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Name	Bertram Ainslie Roberts
Alternative Names	Ainslie Roberts
Born	12 March, 1911 London, Middlesex, England
Died	28 August, 1993 (aged 82) Blackwood, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Scottish Welsh Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Mountford, Charles Pearcy (friend) Mudie, Ian Mayelston (colleague) Jungarrayi, Gwoja (collaborator) Lockwood, Douglas Wright (collaborator)
Occupation *	commercial artist (1929-1937) South Australia, Australia advertising executive (1937-1952) South Australia, Australia surrealist artist (1960-1993) South Australia, Australia painter (1963-1993) South Australia, Australia
Awards	Member of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1993)

* Dates are approximate