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EDUCATION
1957-59    Studied sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell National Art School, Sydney
1962    Post-Graduate Studies (Sculpture) under Sir Anthony Caro OM and Phillip King CBE, St Martins School of Art, London

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1963    Lecturer, St Martins School of Art, London
1965    Lecturer, East Ham Technical College and West Ham Technical College, London
1967    Lecturer, Goldsmith College, University of London
1969    Lecturer, Architecture Department, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1969   Lecturer, Sculpture Department, National Art School, Sydney (TAFE)

1978-89    Head of Sculpture Department, Canberra School of Art
1984    Executive Administrator/Participant, Sculpture Workshop and Seminar, Canberra School of Art in association with the Australian National University and the Australian National Gallery
1991-96     Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney (TAFE)
1997-2003    Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney
2003-2004    Acting Head of Sculpture Department, National Art School, Sydney.
2004-2006    Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney
2009- 2018    Head of Sculpture, National Art School, Sydney

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, RESIDENCIES AND CONSULTANCIES
1963-65    Assistant to Henry Moore OM
1968      Return to Australia
1973    A Founding Member, Visual Arts Board, Australian Council
1974    Acting Director/Administrator, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
1977    Contributor, 'Art in Architecture Conference", Adelaide
1977    Sculpture Workshop, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1978    Attended 10th International Sculpture Conference, Toronto, Canada
1978    Co-curator, British Council Travelling Exhibition; "Anthony Caro: Table Sculptures 1966-77" Australia and New Zealand
1978-80    Visiting Fellow, Burgmann College, Australian National University, Canberra
1979-81    Member of the Governing Council, Canberra School of Art. Chaired by Sir Richard Kingsland Ktcr, AO, CBE, DFC
1980    Adviser, Australian National University Art Collection
1982    Artist-in-Residence, Devon Community College, Devonport, Tasmania
1986    H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra
1995    A Founding Member of Friends of the National Art School (F.0.N.A.S)
1995    Member of Ministerial Task Force to establish the New National Art School. Chaired by Professor Peter Karmel AC, CBE
1997-2002    Consultant, Sculpture by the Sea and the National Series of exhibitions produced for the Olympic Arts Festival “A Sea Change”
2002    Awarded Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to the arts as a sculptor, teacher, mentor and advocate for sculpture, and to art education in Australia.
2003-2004    Board Member, Sculpture by the Sea Incorporated (on Register of Cultural Organisations.) Chaired by the Honorable Mr Justice Roderick Meagher QC.
2004          Curator, ‘Invitational Spectrum 2004’, Friends of the National Art School, Fountain Court, Parliament House, NSW
2004            Judging Panel, ‘The Art of Sheetmetal’, SIA Inaugural Sculpture Award and Exhibition for High School Students, Fountain Court Gallery, Parliament House, NSW.
2004    Curator, ‘Conversation Pieces’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2004    Introductory Address, Launch of Friends of Sculpture by the Sea (coinciding with Sculpture in the MLC), MLC Centre, Sydney
2004    Welcome Address, ‘Sculpture in Public Space: Sculpture by the Sea Symposium’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004-2005 Board Member, Sculpture by the Sea Incorporated (on Register of Cultural   Organisations.) Chaired by the Honorable Mr Justice Roderick Meagher QC.
2005    Member Sculpture by the Sea Incorporated (on Register of Cultural    Organisations.) Chaired by Mr Neil Balnaves.
2005    Study Tour of Sculpture Parks:    - France, U.K., Holland, Germany, Denmark and Iceland – commissioned by Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
2006    Study Tour of Sculpture Parks in Japan - commissioned by Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
2009    Tour leader with Dr Michael Hill, Architecture and Art in Denmark, Denmark    
2009    Attended the International Sculpture Centre, Lifetime Achievement Award honouring Frank Stella, New York
2009    Delivered lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, New York
2009    Delivered lecture at the New York School of Art, New York
2009    Study Tour of Copenhagen, Aarhus in Denmark and Sweden
2011     Tour leader with Dr Michael Hill, Architecture and Art in Denmark, Denmark
2013    Guest Speaker, Busan Biennale-Sea Art Festival, Busan, Korea
2015    Tour Leader with Dr. Michael Hill, Art in Denmark, Vienna, Plague  
    
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1968    Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1969    Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1969    Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
1970    Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1970    Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, USA
1972    Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1973    Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1974    Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1974    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1975    ‘Survey Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture 1965-1975’, Newcastle City Art Gallery, New South Wales  curated by David Thomas
1975    Solander Gallery, Canberra
1976    Gallery A, Sydney
1977    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1978    Gallery A, Sydney
1985    'Form as Narrative’, Orange Festival of Arts & Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales  curated by Peter Haynes
1985    Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1987    Painters Gallery, Sydney
1987    ‘Survey 1965-87’ (paintings), Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1988    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988    Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
1989    Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1991    Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1994    ‘Mixing Memory & Desire’, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1997    ‘Interplay’, Olsen/Carr Gallery, Sydney
1999    Olsen/Carr Gallery, Sydney
1999    ‘Sculpture on Site’, Sydney Festival, Royal Botanical Gardens & Opera House, Sydney (including commission of ‘Paradisio’)
2000    Charles Nordrum Gallery, Melbourne
2000    ‘Two Modern Masters’ Colin Lanceley (Painting)
     Ron Robertson-Swann (Sculpture) Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney
2005    ‘Assemblage’ Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney
2007    'Assemblage' Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2015      'Joy of Colour',Janet Clayton Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2016      'Landscape, Still Life, The Figure and More A Survey', Australian Gallery, NSW
2018           Melbourne Art Fair,'Radiant Colour, Clarity and Crisp Light in Embraced Space', Charles Nodrum Gallery
2018           'Radiant Colour, Clarity and Crisp Light in Embraced Space', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2019         ‘A Different Perspective’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2022   ‘Ron at Eighty’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1963    'Young Contemporaries’, Federation of British Artists Galleries, London

1963    ‘London Group', Federation of British Artists Galleries, London

1963    ‘Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture', Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany

1966    ‘Three Sculptors’, Kasmin Gallery, London

1966 ‘Chromatic Sculpture’, The Arts Council Gallery, 2 All Saints’ Passage, Cambridge, UK

1966    ‘British Sculpture’, Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Munich

1996-67    ‘British Painting and Sculpture from Leicestershire Education Authority Collection’, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1968    ‘New British Sculpture’, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

1968    ‘The Field’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1970    4th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria

1973    5th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria

1975    6th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria

1981    1st Australian Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe University, Melbourne

1982    Inaugural Exhibition, Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney

1982    ‘Abstract Australian Sculpture from 1970, A Continuing Tradition’, lrving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney

1982       ‘Australian Art of the Last Ten Years’ (Phillip Morris Art Grant), Australian National University, Canberra

1982    ‘The Seventies’, Australian Painting & Tapestries (National Australia Bank Collection), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1982    8th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria

1984    ‘Australian Sculpture’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1984    ‘The Field Now’, Heide Park & Gallery, Melbourne

1984    2nd Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1987    ‘Painters & Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art’,  Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1987    ‘Contemporary Australian Art’, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

1988    ‘Sculpture Park 88’, Gallery 460, Gosford, NSW


1988    ‘Drawing in Australia’, Drawings, Watercolours & Pastels 1770s-1980s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

1988    The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788-1988, National Australian Tour

1992    ‘A Group Sculpture Show’, Meridian Gallery in association with Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1992    Sculpture Park, Macquarie University, Sydney

1993    ‘Cultural Fertilizer’, works by Australian National University Arts Fellows from the University Collection, ANU Canberra

1994    ‘Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture’, Song He Tang, Beijing, China

1994    'On & Off The Wall’, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

1995    ‘Sculptors Who Paint’, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

1995    ‘Flagging the Republic’, Sherman/Goodhope Galleries in association with New England Regional Art Museum, National Australia Tour

1995     ‘Asia & Oceanic Influence’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1995    ‘Past It’s Shelf Life’, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne

1995    ‘Modern Australian Paintings’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

1995    Australian Art 1940-1900 from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.  “In search of an inner landscape”. Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Tokyo, Japan

1996    ‘A Box by Any Other Name’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1996    ‘Size is Not Important’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1997    ‘Box II" Defiance Gallery’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1997    ‘The Biggest Little Sculpture Show in Town’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1997    ‘Devoured by Paint’, Emerging and Established Artists, Olsen Carr Gallery, Sydney

1997    ‘I Had a Dream’, Australian Art in the Sixties, National Gallery of Victoria

1997    ‘Geometric Painting in Australia 1940-1997’, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane

1998    ‘Figure In the Landscape’, Defiance Gallery & King St Gallery, Sydney

1998    ‘The Defiant Six’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1999    ‘Five Easy Pieces’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1999    ‘Still Life’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1999    ‘Big Thoughts, Small Works’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

1999    ‘Volume & Form’, Singapore

1999-2000    ‘Old New Millennium’, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney

2000    ‘Sculpture 2000’, Access Gallery, Sydney

2000    ‘Tribal Echo’, Oceanic Arts Australia, Sydney

2000    ‘Tribal Echo’, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, NSW

2000             ‘6 x 6 x 6’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2000    ‘Half Metre Square’, Staff of National Art School - Cell Block, Sydney

2000    ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ Invited Artist, Bondi

2001             ‘Sculpture 2001’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2001             ’The Importance of Being Small, 6 x 6 x 6, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2001    “Federation, Australian Art Society 1901-2001”, National Gallery of Australia

2001    ‘Sculpture by the Sea’  Bondi, Sydney

2001    'Sculpture Inside' Bondi, Sydney

2002             ‘Sculpture 2002’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2002    ‘Towards Colour’, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC

2002             ‘Annual Miniature Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2003             ‘Sculpture 2003’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2003    ‘Sculpture in the Vines’, 8th Hunter Valley Harvest Festival, Lower Hunter Valley, NSW

2003    ‘Australian Masters’, Solander Gallery, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Sydney

2003             ‘Annual Miniature Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2003    ‘Duration’ and ‘Beneath the Surface’, Staff of National Art School, Sydney

2003           ‘This was the future…Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s + TODAY!’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, VIC

2003    ‘Great Works for the Great Outdoors’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2003             ‘Abstraction III’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2003-2004    ‘McClelland Survey & Award’, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC

2004             ‘Sculpture 2004’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2004    ‘Invitational Spectrum 2004’, curated by Ron Robertson-Swann OAM,    Friends of the National Art School, Fountain Court, Parliament House, NSW.  

2004        ‘Modern Australian Paintings’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2004    ‘Conversation Pieces’, an exhibition by Ron Robertson-Swann OAM in collaboration with fellow sculptors, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2004    'Spring’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2004    'Sculpture in the MLC’, Foyer MLC Centre, Sydney

2004    ‘The March of Miniatures’, 9th Annual 6x6 Miniature Sculpture Show,    Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2004    ‘Drawcard: The National Art School Postcard Show’, The National Art School, Sydney

2004    'What’s the Matter’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2004

2005    ‘Sculpture 2005’, Defiance Gallery and Defiance at Seymour Theatre, Sydney

2005    'Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe’, Cottesloe Beach, Perth

2005    'Sculpture Inside’, Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club, Perth

2006    'Sculpture by the Sea’  Bondi, Sydney

2006    'Sculpture Inside' Bondi, Sydney

2007    '27'  SNO Gallery, Sydney

2007    'Miniature Show'  Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2008    'Sculpture 2008'  Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2008    'Ephemeral Art at the Invisible Lodge' Freycinet, Tasmania

2008    'Hyogo & Australia State Exchange International Sculpture Exhibition'
     Asago Art Village, Japan

2008    'Abstraction 8' Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2008    'Miniature Show'  Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2009    ‘Drawcard' , The National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2009    'Gallery A Sydney 1964-1983' Campbelltown Art Centre & Newcastle Region Art Gallery

2009    ‘Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe’, Cottesloe Beach, Perth

2009    ‘Sculpture Inside’, Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club, Perth

2009    'Every Artist Remembered' performance piece with Agatha Gothe-Snape, ACCA,     Melbourne

2009    'After the Field' Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney

2009    'Abstraction' Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2009    'Sculpture by the Sea', Aarhus, Denmark

2009    'Sculpture Inside', Aarhus, Denmark

2009    'Tracking the Field' Art Gallery of NSW'

2009    'Cubism and Australian Art', Heide Museum of Modern Art

2009    'Abrstraction 8', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2009    'Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize', Sydney

2009    'Miniature Show', Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2011    'Preview 2011', Defiance Gallery Sydney

2011    ‘Sculpture by the Sea’  Bondi, Sydney

2011    'Sculpture Inside' Bondi, Sydney

2012    Melbourne Art Fair, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2012    'Controversy: The Power or Art', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

2012    'Artworks and Artwords' curated by Joe Frost, National Art School, Sydney

2012    'The Plate Show', FONAS, National Art School, Sydney

2012    'Abstraction 11', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2012    'Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize', Sydney

2012    ‘Sculpture by the Sea’  Bondi, Sydney

2012    'Sculpture Inside' Bondi, Sydney

2013    ‘Sculpture by the Sea’  Bondi, Sydney

2013    'Sculpture Inside' Bondi, Sydney

2013    'Abstraction 12'  Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2014    ‘Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe’, Cottesloe Beach, Perth

2014    ‘Sculpture Inside’, Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club, Perth

2014    'Art Unearthed' from the National Australia Collection, Alexandria, Sydney

2014    'Mildura Revisited: Sculptures Exhibited 1961-1978, curated by Ken Scarlett, Mildura, Victoria

2014    'The Combine' Studio W, Woolloomooloo, Sydney

2014    'Thin Ice²' Incinerator Artspace, Willoughby, Sydney

2014    'Sculpture at Sawmillers' McMahons Point, Sydney

2014    'Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award', Melbourne, Victoria

2014    '4 in Form', Ron Robertson-Swann, Koichi Ishino, Ayako Saito, Dave Horton, Janet     Clayton Gallery, Sydney  

2014    ‘Sculpture by the Sea’  Bondi, Sydney

2014    'Sculpture Inside' Bondi, Sydney

2015    'Sculpture by the Sea', Aarhus, Denmark

2015    'Sculpture Inside', Aarhus, Denmark

2015    'Sculpture Inside', Bondi, MSW

2016    Opening Show, Crawford Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2016    'Sculpture at Barangaroo', NSW

2016            Sculpture at Sawmillers, Mcmahons Point, NSW

2016             Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW

2017           Sculpture: Medium and Small Scale, Australian Galleries Sydney

2017           ABSTRACTION 16, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Vic

2017            Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi NSW

2017           Paintings, sculpture & works on paper-Group exhibition, Australian Galleries, Sydney

2018              The Field Revisited, NGV, Melbourne

2018              Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c, 1968, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Vic

2018            HillView Sculpture Biennial , Sutton Forrest, NSW

2018            Monochrome: Empty & Full, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne

2018              Abstraction 18: Further a-Field, 1970s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Vic

2018              Sculpture in the Paddock, Murrunbateman, NSW

2018             Beyond the Field (still), Moonah Arts Centre, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Tasmania

2018               Sculpture by the Sea Bondi, NSW

2019              Sculpture by The Sea, Bondi, NSW

2020               Sculpture in the Vineyard, Wollombi, NSW

2021              Small Sculpture - Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
                     Thin Ice 3, Incinerator Art Space, Whilloughby , NSW             
2022             “Vivid”, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
                    “Summer”, Australian Galleries, Sydney
                     Sculpture at Sawmillers, McMahons Point, NSW
                     “Sculpture in the Vineyard” Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival, Wollombi, NSW
                    Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
2023            “Sculpture by the Sea” , Cottesloe, WA


COMMISSIONS


1977    Tapestry Design, Dunk Island, Queensland

1978    "Vault", Melbourne City Square, subsequently relocated to Batman Park, Melbourne

1980    "Vertex", Devonport Jaycees, Tasmania

1984    "Leviathan Play", Queensland Cultural Centre, Brisbane

1997    Design N.S.W. Premier’s Public Sector Awards Medallion

1998    Design N.S.W. Premier’s Public Sector Awards Medallion

1999    Design N.S.W. Premier’s Public Sector Awards Medallion

1999    "Paradisio" Sydney Festival at the Sydney Opera House

2013              Prows on Swanston Street, Melbourne, Melbourne City Council

MAJOR AWARDS


1965    Painting Prize, John Moore Exhibition, Liverpool, UK

1969    Transfield Prize, Sydney

1969    Comalco Invitational Sculpture Award, Melbourne

1970    Mildura Purchase Prize, Victoria

1976    Townsville Pacific Art Festival, Queensland

1976    Grant - Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

1976    Alice Prize, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

1977    Bathurst Prize, Bathurst

1991    Stanthorpe Purchase Prize, Queensland

2008    Renaza Resources Sculpture Prize

2016           Artistic Excellence Program (supported by Leonie and James Furber)

2017           The Helen Lempriere Scholorships

2020        The Governors Sculpture Prize, Sculpture in the Vineyard, Wollombi Sculpture Festival, NSW


REPRESENTED IN MAJOR COLLECTIONS

Amstar Corporation, USA
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT
Colac City Council, Victoria
Cold Coast City Council, Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Collection  Sir Anthony Caro OM, London
Deakin University, Melbourne
Devonport Region Art Gallery, Tasmania
Leicester Education Authority, Leicestershire, UK
Macquarie University, Sydney
McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
Monash University, Melbourne
National Australia Bank
Transfield Collection, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery,
NSW Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Parliament House, Canberra
Performing Arts Centre, Geelong, Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery,  Brisbane
Queensland Cultural Centre, Brisbane
Riverina College of Advanced Education, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Queensland
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Transfield Sculpture Walk Walsh Bay ,“Transnewfield” 1968


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


Art International  "London Letter" Norbert Lynton, (VoIX/4) April 2O, l966

Studio International  "British Sculpture" Gene Baro, October 1966

Sculpture l966  Film by Robert Parker, London l966

Studio International  "Sculpture In The Open At Bristol" Statements by Garth Evans, Justin Knowles,
Ron Robertson-Swann and William Turnbull, May 1968

Art International  "Letter From Australia" Alan McCulloch, April 1969

Australian Sculpture, 1969 produced by Commonwealth Film Unit, 1969

In the Making  McGregor, Beal, Moore and Williamson, Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd 1969

Art International  "Sydney Summer" Ron Robertson-Swann, Cover Photograph (Vol XIV/2) January 1970

Art International  "Ron Robertson-Swann" Harry Nicolson, (Vol XV/2) February 1971

Art and Australia  "The Sculpture of Ron Robertson-Swann' Elwyn Lynn, (Vol 10 #2) October 1972

Architecture in Australia  "Ron Robertson-Swann" Tom Heath, August 1972

Art & Australia ‘Aspects of Geometrically Non-Figurative Sculpture in Australia’ Hutchinson, Noel S, January 1973
Australian Painting 1788-1970  Bernard Smith, Oxford University Press 1973

Architecture in Australia "The Sculpture of Ron Robertson-Swann" Grazia Gunn December 1974

Artemis  "Survey Exhibition Ron Robertson-Swann" The Newcastle Gallery Society (Vol 6 #2) March/ April 1975

Modern Australian Painting 1970-1975  Kym Bonython, Rigby 1975
Architecture in Australia  "The New Direction In Australian Sculpture" Harry Nicolson, August/Sept 1976
Ten Australians  Television documentary series for the ABC 1976

The Development of Australian Sculpture  Graeme Sturgeon, Thames and Hudson 1978

Aspect  "Ron Robertson-Swann" Rudi Krausmann, (Vol 3/3) July l978

Aspect  "Notes on Post-War Sydney Sculpture" Eneide Migancca, (Vol 3/3) July l978

Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand Max Germaine, Lansdowne Press 1979

Modern Australian Painting 1975-1980  Kym Bonython, Elwynn Rigby 1980

Australian Sculptors Ken Scarlett, Nelson 1980

The First Gallery in Paddington Edwards/Shaw 1981

Art International  "Modernism & The Language of Art" Alwynne Mackie, (Vol XXIV, 9-10) August/ November 1981
The First Australian Sculpture Triennial  Tom McCullough, La Trobe University 1981

The Years of Hope  Gary Catalano, Oxford University Press 1981
Australian Art Review  "Sculpture" Graeme Sturgeon, (Vol 1) 1982
Australian Art Review  "What's Left of Artists Right" Shane Simpson, (Vol 1) 1982

Art and Australia  "Four Sculptors: Maillol, Lachaise, Di Suvero and Smith" Alwynne Mackie/ Ron Robertson-Swann, Spring 1982

The Visual Artist and The Law Shane Simpson, The Law Book Company Limited 1982

The Seventies Australian painting and tapestries from the collection of the National Australia Bank, Editor, Robert Lindsay 1982

Australian National Gallery  "An Introduction" Edited by James Mollison/Laura Murray, Australian National Gallery Publications 1982

“The Seventies” Australian Painting and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, editor, Robert Lindsay 1982

The Phillip Morris Arts Grant "Australian Art of the Last Ten Years", Introduction by James Mollison, Australian National Gallery 1982

In The Public Eye - Public Art in Australia  Neville Weston, Visual Art Board 1983

Sculpture  Dover, Darby & Zunde, Victorian Department of Education 1983

Sculpture Now: The Second Australian Sculpture Triennial  Graeme Sturgeon, National Gallery of Victoria Publications 1984

Artists and Galleries of Australia  Max Germaine, Boolarong Publications 1984

Encyclopedia of Australian Art 1770-1980 - Vol 1 and II  Alan McCullock, Hutchinson Group (Australia) Pty Ltd 1984

Ron Roberstson-Swann  "Form As Narrative" Peter Haynes, Orange Festival Of The Arts 1985

Ron Robertson-Swann  "Recent Works" Graeme Sturgeon, Painters Gallery Catalogue 1987

Art and Australia  "Jacques Lipchitz: Musical Instruments 1925" Ron Robertson-Swann, (Vol 25 #2) 1987

Who's Who In The World - 8th edition 1987-1988   McMillan/Marquis, Who's Who USA 1988

Creating Australia 1788-1988 Art Gallery of South Australia, editor Daniel Thomas, 1988

The Penguin Australian Encyclopaedia Viking 1990
Who's Who in Australia  Information Australia, insert 1991 - 2006
Contemporary Australian Sculpture  Graeme Sturgeon Craftsman House 1991
Lyndon Dadswell 1908-1986 Deborah Edwards 1992

Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens  Ken Scarlett/Robert Walker, Cordon & Breach Arts International 1993

Art In America "Making Art Making Artists" Wader Saunders 1993

The Encyclopedia of Australian Art  Allan McCulloch/Susan McCulloch Allen Unwin l994

Ron Robertson-Swann  "Mixing Memory & Desire" P.J.Harris, Meridian Gallery Catalogue l994

Australian Art 1940-1990 From the Collection of the National Gallery of Australia “In Search of an Inner Landscape”  Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Tokyo, Japan 1995

Asia-Pacific Sculpture News  "Reaching Inside Metal Sculpture" Noel Hutchison, (Vol 1 #l) Winter 1995

Asian Arts News (Vol 5 #5) "Past It’s Shelf Life " Review by Terry Whelan 1995

Ron Robertson-Swann: 1959-1969 Ann Carew, The University of Melbourne, 1996

This I Believe  "Ron Robertson-Swann" Ron Robertson-Swann, Edited by John Marsden, Random House l996

Bruce Radke  "Unity in Deversity" Ron Robertson-Swann, Canberra School of Art Alumni 20th Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue 1996

Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997  David Pestorius, University of Queensland, Melbourne 1997

Art in Australia  "From Colonization to Postmodernism" Christopher Allen, Thames & Hudson 1997

Artwise  Glenis Israel, Jacaranda Press 1997

'Framed' Photographs of Australian Artists by Michael Lawrence, Hardy Grant Books 1998

Art Write  " Heavy Metal" Genevieve Carson (Issue # 18) 1999

World Sculpture News  "Inge King & Ron Robertson-Swann at The Sydney Festival" Peter Harris  (Vol 5 #4) Autumn 1999

Art Link  (Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly) "Larrikins in London: 35 years on" Nick Waterlow (Vol 18 #4) 1999

The Australian,  "This Living Century" 1999

Pick the Primatives  "Tribal Echo" Oceanic Arts Australia & Campbelltown City Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald 22 April 2000

World Sculpture News  "A Wealth of Talent" Peter Harris, "The Power of Miniature" Peter Harris, "Tribal Echo" Victoria Hynes (Vol 6 #2) Spring 2000

Federation, Australian Art and Society 1901-2001 The National Gallery of Australia, Curator John MacDonald 2001

The Age ‘Yellow Peril Prepares to Move’, Gabriella Coslovich, 15 February 2002

Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia editor Anne Gray, contributing author Ron Robertson-Swann 2002

Architectural Review ‘Public Liability’, Andrew MacKenzie, Issue 083, Autumn 2003

Melbourne ‘Art and About’, Greg Burchall, Issue 007, May 2003

The Weekend Australian ‘No Longer a Bridesmaid’, Susan McCulloch, 27-28 December  2003

Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, editor Anne Gray and Ron Robertson-Swann contributing author 2003

This was the Future, Australian Sculpture of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's & Today Heide Museum of Modern Australia 2004

The Sunday Age ‘Vault’, Chris Beck, 4 March 2004

Peril in the Square: The Sculpture that Challenged a City Geoffrey J. Wallis, Indre Publishing 2004

The Age ‘Peril in the Square: The Sculpture that Challenged a City (book review)’, Penny Webb, 21 May 2004

The Age ‘Yellow Peril, public art that made a city see red (book review)’, Alan Attwood, Review,19 June 2004

The Australian Financial Review ‘Peril in the Square’, John McDonald, Thursday 24 June, 2004

Elgee Park: Sculpture in the Landscape Ken Scarlett, MacMillan Art Publishing, 2004

Sculpture by the Sea 2004 Catalogue, ‘Sculpture and other Health Hazards’, Ron Robertson-Swann OAM, 2004

Hope in Hell – A History of Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School Deborah Beck, Allen & Unwin, 2005

'Encyclopaedia of Australian Art' 4th Edition, McCulloch and McCulloch, 2006

Art Detective, Michele Stockley, Heinemann 2006

Find, Culture Secrets, Melbourne City, Michelle Matthews, 2006

'Untitled' Portraits of Australian Artists, Sonia Payes, Maxmillian Art Publishers 2007

Australian Art Review, Issue 15 2007-2008 'Public Sculpture, Who Needs It?' Ashley Crawford

'Brought to Light II' Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006 Queensland Art Gallery, editors Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington 2007

Look Art Gallery of NSW 'The Well', Defiance Gallery, 2007

'The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture', Phaidon 2008

Sydney Morning Herald 'Sculptors are in Their Element' Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark.  John McDonald, June 13th 2009

Craft Arts, International 'Sculpture by the Sea in Denmark' John McDonald, Issue 77, 2009

The Australian, 'Hard Work' Christopher Allen Oct 17th 2009

Sydney Morning Herald 'Good Intentions Lost at Sea', The Miniature Show. Defiance Gallery, John McDonald, Nov 14th 2009

'Australian National University School of Art:  A History of the first 65 years' Michael Agostino, publisher A.N.U School of Art, 2009

Australian Art Review, National Art School, Sculpture Department 2012

Australian Art Review, Melbourne Art Fair, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2012

“Acccounting for Taste”, Prof. Sasha Grisham, The Lowenstein Collection 2014

“Hidden Vault: Tributes to 'Yellow Peril' sculpture found in public places across Melbourne”, Simon Leo Brown, ABC Radio Melbourne, 5 April 2016


“Oral History and Folklore Collection”, Interview with Michelle Potter for the National Library of Australia : 2017

“Bouncing Back”, “Insight” SBS T.V. 2017

“From yellow peril to pure gold: 40 years on, Vault has been vindicated” , Ray Edger, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 March 2018

“Cultural Conversations”, http://www.cultconv.com/English/Conversations/Robertson_Swann_Ron/HTML5/testimonybrowser.html