Group Exhibitions Participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1966, chiefly in Western Australia, but also in the UK, the USA, Singapore, China, Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and Adelaide

Solo Exhibitions 1970, 1972, 1973 John Gild Gallery, Perth
1974, 1975 Old Fire Station Gallery
1979, 1981 Gallery 52, Perth
1981 Shinju Matsuri, Broome
1982 Gallery 52 (Festival of Perth exhibition)
1984 Fremantle Art Gallery (Review exhibition)
1985, 1990 (Festival of Perth exhibition), Delaney Galleries
1991 Goodridge Gallery, Perth
1994 Mountford Gallery, Pemberton
2001, 2002, 2003, Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle

Awards 1969 Perth Prize for Drawing (Open Section)
1970 Australia Council development grant
1976 WA Arts Council, travel and study grant to Egypt and Jordan
1980 Australia Council, artist in residence at the VAB Sydney studio
1981 Mobil Oil/Pegasus Art Award
1982 Albany Prize for Drawing
1986 Arts Council of Great Britain, museum study tour to UK 2003 Maitland Prize for Drawing
2004 Pacific Palms Drawing Prize

Representation Artbank, Art Gallery of WA, BankWest, City of Fremantle, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, High Court of Australia, HM Queen Elizabeth II, the General Palestinian Delegation to Australia, Murdoch University, Holmes a Court collection, Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Royal Perth Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA Minister for the Arts, WA School of Art and Design, the Albany, Katanning, Manjimup and Mundaring Shire Councils and numerous private and corporate collections

Robert Birch has taught Painting and Drawing in the visual arts departments of the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, the WA College of Art and Design (TAFE) and the Hunter Institute of Technology. He has been appointed to peer assessment panels for the WA Department for the Arts and has served on the Murdoch University art acquisition committee as well as writing art criticism for the Fremantle Review and book reviews for The West Australian. He was, for several years, occasional art reviewer for the Newcastle Herald. He has illustrated a number of books. Prior to moving to New South Wales in 1996, Robert Birch was Senior Education Officer at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. He currently paints full-time.