From Bell Jars to Nets: A Personal Journey

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Amanda Robins
South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia

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Amanda Robins, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia

Amanda Robins Amanda Robins is Studio Head of Painting and Drawing at the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia. In 2008, she was awarded the House of Phillips Fine Art Drawing Prize for her work Net 1. In 2007, she received an ArtsSA grant to complete a body of work on the idea of containment and travelled to the UK to deliver a paper at the Sylvia Plath Symposium and exhibit her work at Oxford University. In 2006, she completed a Ph.D at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) as a Post Graduate Award scholar, having also been awarded a residency at the University's studio in the Cite International des Arts in Paris. Robins has exhibited regularly in prestigious exhibitions such as the Dobell Prize for Drawing (AGNSW) 2001, 2003, 2005, the Hutchins Prize (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) and the Jacarandah Drawing Award (2002, 2004) as well as in the Kedumba Prize for Drawing (2003). In 2001 her drawing Linen Dress was purchased for the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection and was exhibited the following year in “Ten years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing”.