Robert Juniper

Robert Litchfield Juniper AM (born 7 January 1929) is a Western Australian artist who has also been an illustrator, art teacher, sculptor and printmaker.

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Early life

He was born in the wheat-belt town of Merredin, Western Australia. He studied commercial art and industrial design at Beckenham School of Art, England. After returning to Western Australia he painted, taught and exhibited in Perth, Western Australia. He was particularly championed by local Rose Skinner [1]

Teaching

He taught art at Perth College, Hale School in the 1950s and at Guildford Grammar School in the 1960s. In the 1960s Bob Juniper's trips into the Australian outback inspired the subjects of much of his abstract style of art.

He designed the coat of arms for the Commonwealth Law Courts in Perth, in 1992. His works are held in numerous collections, including Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery and Parliament House, Canberra

Exhibitions

Many solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, and overseas, including a major retrospective in 1999 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.

Robert Juniper was represented for many years by Gomboc Gallery and is currently represented by Greenhill Galleries [2]. Now in his early 80's, he continues to paint every day and remains both a highly productive artist and an inspiration and mentor to many other Australian artists.

Awards

Family

Robert Juniper has been married three times and has four children, all by his first wife, Robin-Ann (née Brennan): Sato (previously Linda); Ben (Benedict); Sam (previously Damien) and Bec (Rebecca). They all live and work as professionals in various fields in Western Australia. He has 11 grandchildren and step-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His second wife is Amanda (née Silbert) and his current wife is Patricia (née Lowe).

Recent work

Juniper was commissioned to work on a feature window in the restored Bunbury catholic cathedral - and it was completed in 2011 [5]

Notes

  1. ^ She had opened with her husband Skinner Galleries in 1958 in Mount Street in Perth - for more see Robert and Rose - pages 55-60 of Gavin Fry (2009) Robert Juniper, Sydney: The Beagle Press (with an introduction by Lou Klepac) ISBN 978064516158
  2. ^ http://www.greenhillgalleries.com
  3. ^ "Robert Juniper Centenary Medal". Australian Honours Database. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1123652&search_type=simple&showInd=true. Retrieved 27 January 2011. 
  4. ^ "Robert Juniper AM". Australian Honours Database. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1143464&search_type=simple&showInd=true. Retrieved 27 January 2011. 
  5. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/04/3130442.htm

Printed works

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