Robbie Porritt

1976 Graduated Curtin Uni - Winner Channel Seven Young Artists award.

1977 Praxis Gallery Perth Performance piece "I was a teenage donut."

1978 Purchased for the University Collection.

1979 Young Contemporaries Show UnderCroft Gallery University of WA.

1981 Became Lead singer in the Manikins
Exhibited at Gallery 52 Claremont Perth purchased by Janet Holmes a Court Collection.

1982-84 Professional Musician touring Australia and playing around Perth with the Manikins.

1985 Moved to Melbourne with the Manikins.
Art Works collected by Neil & Tim Finn, Greta Scacci, Peter Green, Paul Hester, NickSeymour.

1987 Graduated from Melbourne University Bachelor of Art Teaching. Prints and Etchings Graduate show Melbourne University.

1990 Teaching Art.

1992 Health Point Mural Commission Perth WA and Melbourne Art Fair PICA. Roccoco Pop Pictures

1993 Exhibited Picture This Gallery Gold Coast Queensland,
William Mora Galleries Flinders lane Melbourne,
Michael Milburn Gallery Brisbane Qld,
ClickGallery Kings Cross Sydney,
Club Tractor Touring Show,
Noosa Regional Gallery,
Holmes A'Court Collection PICA WA

1994 Travelled through Europe and SE Asia

1995-99 Settled in Fremantle,
Finalist in the Mandorla Art award Exhibited Art Place Gallery.
Blue Wave painting is collected by the Art Gallery of WA.
Exhibiting and curating art shows at Gino's Cafe WA,
Began writing and producing pilots for children's TV.

2000 Moved to Melbourne to establish a production house for producing animated TV show pilots.
Exhibited miniature paintings at Lisa's Salon Akland St St Kilda.

2004 Exhibited Jackman Gallery Melbourne. Fib & Moshi Paintings in collaboration with Andrew Gaynor.

2005 Teacher Design Tech - St Francis Xavier Berwick VIctoria.
Began painting private commissions.

2006 Became a father.

2007 Moved to Eumundi Queensland - Design Tech teacher - Good Shepherds Lutheran College.

2008 Published and exhibited Llyod Horn Collection Bubury Regional Art Gallery WA. Assistant Art and Design teacher - Sun Coast Grammar School.

Artist's Statement 2008

The Wave Series

THESE PAINTINGS ARE FOR ALL THE SALTWATER SMILES…for anyone who knows how it feels to let the sea wash their maladies away.

When I paint these paintings they take me to a special place in my heart and mind that remembers how it feels to splash, to dive and to arch my back in splendid bliss and surrender to a force I can anticipate but never predict. They are faux impressionistic and deliberately nostalgic.

The sea can be so wild, romantic, meditative, sexy… euphoric...a lyrical mesmerising pulse of the earth.
It's a lot like rock n roll and I love it!

The Buddha Butterfly Series

These are paintings from a parallel universe I sometimes inhabit…where circles of energy travel along pathways , passing, connecting, sharing space before moving on enriched or diminished to their next encounter. Maybe I will change them, maybe reenergize their core, give them more colours, make them appear more attractive, be more or less perfect.

Some have gold in their hearts and will try against all odds to absorb the wisdom of others and cherish their being… but this is a flat abstract universe, where the appearance of life is as simple as I can get it.

They are paintings that require extreme discipline to create and leave me with the feeling that simple colour and line can relate so much…they are painted in acrylic and gold leaf…a bit like funk music and you know I can't help but get down with that!