Babette Robertson is an Australian-born painter based in Paris. Her work explores the porous boundary between inner and outer worlds. While painting remains central, she also works across sculpture, installation, and robotics as vital counterparts.

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Her new work documents dreams—beginning with written accounts that are translated into watercolour studies. These dreams become source material for larger oil paintings and sculptures: wood inscribed with dream texts and beeswax objects that preserve the psychic residue. These works are not private visions, but fragments from a shared inner commons — a collective well of archetypal imagery.
 

Robertson’s early environmental projects examined the entanglement of human and nonhuman systems through systematic mapping and observation as seen in her ongoing project Every Fallen Tree (2018 - ) a project that documented 7,000 fallen trees in homage to Beuys’ oaks.

 

This new dream-based process emerged from rupture, shifting her focus to the unconscious as a generative terrain. The work traces how experiences transform in the unconscious—how a living tree, for instance, becomes a dream symbol, then artwork. The same careful observation once applied to forests and environmental decay now maps psychic terrain. Natural forms still appear, but changed: a fallen tree no longer speaks to ecology, but to memory—not fact, but feeling.
 

 Robertson insists on our immersion in shared systems, ecological and psychic alike. She is also interested in how the collective unconscious processes the violences of this moment. Dreams do not look away. They distort, repeat, and insist that we confront what waking life often obscures.

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