Resumé

Robert Ikin, born in Hobart, was a one-time lighthouse keeper for five years off the southern coast of Tasmania.  He is a mixed media artist, sculptor, ceramicist working and living in North-Eastern Tasmania.

Since art school in 1980, Robert has exhibited widely, especially Tasmania, with mixed shows in Canberra, Darwin, was included in Object as Subject ceramic survey which toured to Jakarta, and a solo show in Melbourne. 

Robert has been exhibited in many site specific projects - Roaring Beach, Upper Esk Shadows on the Waters, Mt Wellington Sculpture Trail, Jackeys Marsh Sculpture Trail, Ephemeral Sculpture Project at QVMAG Inveresk, and at Woolmers Art History, for Ten Days on the Island.

He was in residency in Paris in 2008 at the Cite des Arts, Rosamund McCulloch studios and over the past  years has participated in exhibitions in the Netherlands, The Tasmanie Project in Amsterdam in 2007, and in 2010 & 2013 at Kulturele Evenementen Groepen in Schijndel, also 2010 Residency at Patagonia Studios in Eindhoven.

From 2013 he has done a residency at Launceston Church Grammar, two Group Exhibitions, installed corridor works at Launceston General Hospital, working in his studio on mixed-media pieces and recent print editions, in progress.                                                                                                                                                  

Represented in Art in Public Buildings collections and other public collections, these include QVMAG, Devonport Regional Gallery, University of Tas Collection, Hobart., in Launceston General Hospital Collection, Corridor Works, Applied Health - LGH.