Exhibitions/Projects:

2008

air SCA GAllery, Sydney College of the Arts

2007

The Manufacture of Sky Light*, Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville

appease the sun*, Room 1 Sydney Non-Objective 175 Marrickville Rd,Marrickville

 

2006

Mirror Box*, Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville

Loose Line 091N 2006, collaboration with Horst Kiechle In Cones of Zontact, group show at Loose projects, Sydney,

DNA Converter and Other Machines*, collaboration with Stephen Sullivan, Multiple Box Gallery, Sydney.

2005

Dawn Light international symposium & exhibition (curators: Neil Berecry-Brown, Juliet Fowler-Smith & Tim Braham) Gosford Regional Gallery 2005

Unmade Histories (waiting)* installation of documentation, Rocketart, Newcastle.

They don't live here anymore in Minimal Approach...Concrete tendencies, curator Conny Dietszchold, Tin Sheds gallery

2004

Reception 2003 and Green Sheet Red Tree 2003 in Artful Mining, (curator Alex Torrens), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

Cook East Cook West in SiteSeeing (Curator Sioux Garside), Sydney College of the Arts Gallery.

Red check* Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

Reception* Installation and documentation, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney.

2003

The Aureolin Collection - Sites* (collaboration with Stephen Sullivan). The Aureolin Collection, Dulwich Hill, Sydney.

Cook East Cook West, in Touchdown, (curator Su Grierson) Galeri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden.http://www.left-luggage.co.uk/archive.html

DOMAIN: Temporary Public Art Project, CSA project, Canberra.

Gertrude in The Shangri-La A MARIA CRUZ PROJECT Artspace, Sydney.

2002

Mirror Room* installation at Artspace, Sydney

2001

Souvenir in Frameworks, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney.

Cook East, Cook West in Sunburn, Kampnagel[K3], Hamburg, Germany, curated by Anita Fricek.
http://www.haresbreath.com/sunburn

Horizon [Goulburn]* multi video landscape drawing installation, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.

2000

Green changing installation with Lesley Giovanelli & Toni Warburton, Kudos gallery, Paddington .

New Walls* installation in the Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Meeting Lines with paintings and text by Liz Coats, in Foyer gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.
with Cook East, Cook West, a two-video work, and Infinity Line.

Horizon [Orange]* Orange Regional Gallery.

Horizon [Sydney] in Sydney!Vienna! group exhibition curated by Anita Fricek in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. http://www.thing.at/sydneyvienna

1999

20/20 Vision group exhibition curated by Helen Hyatt-Johnston, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

Ground Up group exhibition curated by Adam Boyd, Artspace, Sydney.

Exit* installation-internet work with Horst Kiechle in Level 2 Contemporary Art Projects Program, AGNSW.http://oldsite.vislab.usyd.edu.au/staff/horst/EXIT/index.html

Horizon* landscape video drawing installation, SOUTH, Surry Hills, Sydney.

1998

GloveboxCushion in Glovebox, travelling exhibition organised by SOUTH, Surry Hills, Sydney.

Fragments-Renga 1998 organised by Noriko Keien Nagata, Tokyo & The Performance Space, Sydney.

Leap steel ground drawing in Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Melbourne Festival.

Ecopoetica Synapse event, Dog Trap Road, Peats Ridge, and Artspace, Sydney.

Comma RMIT, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne.

X in After the Masters, group exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.

Memento in Canberra National Sculpture Forum.

1997

Field of Dreams AAAR! project in support of Native Title.

Ninety Degrees ground drawing in Public Sculpture in Manly, project of Manly Council, Sydney.

FLATS* room drawing/installation at 106 Erskineville Rd., Erskinville, Sydney.

PIN large group installation, SOUTH gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney.

Ground Games* installation, Watch This Space gallery, Alice Springs.

Petal installation with Adam Laerkesen, Kas, Balmain, Sydney.

1996

Unavailable Space group exhibition, curator Suzanne Bartos, The Performance Space gallery, Redfern, Sydney.

Drawing on Rooms* individual exhibition, Gallery ARDT, Leichhardt, Sydney.

1995

The Viaduct Project group exhibition, curators Rose Anne McGreevy & Barbara Halnan, in Federal Park, Annandale, Sydney.

Chimera 3-person exhibition NSW Parliament House accompanying the Synapse conference, Chimera.

LOOP exhibition with Regina Walter and Raquel Ormella at First Draft, Surry Hills, Sydney.

1994

Ipso Photo group exhibition at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.

PICABOANS residency project at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Nur Gora Rupa festival of music, performance and installation, Solo, Indonesia.

1993

PURL exhibition in the West Melbourne Primary School, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.

1992

Five Artists group exhibition at the Catacombs gallery, curator Rose Anne McGreevy, Hereford St, Glebe, Sydney.

Through a Corridor Sideways
exhibition with Rebecca Turrell, The Performance Space, Sydney.

1991

Room drawing installation* , W.I.N.D.O.W. gallery, Sydney.

Discrete Entity group exhibition at the Canberra School of Art Gallery, curators Julie Ewington & David Watts.

Wendy Howard and Margaret Roberts, First Draft WEST, Annandale, Sydney.

Steam an artists' Project for Australian Perspecta 1991, curators Vicente Butron & Janet Shanks, The Rocks, Sydney.

1990

Chris Fortescue, Wendy Howard, Margaret Roberts Artspace, Surry Hills, Sydney.

Vault group exhibition curated by Zylvia Auerbach at The Foundry, Leichhardt, Sydney.

Down-Fall* 200 Gertrude St gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Sculpture* The Performance Space Gallery, Sydney.

1989

Untitled* First Draft (West), Chippendale, Sydney.

1988

My Arm Covers the Distance with Fiona Gunn & Frances Joseph, 338 Gallery, Sydney.

1987

Histories group show at The Performance Space gallery, Redfern, Sydney.

(* individual and collaborative exhibitions)

Awards/Residencies:

2005 residencies, Rocketart, Newcastle & Bundanon, Nowra, NSW.

2003 residency, Haefliger's Cottage, Hill End, NSW.

2001 New Work Grant, VACB, Australia Council.

2000 Artists at Work residency, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.

1996 New Work grant, VACF, Australia Council.

1995 Australia Council studio at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

1994 residency, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

1994 Asialink residency at Institut Seni Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

1991 Project grant, VACB, Australia Council.

Writing, papers, reviews:

Margaret Roberts, Maureen Burns: Domestic Pulp-itations, Eyeline 65, 2008, p 63

Margaret Roberts, Appease the Sun, artists pages in Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (art: 2) November 2007 http://www.thescopes.org

Margaret Roberts, Place and the phenomenological model of the site, paper in ACUADS conference, September 2007

Margaret Roberts, Placeful Interventions, paper in Art and the Real, AAANZ conference, AGNSW, July 2007

Margaret Roberts, What is this material, live space? paper,   2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities http://www.hichumanities.org/proceedings_hum.htm p 4255-68

Margaret Roberts, paper in Dawn Light international symposium & exhibition (curators: Neil Berecry-Brown, Juliet Fowler-Smith & Tim Braham) Gosford Regional Gallery 2005 http://www.brownscows.com/brownscowspages/readingroom/papers/paper_roberts.html

Margaret Roberts, Chromophobic - Lesley Giovanelli Beata Geyer , in Haiku Review #6   2006 http://haikureview.net/node/59

Margaret Roberts, Helen Sturgess' performance work, Artspective 1,2003: http://www.artspective.com/supplements/helenSturgess/review001.php

Margaret Roberts, Sue Pedley, Sound of Bamboo , haiku, 2002.
http://www.haikureview.net/node/20

Margaret Roberts, Drawing: Artists Talk, review, Eyeline 46, Spring 2001, p 53-5

Margaret Roberts, If only artists were to blame, Uniglory 5: Arkitect, 2001

Margaret Roberts, Artists, Curators and Site-Specific Work in Richard Holt and Brett Jones (eds), Artists Talk, Issues facing Australian Artists, Westspace, Melbourne, 2000, p 119--124

 

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Allen, Christopher, Freedom in the Art of Fancy, SMH, 7 Sep 1990, p 10.

Ashburn, Elizabeth, From Illusion to Delirium, GLOBE, Issue 6, 1997:

Best, Sue, 'Purl' and Plane Geometry, FAST catalogue, vol 2, 1993, p 57-60.

Campioni, Mia, Plane Thinking: drawing installations by Margaret Roberts, catalogue, 1998.

Clark, Deborah, Canberra National Sculpture Forum 1998, Art Monthly Australia, May '98, # 109, p10-11.

Coats, Liz, Catalogue essay for The Viaduct Project, 1995.

Crawford, Billy, essay in catalogue for Through a Corridor Sideways, TPS, 1992.

Crawford, Billy, Sydney Commentary, Agenda, # 10, March 1990, p 29-30.

Down-Fall, Catalogue, 200 Gertrude St, April 1990.

Eagle, Mary, Discrete Entity, Art and Text, # 41, January 1992, p. 97-8.

Fortescue, Chris, Gesture, Point of View, Polemic, Artmaster 3, February 1994.

Finegan, Anne, Mirror Room: The Inside Is the Outside/Zones of Affect, catalogue essay for Mirror Room, Artspace, 2002.

Finnane, Kieran, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Eyeline, #34, spring 1997.

Fricek, Anita, essay in catalogue for EXIT, AGNSW http://oldsite.vislab.usyd.edu.au/staff/horst/EXIT/index.html

Hyatt-Johnson, Helen, Loaded Values of Inside Space, Broadsheet, Winter, 1995, p 17-8.

McDonald, Anne, Discrete Entity, Agenda, #20/21, Nov 91/Jan 92, p 45.

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