Who is Gary Robinson?

Gary Robinson is a Longford-based artist with an intense local focus; he can paint a particular field or tree over and over again for years, and has used slabs of concrete from Longford pavements in his work. “If I go anywhere else, I can feel the difference. The work would not be the same,” he has said. Sometimes, his work begins with words accumulated in what he describes as “a random, haphazard fashion using grocery lists, handwritten notes, my own mutterings and overheard conversations…”

Of meeting him, Kingerlee says “Gary came to find me. Which is always an honour. So we chummed up together. A new friend, someone younger — we can learn from each other.”