About
Robert McFarlane was born in Adelaide in 1942 and has been a documentary
photographer for more than four decades - specialising in social issues
and documenting performance in film and theatre, mostly within Australia.
He worked in London from 1969 to 1973, freelancing for the Daily Telegraph
Colour Magazine, Art and Australia NOVA and the Sunday Times Colour Magazine.
For the past twenty years Robert has written critically on photography
for the Sydney Morning Herald and a number of magazines from B+W to the
Bulletin, Art & Australia, the Financial Review Magazine and Good Weekend.
His
photographs are held in the permanent collections
of the Art
Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery,
the National Library of Australia and numerous private collections.
Robert
McFarlane has been married twice - to the artist Kate Burness and the
theatre director Mary-Ann Vale. He has two children: Morgan (1974-1994) and
Billy (1990- )
He is represented by the Josef Lebovic Gallery in Sydney.
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