Robert Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people, his Country is the lands and waters of the Broome area in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. His work investigates the personal and family histories that have been denied or forgotten. Andrew’s work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country—using technology to make visible the interconnecting spiritual, cultural, physical, and historical relationships with the land, waters, sky, and all living things.
Andrew’s work often combines programmable machinery with earth pigments, ochres, rocks and soil to mine historical, cultural and personal events that have been buried and distanced by the dominant paradigms of western culture.
Born in 1965 in Perth, Australia, Andrew lives and works in Brisbane. His work has been presented in major exhibitions in Australia and Internationally including: Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2020; The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2019; Colony: Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, 2018; Experimenta Make Sense, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; and Ars Electronica, Austria, 2017. His recent solo exhibitions include: Our Mutable Histories, Ellenbrook Art Gallery, Perth, 2019; Data Stratification, Kapelica Gallery, Slovenia, 2018; and Our Mutable Histories, Museum of Brisbane, 2017. His work is held in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), and Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane.
