exhibition history
“In Dunedin, working in old warehouse studios, her early work became associated with the grunge aesthetic of Alastair Galbraith, Michael Morley, Ben Webb and James Robinson. It showed, too, some evidence of the influence of the early Jeffrey Harris. Since 2003 she has exhibited steadily at various galleries in Dunedin, Invercargill, Gore, Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, Christchurch and Wellington”
David Eggleton / Art New Zealand Issue 161/ 2017
solo exhibitions
>>Artist and artwork - >2005
2022 Three Paintings & Configuration @ The Daily Coffee, Dunedin. 11.2.22
2021 Drawing from Life Agency Tattoo, Dunedin 2.6
2021 Reflected Space Laneway / Dunedin 9.5
2021 Movement, Stillness, Silence. Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
2021 Selected works / Laneway / Dunedin
2020 Beyond the Mirror / Kiki Beware / Dunedin
2019 Mudramask The Band Room / Dunedin
2019 Selected Works The Band Room / Dunedin
2017 Private Studio Exhibition / Studio Shed /Otago
2013 Hands in the Void Morning Magpie /Dunedin
2013 Selection of work from Silent Language Nectar / Dunedin
2013 dRawings Thistle Hall / Wellington
2013 Conduits Taste Merchants / Dunedin + Music from Stephen Kilroy
2013 Silent Language Forrester Gallery / Oamaru
2012 dRawings Eastern Southland Gallery / Gore
2012 dRawings Aigantighe Art Gallery / Timaru
2011 Selected Drawings / Mash / Dunedin
2010 Impassioned Eye The Church / Dunedin
2010 Spastic Fantastic Things I would have burnt or horded
Lanyop Gallery / Dunedin
2010 Petite Visage The Arthouse /Christchurch
2010 Drawings Ashburton Public Art Gallery
2009 Drawings 09 Dowling Street Studios / Dunedin
2008 Flesh and Energy The Arthouse / Christchurch
2007 Chrysalis Temple Gallery /Dunedin + Music from Kahu
2006 Drawing 2006 Dowling Street Studios / Dunedin
2006 New Work Preview Exhibition /Dowling Street Studios / Dunedin
2006 New Work The Arthouse / Christchurch
2006 Installation + Performance Westpac Bank / Dunedin Fringe Festival
2005 States Of Being Temple Gallery / Dunedin
2004 New Work Community Gallery / Dunedin
2003 New Work Cleveland / Dunedin
2003 Four Paintings Vertigo / Christchurch
Group Exhibitions
2023 kete whakairo selected works at The Bakery Window, Middlemarch.
2023 Cleveland Art awards Dunedin
2021 Port Chalmers Art Auction Port Chalmers. 3.6
2021 Godskull The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery
2019 The Animal Attic Escapes The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery
2018 Edinburgh Reality Premier Exhibition / Dunedin
2015 West Otago Art Show Tapanui
2014 Opening the Gate City Gallery, Invercargill
2013 Miniatures James Robinsons Studio, Port Chalmers
2013 Anderson Park Spring Art Exhibition, Invercargill
2013 Love is Blind A Mid-Winter Art Auction, Dunedin
2013 Parkin Drawing Awards, NZFA, Wellington
2010 Group Exhibit, The Arthouse
2010 Dowling Street Group Exhibit
2009 Dowling Street Group Exhibit
2008 Group Exhibition Temple Gallery
2007 Group Exhibition Temple Gallery
2007 Group Exhibition Temple Gallery
2007 Reprise ‘Re-engineering the painting’ Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2006 Off The Hook Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2006 Crowded House The Arthouse, Christchurch
2005 Encounters The Arthouse, Christchurch
2005 Crowded House The Arthouse, Christchurch
2005 Southern Light Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2005 A Group Show Dowling Street Studios, Dunedin
2005 Large Art Cleveland, Dunedin
2004 Group Exhibition Cleveland, Dunedin
2004 Group Exhibition Nonefest, None Gallery, Dunedin
2004 Big Works Cleveland, Dunedin
2004 Cleveland Art Awards Dunedin
Other Showings
2019 ‘Silent Language’ Central Stories Gallery / Alexandra
2019 Selected works at Pea Sea Art / Port Chalmers
2018 ‘White Figure’ AYU / Dunedin
2018 Works on paper Morning Magpie / Dunedin
2017 Selected works at O Tawhiri Gallery / Middlemarch, Otago
AWARDS
2020 Finalist - ITL Art Awards
2018 Finalist - Edinburgh Reality Premier Exhibition / Dunedin
2012 Finalist - Anderson Park Spring Art Exhibition / Invercargill
2013 Finalist – Parkin Drawing Awards / NZAFA / Wellington
2005 Winner of The Invercargill Licensing Trust Art Awards
Phantom Billstickers cafe reader /Vol.16 summer 2017 / New Zealand / Artwork - “Encounter”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 The Ensign ‘Exhibition displays a lifetime of artworks’ - pg31 24.3.21
2017 Phantom Billstickers café reader feature artist Vol.16 summer, page 41
2017 David Eggleton / Art New Zealand Issue 161
The Topography of the Body: The Artworks of Jo Robertson Autumn 2017
2012 Raw cold shaped drawings The Ensign - Gore, 11/7/12
2012 New Show at art gallery Easturn Southland Gallery Newslink 26/7/12
2012 Exhibition explores form & figure of ex-Waikoikoi artist Newslink 19/7/12
2010 Impassioned Eye James Dignan 7/10/2010
2012 Pictures have layers of meaning Aigantighe Gallery Timaru Herald
2007 Jo Robertson / Chrysalis Otago Daily Times 4/10/07
2007 Chrysalis Peter Entwisle 2007
2007 Chrysalis Gyro / Issue 7/10/07
2007 Powerful gestures straining to break out into the world
Otago Daily Times James Dignan 13/09/7
2006 Jo Robertson’s Enigmatic figures Sunday Star
2006 Watch for Robertson Sunday Star
2005 Framed: Critics Select Their Best Of 2005
Otago Daily Times James Dignan 22/12/05
2005 States Of Being James Dignan Otago Daily Times, 21/4/05
2005 States Of Being Deadline 05
2005 Large Art Exhibition Joanne Campbell Otago Daily Times
2004 Nonefest James Dignan Otago Daily Times, 04