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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

"Faces and Places", Brummels Gallery, Melbourne. 1974

"Into the Hollow Mountains: A Portrait of Fitzroy", Brummels Gallery. 1976

"Between Light and Dark", Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. 1976

"Between Light and Dark", Brummels Gallery, Melbourne. 1979

"Adventures in Paradise?", Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne. 1979

"Adventures in Paradise?", Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. 1987

"Photogravure Images", United Artists Gallery, Melbourne. 1990

"What are you Doing? What are you Saying?," Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.

1993

"Hidden Things", Qdos Gallery, Lorne. 2000

"Life Sanctuary", Patricia Autore Gallery, Melbourne.. 2001

"Different Dreams-Same Reality", Patricia Autore Gallery, Melbourne. 2003

"Evidence", Little Malop Gallery, Geelong.. 2005

Visual Instinct, Libby Edwards Gallery - Melbourne. 2006

Recogniton, Pigment Gallery, Prague. 2007

Snapshots from the edge, QDOS Gallery- Lorne. 2007

Photographs from the edge, Monash Gallery of Art 2009

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane. 1982

The Thousand Mile Stare, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.1988

Artery Gallery, Geelong. 1988

Qdos Gallery, Lorne. 1990

Special . . . It's Been Used Before, Luba Bilu Gallery. 1991

Survey - A Regional Review, Geelong Art Gallery.1991

Waterproof-Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon Portugal. 1998

Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of NSW. 2003

Ulrich and Schubert Photography award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery. 2007

Bowness Photography prize, Monash Gallery of art. 2007

SELECTED PUBLISHING

Into The Hollow Mountains - a Portrait of Fitzroy. 1974

A Day in The Life of Australia. 1981

A Day in The Life of Victoria. 1982

The Thousand Mile Stare. 1888

Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers. 1990

Sites of the Imagination . 1992

Worshipping Mamon, Today's Art, Geelong Advertiser. 1993

Waterproof, water photography since 1852. 1999

Trace - Photos & Poetry / with Gregory Day. 2003

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Australian National Gallery

National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Phillip Morris Collection

Melbourne City Council

Monash Gallery of Art

John Sands Collection

Various municipal and private collections in Australia, Malaysia,Czech Rebublic

and USA

 

Robert Ashton has been photographing and

exhibiting his work since the early 1970s. His

photographs are held in the Australian National

Gallery, as well as the Victorian, New South

Wales

and Tasmanian Galleries, and various private

collections in Australia, U S A, and Europe.

He works in black and white and very recently

in colour, using the camera to record the

cultural

marks we make in our environment. He is the

co author with Gregory Day of "Trace", a book

of poems and photographs made on the west

coast of Victoria, Australia where he currently

lives and works