deb mostert

Animal as Object – nature and culture will run at the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre from May to October 2022. I have been mulling over ideas and making works towards this project for some years now and my research (pre-covid) takes me to the Queensland Museum on a weekly basis as I investigate the animal as an object in the context of both museum taxidermy and the souvenir.

I love drawing and especially the natural world, so to be given the job to produce thirty line illustrations for interpretive signage has been a delight. I look forward to seeing the signs when they are all printed and installed in the Arkarra Wetlands, Hervey Bay

Two very different works representing two ends of my painting spectrum! I am very grateful to be included in this collection and for these works to be hanging in the public hospital.

snuck in between lockdowns and we were grateful to be able to get 5 solid days of drawing in our sketchbooks from the natural world. A great group of enthusiastic students again.

Despite a last minute covid lockdown, the Summer School went ahead minus a few days.

It was great to be joined by a fun group of enthusiastic students who embraced drawing from life in a sketchbook as we investigated the natural world using taxidermy and drawing outside in the Japanese Gardens at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.