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Lynne Roberts-Goodwin (b. 1954, Sydney, Australia) is an artist whose photography, sculpture and video works are exhibited and engaged with internationally. Roberts-Goodwin completed her undergraduate studies in fine arts at National Art School, UNSW College of Fine Arts & The University of Sydney (Hons.). Awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales Moyra Dyring Travelling Art Scholarship, gaining Master of Fine Art (1981-1982) at University of Manchester, U.K.
Accumulatively, Roberts-Goodwin’s large-scale projects which primarily employ large-scale photographic mediums, form an ongoing estranged journey or narrative, tracking complex conditions of place that have had an impact, over time upon cultural consciousness. Over the last forty years, the artist has undertaken projects within remote terrains & photographed landscapes globally, documenting how ecological systems, borders & cultural traces are reshaping our planet. Through photographic projects of contested territories & environmental change (Dead Sea), endangered species (India), deforestation (Mexico), & salt mining extractions (Turkey and Western Australia), Roberts-Goodwin’s images are at times simultaneously sublime & terrifying, chronicling the insatiable demand for seemingly finite earth resources from rapidly accelerating & shifting displaced populations & cultural heritage. The artist has and continues to work on projects with aligned institutional support in locations such as India, Italy, France, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, North America, Mexico through to the Pacific regions of Japan, Vietnam, China to name a selected few.
Roberts-Goodwin and her work have been the subject of international residencies, fellowship awards, solo & group exhibitions within key cultural institutions, museums, & galleries. Residences & commissions include: ‘Artists in Focus: Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Museum of Contemporary art, Sydney, Australia 2025; ‘Contemporary Australian Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2025; ‘SCALE’ Artist Permanent Public Art Commission, Ex-Convitto Palmieri Museum, Lecce, Italy 2023–2026; BUNDANON TRUST, 2022 Bundanon Artist Residency, Bundanon, NSW, Australia; Affiliated Rome Scholar 2018, Mordant Family American Academy in Rome Fellowship, Creative Australia International Artists Residency; Wildlife Residency, Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam, 2016; DEAD SEA_DEAD CALM Project 2014 ongoing, JORDAN Environmental Project, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 2015/2016; MUST Museum Lecce, Italy 2014; Australia India Institute, ARTIST RETREAT, Jaipur, India 2013; ONDARTE International Artist’s Residency, Akumal, Mexico, 2012; Foundation Arabe pour l’Image Artist Residency, Beirut, Lebanon, 2009; AQIS Quarantine Artist-in- Residence, Sydney International Airport, Sydney 2005; ERWDA (Environmental Research Wildlife Development Agency) and EnvironmentAgency Abu Dhabi (EAD) Falcon Hospital Residency, Abu Dhabi, 2002; Rockefeller Foundation Artist Residency, Alfred, New York, 2001; UNESCO Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India; Sydney Sculpture Walk, Sydney City Projects: Sydney Council 1999-2000 Artists Commission ‘Tankstream….into the Head of the Cove’; Moya Dyring Paris Studio, Cité International des Artes Artist in Residence, Paris, France, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1982.
The artist’s work is held in numerous private and public collections, including:- The Museum of Contemporary Art; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Artbank; TAFE Collection, Bathurst, NSW; RMIT Collection, Melbourne; UTS Collection, Sydney; Westpac Collection; Australian Embassy, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Department of Trade & Foreign Affairs, Australia-India Commission, Delhi, India; HH Sheikh Zayhad Bin Sultan Al Nayhan & Sheikh Mohammad Bin Sultan Al Nayhan Crown Prince Private Collection, UAE; Cité Nationale Des Artes, Paris, France; University of Illinois, Chicago, US; Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester, UK; Medlock Fine Art Centre, Manchester, UK; Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, UK; Sloane Street Gallery, London, UK Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK; ERWDA (Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency) Collection, Abu Dhabi, UAE; NID Collection, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India; Private collections in Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Mexico, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia and private museums and collections internationally.
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin’s artworks evoke a resonant blend of sublime & terrifying beauty, transforming global extreme terrains into unfamiliar sites of fragility, majesty & peril. Her images capture moments that suspend time, inviting viewers to feel the silence & pressure of both ground & atmosphere. The beauty in her work embodies remoteness & ecological precariousness, reframing perspectives by shifting focus between vast horizons & minute details. In this oscillation, these landscapes serve as psychological mirrors, reflecting feelings of awe & vulnerability.
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