Kevin Robertson began his career in the 1980s, amid a resurgence of interest in the medium of painting and, more particularly, figurative painting, in Perth and internationally. Over four decades, Kevin’s painting practice has continued to evolve – utilising traditional aspects of the craft while contemplating the limits of representation and proposing new ways of visualising the world in all its mystery. Kevin’s subjects reflect the various places he inhabits, or which hold specific meaning – from the intimate moments of daily life of his family and friends, to celestial bodies observed through a telescope. Kevin was born in Norseman, Western Australia, in 1964. He studied painting at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University), graduating with a BA in 1984. He was awarded a Master of Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, in 1992 and a Doctorate from Curtin University in 2018. His work is represented in many public and private collections including Artbank, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Wesfarmers, Bankwest, The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Kerry Stokes Collection and Janet Holmes à Court Collection.
