Robyn Varpins

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About Robyn

Artist, Teacher and Counsellor

Robyn Varpins has worked as an artist since finishing Art School in 1982. She has been involved in a wide variety of creative endeavours including teaching clay sculpture at the Fremantle Art Centre. She is also a qualified psychotherapy Counsellor, with a degree from Notre Dame University. She has always used her art as the way to know herself (a personal therapy), so studying Counselling was a natural development trajectory. Art and Psychotherapy complement each other beautifully and allow a variety of therapeutic responses.

Robyn enjoys painting but dedicates most of her time to making sculptures in clay. Her loving rendition of the human form conveys her passion for people and the human condition. Some of her clay pieces are stylized and symbolic, while others are realistic, yet with a rawness that makes them very intimate. She leaves the clay unglazed to express the interior experience of being human. Her use of coloured slips and paints reveals her fascination with colour. The clays used are strong raku clays that are suitable for in or outdoors.

CV

Education

1973-77

Art Scholarship Balcatta SHS, WA

1978-79

Completed two years of BA (fine art, Sculpture) at WAIT

1980-82

Completed Diploma of Fine Art (sculpture) at Claremont School of Art

1986

studied Architecture at UWA

2011

Certificate 4 Training and Assessment

2013-16

Bachelor of Counselling at Notre Dame University, Fremantle

Exhibitions

Solo and Major Shows

1985

Claremont School of Art Gallery

2004

two exhibitions at home gallery

2006

one exhibition at home gallery

2007

“Facination” with Julie Podolski and Peta Miller, Old Royal George, East Fremantle

2011

“According to Luke” with Author Rosanne Dingli, Colourlust Art Space, North Fremantle

2015

“W.A. Raw” with 3 others, Moores Gallery, Fremantle

2016

May: “Intermix” with 5 others, Moores Gallery, Fremantle

2016

Sept: “Facination” with Julie Podstolski, Earlywork Gallery, South Freo

2018

June: “Songs of Land and Sea” with 8 others, Moores Gallery, Fremantle

2018

Sept: “Remember Paris” with Julie Podstolski at Earlywork Gallery, S.F.

2021

April: “An Italian Dream” with Julie Podstolski at Earlywork Gallery, S.F.

2021

May: “Intermix 2020” with 4 others, Moores Gallery, Fremantle

2023

April: “Home and Heart, local love stories” with Julie Podstolski,
Earlywork gallery, South Fremantle

2023

Nov: “Human Nature” with 3 others at Terrace Greenhouse Gallery, South Fremantle

Group Exhibitions

1995

three shows with the Park Social Gallery, Mosman Park

2001-2

five shows with StArt Inc at Moores in Fremantle and Old George

2005-6

two invitation shows at Old George Gallery

2005-8

St Pauls Beaconsfield church yearly show

2006-10

CAAWA invitation yearly show

2007

invitation show at Brazen Art Space, South Fremantle

2008-9

invitation show at Hale School

2009

invitation show for City of Mandurah (recycling art)

2008-2016

many private exhibitions with a variety of Artists

2011-13

invitation shows at Colourlust Art Space

2012-2020

Yearly Invitation to Art Auctions for Soroptimists International

2014-2016

invitation shows at Perth College

2017

August: group show at Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall

2018

Sept: “KOPA”, invitation show at the Moores Gallery, Fremantle

2019

Oct: “Slipstream”, invitation show at Gallery Central, Northbridge

2020

Feb: “Stuff”, invitation show at Gallery Central, Northbridge

2021

Sept: “Atkal Kopa” group show at Laneway Art Space, Bayswater

Art Awards

2003

Town of Vincent—sculpture first prize

2003

York Art and Craft Society—sculpture first prize

2003

City of Kalgoolie/Boulder—sculpture first prize

2004

Town of Cambridge—certificate of merit

2004

City of Canning—sculpture second prize

2004

Mindarie—commendation

2004

Northam (AVAS) –sculpture first prize

2004

Town of Bassendean—sculpture second prize

2004

Coolgardie—sculpture first prize

2004

Town of Vincent—sculpture first prize

2004

City of Kalgoolie/Boulder—sculpture first prize

2005

City of Canning—high commendation

2005

York Art and Craft Society—ceramics first prize

2006

City of Canning—high commendation

2007

City of Canning—sculpture first prize

2007

Town of Vincent—sculpture first prize

2007

City of Kalgoolie/Boulder—Best in Show

2008

City of Canning—Aquisitive prize

2008

Lifestyle Villages show—high commendation

2010

Lifestyle Villages show—first prize active aging award

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