Robert Rooney was a painter, conceptual artist and photographer, best known for his hard-edge abstract paintings based on the shapes and patterns of ephemera from his suburban life in Melbourne. The bright, sharp, repetitive and entirely enigmatic Canine capers VII 1969–79 takes its repeated, rounded shape from the cut-out crafts once printed on boxes of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Designed to form toy animal mobiles, Rooney morphed them into a kind of visual music in a pun that conflated the words ‘cereal’ and ‘serial’.