Cameron Robbins works to make tangible the underlying structures and rhythms of natural forces. He has a studio and travel based practice, making installations and exhibitions transcribing natural forces into drawings and sound works, in art centres and other sites in Australia and around the world including Japan, Norway, South Korea, China, Denmark, Germany, UK.

Wind Anomaly II
I have made a permanent wind sculpture at Husky apartments at Falls Creek, Wind Anomaly II. This piece reflects many experiences and observations made up in the high country: nature/culture, meteorology, geology, surveying. The uppermost part is free to move with the wind in an intriguing x-y-z spherical orbit, providing endless interesting movements to watch.
At 4.8 metres high, It is very robustly engineered from 10mm steel plate, brass, carbon fibre and aluminium, to withstand even the most ferocious high country drinking binges. Wind Anomaly 1 was a lighter, more adhoc sculpture made from found objects, a surveying tripod, and aluminium tube. It was completely destroyed during a night of high spirited revelry by a group of amateur art critics.
The new work has happily danced around in the gales and snow storms since 2011.

The Quartz Spanner
Installing Wind Anomaly 1, I was to stay at Husky apartments where it was going in. Upon arrival I went into the kitchen to ask where I could find a key for the apartment. Being tired from the journey and preparations, and maybe a little pumped up with the excitement of the installation, I spoke rather brusquely the well dressed kitchen hand, who was chopping beans. ‘I am C. Robbins and am installing a SCULPTURE (imagining I would have to explain) here and need my key and please let everyone know I’m here’ . The kitchen hand behind her bandanna started asking the most pertinent questions about my sculpture. ‘How big is it, what materials have you used, what is the concept behind this work” I was thinking ‘ I’ve come to the right place - even the kitchen staff are right into art’ . In the end I said thanks, ‘I’ll get the key now - oh I’m Cameron’, and she said “I’m Anna”.
Speaking to P Bennetts a bit later on, I related the story of the super-bright kitchen hand - he looked startled. “Anna? There’s only one Anna here”. I had finally met Anna Shwartz in person.

This inspired an hoc work of which no documentation exists - a landscape arrangement of Quartz into a Spanner shape - Spanner Quartz