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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:

2004 - Consort Royal Design and Print Awards 2004  (Wonderland)

2005 - Individual development fund   - Arts Council England (Lee Valley Leisure)

2013 - D&AD awards  (The Mushroom Picker - Penny Bun's Great Escape)

2015 -  Grants for the arts  - Arts Council England (Penny Bun Helps Save The World)


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:   

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.




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