Babette Robertson is an Australian-born artist based in Paris. While painting is her primary practice, the methods of walking, ceramics, installation, robotics, performance, and GPS technology inform her work.

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Her process is cyclical: she moves beyond painting into other disciplines and returns, much like her habit of leaving the studio and urban spaces before coming back.

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At the heart of Robertson’s work is the understanding that humans are not separate from ecological systems but are embedded within them. This perspective guides her exploration of dissolving the perceived boundaries between “humans” and “nature,” forging connections between subjective experience and the physical world. Her focus is on our shared immersion in fundamental natural forces.​

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Walking is central to her practice. By distancing herself from human-made structures, she examines how human activity shape elements like air, water, vegetation, and geology. She focuses on specific features encountered on her walks—such as riverbank erosion or fallen trees—which become the foundation for her paintings and installations. These works bring together the materiality of the landscapes she traverses with the technology that defines life in the Anthropocene, such as GPS-enabled devices.

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Robertson holds a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School, supported by the Clitheroe Foundation scholarship.

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