About.

Meanjin-based artist (Queensland, Australia)

B. 2001

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Queensland College of Art & Design)

Toyah Robinson’s practice focuses on the inherent interconnectedness between our lived experiences and space/place. Whether it is always taking notice of a particular sticker that is stuck around the city, seeing the same graffiti artist pop up everywhere, witnessing pieces of mess and chaos that feel intimately familiar or having a moment of feeling connected to a stranger because of your shared experiences.

She captures these ephemeral elements of the every day and presents them in a meticulously curated moment that is presented in a permanent format – painting. It refines, intensifies and reifies these transient experiences that are already available to us in day-to-day life into a tangible solid object that the viewer can stare at and reflect on for as long as they wish.