Robina is known internationally for her art quilts. Her business Wild Scarves is about creating art scarves inspired by the wild spirit of nature. She was a foundation member of Quilt Gallery at the Metro Craft Centre (Meat Market). Her studies include, diploma of Art/Studio Textiles at RMIT , Business Studies, Interior Decoration and Photography.
She lives in the Bend of Islands, on the Yarra River near Melbourne with husband and daughter. She has three sons, one grandson and two granddaughters.
AWARDS
2006 Advanced Diploma TCF (studio Textiles) –high distinction
RMIT union Arts Grant
“Scarf of the Year”,Spotlight Award for Best scarf at Craft Victoria’s Melbourne Scarf Festival,
2005 Handworks Award for Best Mixed Media scarf at Melbourne Scarf Festival
Judges Award for Miniatures ‘One Step Further”
1990 Best of Show, S.E. Field Days
1989 2nd National Nulook Competition
JURIED
2006 World Quilt Competition, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania National Quilt Expo
Pacific International Quilt Festival
Greater Chicago Quilt Festival
2005 One Step Further (Vic Quilters)
Across Australia, Mesdagh Museum the Hague, then travelled throughout the Middle East by Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade.
2002 Journeys, - the Immigration Experience,
the Immigration Museum Melbourne Australian Bounty, France, Holland, UK & Australia.
Fireworks (one of 52 people worldwide selected from 1500 entries) Germany, Spain & USA
1999 World Quilt & Textile Expo, North Carolina, USA
Small Wonders, Portland Oregon, USA
2008 Toile De l’Australie (with Tony Summers) Gordon Gallery, Geelong
2007 Under Thread, Federation Square
Sense of Place, , Melbourne, Damascus, Paris
Pattern. Lumina Gallery, East Malvern
2006 A Place by the Yarra, Montsalvat
Expositie Australie, Netherlands
2005 Wish you were in Australia , Michigan, USA
Two by Two, Spring Festivals, UK
In the Garden, Crown Showroom, Melbourne
9x5, Artstreams, Warrandyte,
2004 Organic ,Eltham Wiregrass
Nillumbik Shire Offices (solo)
2003 Organic, London, UK
Ephemeral Sculpture, Panton Hill Winery – commissioned by Nillumbik Shire
Twisted, Montsalvat
2002 Twisted, ,London
One for the Road, Gellibrand River, Vic.
Australian Bounty, France, Holland, UK, Aust.
Onto the Wall, Eltham Library
SOLO
2006 Waves, Samson Hill Estate, Kangaroo Ground
2005 It’s a Wrap, Tony Smibert Gallery, Kangaroo Ground
Quilts at Bridges, Hurstbridge
2004 Sheer Bliss, Samson Hill Estate, Kangaroo Ground
Red Box Leaves, for the opening of Red Box Winery, Kangaroo Ground
Textile & Textures, Lovegrove Winery