Awards

• 1977  QEII Arts Council Material Grant 

• 1981  New Zealand Film Commission Grant for A Grasp of Wind 

• 1982  QEII Arts Council Studio Grant 

• 1984  QEll Arts Council Studio Grant 1986 QEII Arts Council Travel Grant 

• 1989  QEII Arts Council Major Support Grant 

• 1990  BP Art Award 

• 1994  Grant for Art Festival 1994 u

• 2004 Contemporary New Zealand Quilts 2004    first price designed by Robert Franken Made by Katherine Morrison

Bibliography

BRES, 37, ROBÈRT FRANKEN pp: 120-123 Robèrt Franken Forum Boekery [The Hague] [1972]

 EDGE, pp: 69 & 70 Autumn/Winter Caveman Press [Christchurch] [1973]

 SONIC, 2, [Illustration of work included in the Sonic Circus II, organised by Jack Body], [Wellington] [1975]

NEW ZEALAND PAINTING SINCE 1960: A STUDY IN THEMES AND DEVELOPMENTS, pp: 83 & 170, Peter Cape Collins [Auckland] [1979]

ART NEW ZEALAND, ROBÈRT FRANKEN. 40, pp: 29,90 Susan Foster The Art Magazine Press [Auckland] [1983]

SKYWAY [The Air New Zealand in-flight magazine] [July] THE NEW ZEALAND LISTENER, 20 August Don Long [1983]

 ART NEW ZEALAND, ROBÈRT FRANKEN 29,9, pp: 17-18 Avenal McKinnon The Art Magazine Press [Auckland] [1984]

 ART NEW ZEALAND, ROBÈRT FRANKEN: THE TRADER AESTHETIC, 40, pp: 40-42 Ian Wedde The Art Magazine Press [Auckland] [1985]

NEW ZEALAND ART: A MODEM PERSPECTIVE, pp: 76, 90-82, 90,198, 205 Elva Bett Reed Methuen [Auckland] [1986]

THE NEW ZEALAND LISTENER, 30 September 1989 (title and page numbers unavailable] Don Long Fabrications, pp: 27 & 98 Anne Nicholas Random Century [NZ] Limited [1990]

ISLANDS. 19 PAINTERS AND THEIR FAVOURITE WORKS, Summer 1994

 NEW ZEALAND ART FOR INVESTMENT Fred McLean [1996]

 DICTIONARY OF NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS [2000]

WHO IS WHO IN NEW ZEALAND Alastair Taylor [2001]

 DVD including “A Grasp of Wind ” movie made in 1982 and little movie made in my studio 1974 including stills of my works produced in that era , and interview with Don Long writer in my present studio . 2015 

  2017  Catalogue of the Beijing Biennale

Represented

Museum of New Zealand. Wellington. 

  Robert McDougall Art Gallery.Christchurch. 

  Wellington Public Library. [Civic Square], Wellington.