Cameron Robbins

Dream Studio 2025

Timber, bracing, paint, and repurposed objects
400 x 720 x 300 cm

About the Work

Dream Studio is about a sense of beauty and wonder at the dynamic world of nature, and how an artist might work with this and express this to an audience.

Cameron Robbins was inspired to create wind-driven drawings directed by the weather and environment of the Townsville coast.

Dream Studio is an art installation and a functioning outdoor studio within the public realm. It reminds the public that artists are always at work, and that what they do has cultural importance.

The mechanical instrument drawings are inspired by natural energy. The motion of the pen can be described as “Periodic with a fractional degree of freedom”, relating to the orbits of astronomical bodies, stochastic bundles of information, the rotation of prayer wheels, and abstract painting.

Cameron has always been inspired by the scientific style of collecting data and creating a body of knowledge from this direct evidence, and this work demonstrates that process.

In the face of denial of science, especially regarding climate science, Cameron believes it is vital to keep reminding people of the process of direct and careful observation of our world and its fragile beauty.

About the Artist

Cameron Robbins works to make tangible the underlying structures and rhythms of natural forces. Using wind-powered drawing instruments, his installations transcribe the invisible energies of nature—the wind, the tides and light—to create drawings, photographs, and moving image works.

These inquiries employ structural devices including kinetic wind or water-powered mechanical systems. Their aesthetic is the result of both careful engineering and resourcefulness. The outputs of these site-specific installations include wind drawings and sound compositions. These interpretations of the dynamics and scale of the physical world suggest the complexities of the unknown.