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1971
Born in Victoria (AU)
Robert Bridgewater obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University in 1992 when he also won the National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award. He went on to complete a Graduate Diploma of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995 from where he had also received the Post Graduate Encouragement Award the previous year. In 1995 he also won te Kangaroo Ground Award for Sculpture. In 2000 Robert lived and worked in London during an Australia Council Studio Residency. Robert is the current recipient of the Parks Victoria Studio Residency at Warryndyte.
Solo Exhibitions
2002
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2000
Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne
1998
Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne
1997
Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne
1996
Agricultural, Temple Studio, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002
Central Goldfields Art Prize, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria
2001
wall, floor, ceiling, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
Grounds for Sculpture, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
Fundere Art Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Nillumbik Art Prize, Montsalvat Gallery, Melbourne
Old Landscape: New Garden – Sculpture at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat, Victoria
2000
Deacons Graham & James Award 2000,
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Sculpture 2000, Access Art Gallery, Sydney
1999
Moët et Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Probe, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne
Spacetime – Monash Alumni, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1998
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
Resourceful, An Australian Ethos, Ararat Gallery, Victoria
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne
Concurrence or Contrast – Sculpture in the Dandenong Ranges Gardens, Victoria
Long Distance, Nicholson Street Gallery, Victoria; Switchback Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Moët et Chandon Touring Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide Enough Space, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
1997
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Deacons Graham & James/Arts 21 Award Exhibition, University of Melbourne Gallery, Melbourne Roundness, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne
1996
House of Windsor Studio Group Exhibition, QDOS Contemporary Art Gallery, Victoria
Third Anniversary Show, Ether Ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne
The National Sculpture Trail, Victoria University Footscray Campus and Footscray Park, Melbourne
Gasworks Seventh Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
Sculpture 3, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne
1995
Sculpture at Heidelberg, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne
Excursion – Three Person Show, Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne
Continuum and Contrast, McClelland Gallery, Melbourne
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
Victorian College of the Arts Post Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1994
Victorian College of the Arts Sculpture at the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
Victorian Student Sculpture Survey, University of Ballarat, Victoria
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
Meridian Gallery Christmas Group Show, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1993
Artworkz 5, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1992
Snare, Monash Studios, Melbourne
Monash Summer Salon, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1991
First National Art and Design Students Exhibition, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Sub-6, Malvern City Council, Melbourne
Collections
Artbank, Sydney
Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria
Monash University, Melbourne
Nhill Secondary College, Victoria
Parks Victoria, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne
Tabcorp, Melbourne
Victoria University, Melbourne
Private collections
Publications
Martina Copley, ‘The Architecture of Skin’, Robert Bridgewater, exhibiton catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2002
‘Carving a Place’ (photograph by Craig Abraham), The Age, 7 March 2001
Bala Starr, Deacons Graham & James Award 2000, catalogue essay, 2000
Peter Timms, ‘Sizing Up for Better’, in Today, The Age, 28 June 2000
Scott Brown, Moët et Chandon 1999 Touring Exhibition, catalogue essay, 1999
Robert Nelson, Spacetime – Monash Alumni Exhibition, catalogue essay, Melbourne, 1999
Roger Taylor, ‘A Forest of Poems’, World Sculpture News, vol 5, no 3, Summer 1999
Anne Epstein (Ed.), Australian Family – Images & Essays, Hyland House, 1998
Penny Webb, ‘No, Thanks, Just Touching’, The Age, 27 November 1998
Louise Bellamy, ‘A Fair to Remember’, in Money & Investment, The Age, 19 October 1998
Anna Clabburn, ‘Gardens and Galleries’, The Age, 25 March 1998
Anna Clabburn, Moët et Chandon 1997 Touring Exhibition, catalogue essay, 1997
Anna Clabburn, ‘Of Things Glass and Wood’, Herald Sun, 30 July 1997
Rachel Kent, Deacons Graham & James Award 1997, catalogue essay, 1997
Robert Nelson, ‘Deacons Award; About Face’, The Age, 9 July 1997
Robert Nelson, ‘The Year in Review’, The Age, 1 January 1997
Robert Rooney, ‘Robert Rooney on Art’, The Australian, 4 October 1996
Robert Nelson, ‘Apart from the art, a good show’, The Age, 25 September 1996
Robert Nelson, ‘Two more than junk junkies’, The Age, 3 May 1995
Ken Scarlett, ‘A Democratic Showcase’, Australian Art Monthly, vol 75, November 1994
Sonia Harford, ‘Fringe art maybe but not on the edge’, The Age, 13 October 1994
‘Bent and Twisted’ (illustration), Herald Sun, 12 October 1994
Christopher Heathcote, ‘A work of art or just an object?’, The Age, 24 September 1993
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Public exhibitions 4 
Solo shows 1
2007
Robert Bridgewater - Little Light of Mine
 Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Group shows 3
2006
Blue Chip VIII
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
2004
Fiona Foley - Wandering / Robert Bridgewater
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
2001
Wall Floor Ceiling
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Dealer Directory 1
Australia
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Catalogs
Auction results
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