Robyn Backen: Backspace

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This book examines two decades of work by the Australian artist Robyn Backen. Her practice ranges from small- and large-scale installations through to site-specific public works. Most of these works are temporary. Only a very small number are permanent, or semi-permanent - that is, created for a specified life span. 

This inbuilt mortality that characterises most of Backen's work is not something that can be redressed or undone; it is deliberate. Like many artists in Australia in the 1990s who were attracted to the methods and meanings of installation art, Backen's intention was (and is) to create ephemeral works.