Robert Baines: Metal

Return to index of past exhibitions
Download a PDF version File size: 5.6 MB
View images from the gallery

Craft ACT Gallery: 19 August - 24 September 2011

Robert Baines: Metal was officially opened by Emeritus Professor David Williams AM, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre Patron, on Thursday 18 August 2011.

Robert Baines is one of Australia's most prominent and influential jewellers and goldsmiths. His exceptional craft skills and extraordinary body of work are honoured through Object Gallery's Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series. With wry humour, his works challenged our understanding of the world as much as they delight with their technical brilliance. Robert Baines: Metal was supported by Object's National Exhibitions Strategy funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.

Launched in November 2005, the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft series is an initiative of Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design that is promoted by Craft Australia and supported by the network of Australian Craft and Design Centres, (ACDC). Each year, through the combination of a national touring exhibition and a major monograph publication, the series celebrates the achievements of Australia's iconic and influential crafts practitioners.

For more than 30 years, Robert Baines has profoundly shaped Australian jewellery, object-making and international historical scholarship. With wry humour, his works challenge our conception of the world as much as they delight with their technical brilliance. A professor of RMIT University, Melbourne, where he continues to teach gold and silversmithing, Baines' multifaceted practice encompasses his work as an artist-goldsmith, scholarship in archeometallurgy, and ongoing criticism and commentary in the field of contemporary crafts.

Read more about Robert Baines on the Craft Australia website.

Images

Robert Baines, Bloodier than Black - Brooch, 2008, silver, powdercoat, electroplate. Photographer: Jeremy Dillon.
Robert Baines, Brooches 6 and 7 from the series Hey True Blue, 2010, silver, powdercoat, electroplate, paint. Photographer: Jeremy Dillon.
Robert Baines, Redder than Green - Neckpiece, 2009, silver, powdercoat, electroplate, paint. Photographer: Jeremy Dillon.

Craft ACT is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and all state and territory governments, and also gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance it receives from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian government's arts advisory body. Craft ACT is a member of ACDC, Australian Craft Design Centres.