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Robert Baines: Living Treasure 2010 Curriculum Vitae

2 June 2010

Curiculum vitae
 
Training and education
2006 Doctorate of Philosophy, RMIT University, Melbourne
1998 Master of Arts in Classics and Archaeology, Monash University, Melbourne
1970 Diploma of Art, Gold and Silversmithing, RMIT University, Melbourne
Selected solo exhibitions
2008 The Schatzkammer: A Treasury of Evidence, DESIGNMUSEO Helsinki, Finland
2007 Gold Rings, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Close Up, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia
2004 Robert Baines, Entdecker der antiken Goldschmiedetechnik, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, München, Germany
2004 Partyline, Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany
2003 Robert Baines: Stopping at the Red, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
2000 REDEVENT: bloodier than black, Helen Drutt, Philadelphia, USA
2000 AAA, AA… … … …REDEVENT: Survey, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2000 Bloodier than Black, Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany
1997 INTERVENTION OF RED, part 3 of AAA… … … …REDEVENT, Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany
1989 The Waikato Pieces, Waikato Museum for Art and History, Waikato, New Zealand
1982 Antipodean Forms, Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1982 Misteri Antipoidei, Via Veneto 50, Rome, Italy
1981 A Visible Likeness …, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1981 A Visible Likeness …, Robin Gibson, Sydney, Australia
1979 The Plenitude, Kym Bonython Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1978 Sculpture to be Worn, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1977 Sculpture, Jewellery and Other Objects, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

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Selected group exhibitions
2008 Robert Baines Karl Fritsch, Jewelerswerk, Washington DC, USA
2008 Karl Fritsch, Mari Ishakawa, Caroline von Steinau-Steinruck, Robert Baines Werkstatt, Frauenstr 36, Munich,Germany
2007 Gioielleria Contemporanea, Robert Baines Karl Fritsch Fritz, Maierhofer Ramon Puig Cuyas, Studio Gr.20 - Graziella Folchini Grassetto, Padova, Italy
2007 Opposition is True Friendship, Galerie Biró, München, Germany
2007 Field of Vision: Contemporary Jewelry and Hollowware, Indiana University School of Fine Arts (SoFA), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
2007 Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2007 Selection of Schmuck 2007, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padova, Italy
2007 Schmuck 2007, 59th International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
2006 More Jewellery-Time Travel in the Jewellery Museum Collections, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany
2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 2006, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2005 Inspired Across Time, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
2005 Schmuck 2005, 57 Internationale Handwerksmesse, International Trade Fair Munich, Germany
2005 Closer, Interventions from the MNAA Colleccions, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa, Portugal
2003 Melbourne International Mokume Symposium and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Bijou Contemporain, Robert Baines und Karl Fritsch, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
2002 Material Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2002 Schmuck, Robert Baines und Karl Fritsch Schmuck, Stadtische Galerie im Rathausfletz, Neuburg an der Donau, Germany

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Selected public collections
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
  • Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • Ville de Cagnes-sur-Mer, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
  • Deutsches Blockflötenmuseum, Fulda, Germany
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  • Galerie am Graben, Vienna, Austria
  • Waikato Museum of Art and History, Waikato, New Zealand
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  • Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
  • Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

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Selected awards and honours
  • Friedrich Becker Preis
  • The Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation Scholarship
  • Bayerischer Staatpreis 2005
  • Andrew Mellon Conservation Fellowship
  • Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
  • Distinguished Research Award, ACUADS
  • Senior Fulbright Award
  • Australia Council Fellowship
  • Winston Churchill Fellowship

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Selected bibliography
  • Gibson, Robin, A Visible Likeness, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, Catalogue, 1979/81
  • Robert Baines, The Art of the Goldsmith, Exhibitour MDF, New Zealand Limited, 1991
  • Robert Baines, Misteri Antipoidei, Assozione Italia-Australia, Rome, 1985
  • Travel, Goldsmith, Robert Baines, Introduction by Jenny Zimmer, 1988
  • Journey to the Plenitude, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, Catalogue
  • The Plenitude, Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide, Catalogue, 1985
  • From the Plenitude, City of Horsham Regional Gallery, Catalogue, 1989
  • Adventures of the Archegos, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Pty Ltd, Catalogue, 1992
  • Mendham, Dawn, The Plenitude, Melbourne, Catalogue, 1996
  • The Intervention of Red, Galerie Biró, Munich, Catalogue, 1997
  • Stopping at the Red, Galerie Biró, Munich, Catalogue, 2000
  • Robert Baines, Partyline, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Galerie Biró, München, RMIT Publishing Germany, 2004
  • Robert Baines, Bracelet Java-la-Grande, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2006

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