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William (“call me Bill”) Robinson, one of Australia’s most distinguished living artists, guides us to the comfy chairs where he and Shirley – his wife and muse of 63 years, mother of their six children – like to relax over the morning paper.
Most pensioners would have it delivered, but Bill still drives to the newsagent at 6am before Brisbane’s traffic gets too insane: “I was being finger-signed and tail-gated.”
As Shirley brews the tea in a china pot – wheeled on a trolley with milk jug, sugar bowl and biscuits – Bill invites me to inspect the two birdbath sculptures in their lush suburban garden, bordering a creek that itself resembles a Robinson painting.