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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