Paul Robinson

Growth Boundary

01 - 12 October 2025

G3

Opening Night

Friday 03 October | 6 - 8 pm

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This exhibition reflects on the massive growth in the outer reaches of Melbourne’s north. Paul grew up in Wallan when there were 35 students at the primary school in the two blue stone rooms of Wallan Primary School. Wallan was a small highway town, where the horses were changed before the climb up “Big Hill”,  the first obstacle on the trip to Sydney in the days of Cobb and Co. Today this is the end of Melbourne’s urban growth boundary. New houses are crammed on to tiny blocks of land, with the houses barely a metre apart. Across the road are huge empty paddocks. This vision of urban development demands car ownership, a disregard of long term sustainability, no room to grow food and a reliance on external powers for the supply of water and energy. The developments are vulnerable to famine and fire. Drone images informed these paintings where the wider landscape retains its eternal harsh beauty.

Artist Bio

Born 1948 Melbourne. B.A. & Dip Ed. Monash Uni 1968 - 71; B. Fine Art & Grad Dip. Fine Art Phillip Inst. (now RMIT) 1982 - 1986. Exhibitions: 1984 Darraweit Guim paintings & prints; 1988 Pinacotheca  Gallery Richmond, paintings; 1992 Caulfield Arts Centre, paintings; 1996 Mosaic public art, Kensington; 1996 Mosaic public art, Moonee Ponds, 1997 Walter Burley Griffin gallery Moonee Ponds, paintings and mosaic; 2001 69 Smith St. Gallery Collingwood, paintings; 2006 -10 Five public art projects Wallan & Beveridge; 2023  Red Gallery Fitzroy, mosaic; 2024 Red Gallery Fitzroy, mosaic; 2025 Red Gallery Fitzroy, painting.

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Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
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