Robert Jackson bought Jack Harrison’s tenor saxophone.
is a visual artist, multi-skilled musician and performer. He has been active since the 1980s.
He lives in the Huon Valley, Tasmania after re-locating from Melbourne in 2019. He has been a regular exhibitor at local shows. In 2021 he was a core musician role in the Creek Road Art Orchestra: an Australia Council funded project run by Kickstart Arts in Hobart.
Painter Robert’s main inspiration is the Australian landscape with its sense of space, forgotten and remnant areas, encroaching suburbs and industry, and is an exploration of the concepts of “Presence” and “Absence”: His recent work has focused on a distillation of landscape into its distinctive elements to examine the concept of identity and place. What makes “Here”, here? What makes a place distinctive? He has produced many artworks for public and private clients. He has had many solo exhibitions and is an award-winning muralist. His work is represented in public and private collections in Australia, USA and Europe,
and he has held numerous Artist-in-Residencies.
Robert studied music composition at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has been a featured soloist at Melbourne International Arts Festival and many contemporary music events. He has played in a multitude of Rock and Jazz bands and been MD/Composer for Circus, Film & Theatre. He was a founding member/co-
ordinator of The Melbourne Improvisers Association Inc., a committee member of the Make-it-up Club, and has sat on several Arts advisory boards. He has taught music, drawing and circus skills. He performs regularly with jazz-based trio The Chord on Bleus.
Qualifications
BA(hons) Linguistics, Latrobe University, 1984
Post Graduate Diploma of the Arts (Music) VCA 1990
5 year improvisation study with Al Wunder
Extensive musical improvisation study with Brian Brown