Robert Boynes (born 1943) is a contemporary Australian artist working primarily in painting, but has also produced prints, films and sculptures.
The latter exhibition featured his work Department Store, which signified a turning point in the artist's early career.
A solo show, In Plain Sight, was held at the May Space in Sydney in 2015, and in the same year, his work Auto Sex was acquired by the AGNSW.
[2] After returning to Australia in 1970, Boynes held an exhibition at the Bonython Art Gallery in Sydney, between February and March of the same year.
Some critiques on his works disappointed him, the fact that the intellectually sophisticated nature of his imagery and its concomitant statements about sexual and social aggression and alienation seemed to be lost, made the artist started to rethink his aesthetic position.
One of his most important artworks Let's Make Things Perfectly Clear from this period was thereafter represented in 1975 and was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
He held an exhibition at the Gallery A in Sydney in 1981, in which his work showed architectural spaces (often arches, vaults or curving corridors) overlaid with a lushly applied painterly surface.
From 1984 he had produced works through the theme of construction and destruction, but it was progressively changed to Australian bush landscape in 1995.
The ongoing visualisation of the "possibilities for glimpsing something of the inherent energy, continuity and illusive mystery underlying human experience and memory" remain at the core of his art.