Robin Wallace-Crabbe

He is best known as a writer and visual artist where he has moved between the two mediums for over fifty years, having had thirteen novels published (either in Australia, the UK, and the USA), five under his own name, and eight under the pseudonym – Robert Wallace, and since the early sixties he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Australian capital cities.

In 1996 he received a Creative arts Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU) where he produced a limited edition book titled Scratchings.

If artists don’t find pleasure in their studios he argues that it is because they are not focused on making art, but on a business called ‘being an artists.’ [7] Rather than ‘being an artist’, as McDonald suggest, Gary Catalano argues that Wallace-Crabbe is in search of the primal psychological aspects of picture making, ‘… Wallace-Crabbe wants to recapture something of the freshness of perception that comes naturally to children when they are first exposed to the external world.’.

Then about three months later Geoffrey Dutton gave it a very good review, mentioning that I think Patrick White and David Campbell had drawn his attention to it.

Finlay Lloyd publishers explain: Hartmann Wallis, [...] has a wild and somewhat incestuous relationship with the well-known author and artist Robin Wallace-Crabbe.

The short biography claims Hartmann spent much of his life living in either Australia, or in an outsider community in remote Northern Canada.

[16] Hartmann's poems were describe by Peter Keneally as: "... a glorious romp or rant, ranging across history, the minutiae of surburbia, and acerbic view of the literary and artistic world.