Robert Croft - artist statement 

Born 1984

Robert is a Geelong based artist living and working on Wathawurrung country, his current practice is in visual arts, performance & improvised music. Robert is a supported artist, who has lived experience of disability, with over 20 years experience, working across a variety of visual mediums. Robert doesn’t communicate verbally rather he allows his creative work to communicate for him.

He has developed a bold and highly tactile quality to his visual artwork. Taking great delight in the application of colour, texture and rhythm within his work. The layering of colour and texture Robert achieves through his creative processes demonstrates the instinctive & intuitive nature of his art making process.

Robert’s artwork could be perceived as abstract depictions of the landscape or floating forms within an immersive colour field which allows the viewer to be drawn into the artwork.   but mainly and most effectively his inspiration comes from the pure joy of creating & to leave his mark as all great artist endeavour to do. 

Robert is also a highly experienced live performer working with Back to Back theatre,  community program for over 10 years. Theatre of Speed experimental performance platform has developed in Robert a strong presents & awareness to his live performance work

Roberts experimental music making & performance project’s collaborating with sound artist Stephen Oakes as CROAKE. Now collaborating with Mark Cuthbertson as developed an improvised sound making collective. An immersive supported day program of art making and improvised sound making environment. Merging Robert visual arts making practice & his music making & performing, as a collective environment, how one influences the other as a creative process.

Robert’s artwork is finding strong support both locally & internationally, receiving strong funding support from Creative Victoria, commercial gallery representation with, Boom Gallery Geelong, &Gallery in Sorrento, His work is represented in Geelong Public Art collection & a large number of private collectors are all seeing great appeal in Roberts artwork & his artistic practice. 
In this dynamic series, Robert Croft creates abstract drawings on mirrored surfaces—marks that become reflections of both the artist and the viewer. Each line is a gesture of presence, a way of being in the world through form and rhythm.

The mirrored ground invites a layered encounter: image and reflection, surface and self. These works are not illustrative, but expressive—fluid, instinctive, and deeply personal. Robert’s process speaks through repetition and the tactile immediacy of mark-making.

Robert’s drawing becomes a quiet communion between artist and viewer, where meaning lives not in translation, but in presence. To look is to meet, however briefly, the trace of another’s world.