transcending the Abyss, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2008 A Palimpsest: Persephone and the Underworld, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
2002 Underworld: The Persephone Myth Explored, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Group Exhibitions
2016 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
2015 Mythology of My Land, M. Contemporary, Sydney, N.S.W
2014 Kedumba Drawing Invitational Exhibition, N.S.W
2014 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
2012 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
2007 Landscape Site Lines – 5 Ways, Clement Meadmore Gallery, Australian Academy of Design, Vic
2004 Celebrating the Master, Skepsi on Swanston Gallery, Vic
2003 Changing Surfaces, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria 2000 Millennium Platter Exhibition, The Ceramic Art Gallery, NSW.
2000 Group Show, Northcote Pottery Gallery, Victoria
Editorial
2008 M. Coutts, ‘Robbie Harmsworth: Subterranean Journeys’, Imprint Magazine, volume 44, number 4
2003 J. Trzcinski, ‘ Mystery of Myth’ in The Herald-Sun – April 5
2002 K. Martin, ‘Robbie Harmsworth & Kris Coad’, Craft Culture – Vol 3, Nov
2002 V. Howlett, J. McCaughey, ‘Underworld-The Persephone Myth Explored’, Catalogue, Craft Victoria
2000 G. Klix, ‘Commemorating the Millennium’ in Ceramic Art & Perception, Issue 40
Awards and Prizes
2016 Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2014 Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery,Victoria
2014 Finalist, Kedumba Drawing Prize, Orange Art Gallery, NSW
2012 Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery,Vic
2003 Finalist, Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Commissions
2003 Series of two Etchings, Shepparton Art Gallery
2017 Large Drawing, ‘Idyll’, Private Commission
Collections
Shepparton Art Gallery (2003)
Shepparton Art Gallery (2002)
National Gallery of Victoria (1978)
Private Collections: Australia, France, U.K, USA, Germany and Japan
