Jenny Robinson has been a professional artist and Master Printmaker for the past 40 years, based in London, San Francisco and now Sydney. She has been awarded numerous accolades and prizes, including the prestigious Mario Avati Engraving Prize from the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris in 2019.
Interested in the peculiar transience of our built environment, the impermanence of which is ostensibly permanent, Robinson’s practice emerges from the observation and study of a variety of structures and architectures that frame the contemporary urban experience.
Her choice of materials is pivotal to her work. By choosing fragile gampi tissue and other lightweight papers as a substrate, her work draws attention to the fragility of both the natural and man made world and brings into focus the irony between the inevitable destruction of the welded metal building and the museum-conserved future of its likeness, pressed into semi-transparent tissue. Her innovative printmaking methods allow for spontaneity, experimentation and a scaling up of the size of her prints; each one being a unique and expressive work on paper.
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Counterpart (I and II), 2017
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Woodblock
Rives Arches Natural
Sheet Size: 38 x 26 inches ea
Edition of 10
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$1900
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Published January 2017
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Counterpart (I and II), 2017
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Woodblock
2ply Chinese paper
Sheet Size: 38 x 26 inches ea
Edition of 10
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$1900
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Published January 2017
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Counterpart I (Parcel B), 2017
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Woodblock
2ply Chinese Natural
Sheet Size: 38 x 26 inches
Edition of 10
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$1000
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Published January 2017
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Counterpart I (Parcel B), 2017
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Woodblock
Arches Rives BFK White
Sheet Size: 38 x 26 inches
Edition of 10
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$1000
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Published January 2017
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Counterpart I (Parcel B), 2017
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Woodblock
Arches Cream Buff, 250gsm
Sheet Size: 38 x 26 inches
Edition of 10
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$1000
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Published January 2017