Sydney Harbour is a screen print by artist Sally Robinson in the Parliament House Art Collections.

Robinson's work is at once a celebration of, and an ironic comment on, her fixation on the landscape as subject. The atmosphere and colour of her work relate to the artist’s experience of arriving in Australia in 1960 from a cold and wet December in England to a summer heatwave in Sydney. In Sydney Harbour, Robinson encapsulates this sense of place in a way that brings warmth and the summer glare to the viewer. The print is built up into a composite scene from more than 10 reference photographs. Of her practice, Robinson says,

For most of the last twenty years my prints have dealt with landscape documenting Australian environments. To achieve this, I have used screen printing techniques. In the field I take both colour and black/white photographs and make colour sketches. Back in the studio, a montage of parts of selected photographs is made.¹  

Sally Robinson  
Sally Robinson (born 1952) is an Australian artist who was born in England and moved to Australia as a child in 1960. Robinson graduated with a Diploma in Art (Painting) from the National Art School, Sydney in 1973. She was one of the leading Australian printmakers of the 1970s to the early 1990s and became known for her bold and humorous depictions of Australian culture, landscape, flora and fauna. In her later career, Robinson has shifted interest to painting, primarily portraiture. Robinson has won the Kennedy Art Prize in 2021, the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2015 and the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2019 and 2012. Her work is represented in numerous state and regional galleries throughout Australia.

References  
1. Sally Robinson, ‘Biography’, Parliament House Art Collections, Artist Files.