[1][2] From 1974 to 1983 Robinson worked at the Australian Museum in Sydney as a designer, a position which allowed her to travel to remote areas of Australia.
These screen prints depicted iconic tourist destinations around the country such as Bondi Beach, Uluru (Ayers Rock),[5] Kakadu, The Twelve Apostles.
This voyage resulted in a series of ten silk screen prints documenting her response to the ice, history and wildlife of Antarctica.
[7][8] In the late 1990s Robinson made a shift from silk screens back to painting, which was her first love, incorporating and adapting the stencil technique from printmaking to create dynamic, pixelated surface textures in acrylic on linen canvas.
A deeply moving portrait of "The Artist's Mother" in the final stage of terminal cancer won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2012.