b 1973. Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
Books/Catalogues:
Golfers / Glass 2000 - Afterword by Carlo Gebler. ISBN: 0 9539587 0 1
Wonderland / GenerationYacht 2003 - Forward by Andrew Gellatly. ISBN: 0 9545969 0 0
Lee Valley Leisure / GenerationYacht 2005 - Forward by Camilla Brown. ISBN: 0 9545969 1 9
The Extreme Golf Manual / Barrons 2005. ISBN: 0 7641 3239 3
Picturing Eden (group) / Steidl 2006. ISBN: 386 521 2077
The Mushroom Picker / Violette Editions 2012. ISBN 978 1 900828 41 3
Penny Bun Helps Save the World / GOST 2018. ISBN 978 1 910401 24 8
Museum Collections:
George Eastman House, Museum of Film and Photography, Rochester NY.
The Museum of Fine Art, Houston TX.
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2024 - The Betsy Hotel, Writers' Room, Miami, Florida, Artist in residence.
2021 - Best Film - Fungi Film Festival (The Boat)
2015 - Grants for the arts - Arts Council England (Penny Bun Helps Save The World)
2013 - D&AD awards (The Mushroom Picker - Penny Bun's Great Escape)
2005 - Individual development fund - Arts Council England (Lee Valley Leisure)
2004 - Consort Royal Design and Print Awards 2004 (Wonderland)
Television and Radio:
2014 - The Food Programme (Mushrooms), BBC Radio 4
2012 - BBC Radio London (Extracts read from, ' The Mushroom Picker')
2007 - Britain in Pictures (Episode North West / Northern Ireland), BBC 4
Group Exhibitions:
2024 The Ashmolean, Oxford, Bettina Von Zwehl - Wunderkammer.
2021 UnNatural History. Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry.
2014 Factual Nonsense. Red Gallery, London.
OnLandscape (Selected books). Guest projects, London.
2013 An Unusual Garden. Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
UNSEEN - The Photographers Gallery. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2009 Picturing Eden. Johnson Museum of Art – Cornell University, NY.
2008 Picturing Eden. Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA.
2007 Picturing Eden. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa, IA.
2006 Picturing Eden. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
2004 Fantastic Realism. Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia.
Polaroid. Gallery 39, London.
Solo Exhibitions:
2003 Wonderland. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N.I.
Wonderland. Photofusion, London.
Computer Portraits. Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, N.I.
Golfscapes. Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, N.I.
2000 Golfers. Clotworthy Arts Centre. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
1998 Drive-by-shooting. Freud Gallery, Covent Garden, London.
Selected periodicals and reviews:
Beyond Division. Source, p22-23, Spring 1998.
Sweet, Matthew. 'Sporting chance'. The Independent magazine, p16-17, 25th March 2000.
Gebler, Carlo. 'Modest souls'. Olympus Portfolio. Source, p25-29, Issue 22, Spring 2000.
'David Robinson'. themepark, Issue 2 - nature, 2000.
'Rossnowlagh, Donegal, Ireland - 12.07.99'. In the Frame. The Independent magazine,14thJuly 01.
'Club Class'. Putt magazine. p12-20, issue 1, 2001.
Thompson, Claire. 'The Big Picture'. Focus. The Daily Telegraph, p12-13, 31st March 2001.
'Show some devotion'. Portfolio. Blueprint, p66-71, March 2002.
Crowley, John. 'Catch This'. Forum. The Daily Telegraph, p21, 31st May 2003.
Scott, Cloe. 'Beauty is in the eye of Disney'. Metrolife. Metro, p22, 22nd September 2003.
'Top Ten photography shows in the UK'. Art Preview, October 2003.
'David Robinson: Wonderland'. Pictured, p35, October 2003.
Tebbs, Paul. 'The party's over'. The Architects Journal, p62, 30th October 2003.
DeWitt, Melissa. 'David Robinson's Wonderland'. Hot Shows. Hotshoe International, October/November 2003.
Edwards, Ken. 'Nothing like the real thing'. Books. Blueprint, November 2003.
'Making Distory'. News. Sleaze Nation , p10, November 2003.
'Best Photography Books'. pdn - The Annual 2004, p87, May 2004.
Rickett, Sophy. ‘From darkroom to street kitchen’. SPOT magazine, HCP Fall 2012.
Smyth, Diane. ‘Are you sitting comfortably’. British Journal of Photography, February 2013.
Film Screenings:
The Boat
Cork Film Festival, November 2021
Festival Cinema Jeune Public, Lausanne. November 2022
Fungi Film Festival, Seattle. November 2021
Tampere Film Festival, Finland. March 2022
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival. August 2022
Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo. June 2022
Chicago Irish Film Festival. March 2022
Copenhagen Short Film Festival. October 2021
American Documentary and Animation Festival, Palm Springs. April 2022
Los Angeles Animation Festival. December 2021
Short to The Point, Bucharest. April 2021
Cartoon Club, Rimini. July 2021
Ortometraggi Film Festival, Turin. Sept 2021
Radical Mycology Convergence, Oregon. October 2022
California Museum of Natural History, San Francisco. January 2022
Hamburg Maritime Museum. August 2022
The Rio, London. November 2021
Close-Up, London. July 2023
Underline, Open House/Beck Road, London Sept 2023
New York Mycological Society Film Festival. October 2023
The National Trust Emmetts Garden Fungi Festival 6-29th October 2024
The Fungi Room, London. 5-17th April 2024
MAX3MIN, Milan. October 4-11th 2024
The Ice Skater
Berlin Flash Film Festival. May 2020
Roma Cinema DOC. May 2021
Animated Arizona Film Festival. January 2021
60 Second International Film Festival, Islamabad. August 2020
Life Screenings one Minute Film Festival, Florida. April 2021