| Biography
Robertson studied forestry at Edinburgh University and attended evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art. He worked as a forestry officer in Malaya and Hong Kong 1946-1959 and exhibited at the British Council in Hong Kong in 1959. Robertson studied at the Academy of Fine Art, Florence (1959-60), before returning to Scotland to paint full-time. Exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute, 1964 and then later that year held his first one-man exhibition, at the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow. 1965, moved to Norfolk and set up a Comminity of Artists at Crow Hall, Downhall. Group exhibitions of paintings by Robertson and other Artisits from Crow Hall were held at The University of East Anglia and at Peterborough Art Gallery in 1967. 1968 Robertson began to create environmental installations, working with movement, light and sound exhibiting 'Visual Fair' at the King's Lynn Festival. During that period he also embarked of creating sculpture involving painted wooden constructions and these were shown at the Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge. He exhibited regularly in the 70s, showing for example, in the group show 'Electric Theatre' held at the ICA Gallery, London, 1971. Between 1972 and 1978 he held at least four solo exhibitions. Two major exhibitions of his work have been held since his death in 1978, the first at Southampton Art Gallery, 1982 and then followed in 1986 by a retrospective at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh. |
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