Hostage Moon, Rob Ikin (#088)

Hostage Moon
Rob Ikin
Mixed Media
45cm x 32cm

Robert Ikin, born in Hobart, one-time lighthouse keeper for five years off the southern coast of Tasmania, 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, has been exhibited in many site specific projects at 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 2010 & 2013 Kulturele Evenementen Groepen in Schijndel and 2010 Patagonia Studios in Eindhoven. From 2013 has done a residency at Launceston Church Grammar, 2 Group Exhibitions, installed corridor works at Launceston General Hospital, worked in his studio on mixed-media pieces and recent print editions.                                                                                                                                                

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.