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During his ten years in oil and mineral exploration throughout the outback of Australia Robert Pope became a senior sesmic geo-draftsman and in 1964 settled in Alice Springs, Northen Territory. His paintings of the Centralian landscape gained recognition and in 1966 he opened The Pope Art Gallery. Two years later he won the Northern Territory Caltex Art Award. In Perth, during the early 1970's, he ran, at his own expense and in collaboration with the Western Australian Department of Native Welfare, a special and successful art school for aboriginies. From this experience he became convinced that Western Science, by ignoring human creativity, had been built upon completely false assumptions. In 1973 the Western Australian State Government awarded him a bursary to continue his research into the relationship between the two cultures of science and art. In 1978 Robert was appointed Artist-in Residence at the Waite Research Institute of the University of Adelaide where his science-art theories attracted overseas scientific interest. The following year the Science Unit of Australian National Television investigated his claims and included his work into the international television series titled THE SCIENTISTS - PROFILES OF DISCOVERY. In the same year UNESCO appointed him as a special Australian Science-Artist delegate to the World Summit Meeting of Science held in Trieste to honour the 100th anniversary of the birth date of Albert Einstein. His landscape art was also honoured by the the inclusion of a reproduction of one of his Centralian paintings into the prestigious 'Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand', Vol 1 (1979). His work at his Science - Art Research Centre, founded near Berri in the Riverland of South Australia, earned him the local government title of Artist to Berri, in 1979. In August, 1980 the entire issue of SCIENTIFIC AUSTRALIAN was completely dedicated to his Science-Art and the quest to develop ancient Greek philosophy of art into a new discipline of Creative Physics. In 1989, Robert Pope was appointed Artist-in-Residence to the University of Sydney to work on the campus alongside a team of cancer researchers. From 1987 to 1990 the Science Art Centre had life-energy papers by its mathematician published within Italy's leading scientific journal, IL NUOVO CIMENTO. In 1991 two of these were reprinted by the SPIE Milestone Series in Washington as being amongst some of the most important papers of the 20th Century. In 1992 the work was extended into a special mathematical Book Supplement by the Hadronic Journal Society in the USA. In 1994 the work became an Important new physics book, internationally declaimed for the discovery of new physics laws governing optimum (human) biological growth and developement. This validated Robert Pope's original Science-Art research program which had been highly acclaimed by Professor John Taylor, the Head of the Department of Mathematics at Kings College, London University. In 1989, Robert Pope, together with his artist colleague Robert Todonai, were invited to launch their Science-Art book TWO BOB'S WORTH in Los Angeles by the Hollywood Thalian Mental Health Organization. Upon his return to Australia, Robert Pope was awarded the Dorothy Knox Fellowship for Distinguished Persons by the Dunmore Lang College at Macquarie University. His published modification to Leonardo da Vinci's THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE succeeded in predicting the discovery of a vast new biological science and technology made in 1993 by an international team of scientists. One of the principal discoverers, Foundation Professor Barry Ninham of the Australian National University wrote that Robert's work encompassed a revolution of thought as important to science and society as the Copernican and Newtonian revolutions. In 1995 the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia was incorporated in order to be awarded the status of AN APPROVED RESEARCH INSTITUTE by the Australian Government. In 1996 Robert Pope altered the ancient Greek concepts of good and evil to read as health and disease and outlined a completely new science of medicine. His work was validated the following year by the success of the Australian $30 million nano-machine science of medicine experiment. Robert Pope's studio's are located at the Science-Art Research Centre near Mt Warning in Northern New South Wales. The Centre is a magnificent stone mansion surrounded by the landscaped tropical gardens which look across to Queensland from the beautiful Tweed Valley. The Centre is working toward an international travelling Science-Art exhibition to involve scientists around the world who are working at the cutting edge of Creative Physics research. By portraying their ideas linked into the human survival theme of the exhibition it is hoped to centralize relevant scientific papers at the Science-Art Centre. This information is to be collated into a computer logic matrix with the aim of obtaining simulations for a blue print for human survival and for the betterment of the global condition. This theoretical forerunner to a future survival technology is to be based upon the function of universal creativity in which mankind will be able to play an integal role. This project has been acclaimed by prominent scientists and academics as a major Australian National Resource. In 1998 the United Nations University endorsed Robert Pope as a prominent Futures Author in a C.D Rom for international tertiary education. Robert Pope recieved his OUTSTANDING PEOPLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY AWARD from the INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL CENTRE in Cambridge, England in 1998. His theories are listed in the 1998 Marquis WHO'S WHO OF THE WORLD, THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF HONOUR and the DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPH
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