Finalist in Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2015

For the 8th consecutive year I am a finalist in the EMSLA at Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery, N.S.W. with this work entitled ‘We travel a lot so collecting these made sense’ Bartailed Godwit Vintage Airline bags 2015 46 x 61 cm watercolour  

15 Artists

I was curated into 15 Artists at Redcliffe Art Gallery. The opening night was the first chance to see the other artists involved and I was very happy to be hanging with such  high calibre of artists. Lindy Lee’s beautiful work ‘Stealing Bamboo Shoots’ was acquired by the gallery for it’s collection. Other artists involved were […]

Artist in Residency at Coorparoo State School

This year we had a strong focus on drawing and the habit of keeping a visual diary. Sketchbooks @ School was hugely successful and many happy drawings later the children went home with their very own sketchbook and hopefully a new enthusiasm for drawing.

Vogels en Dingen near sellout

the opening night was fun with lots of lovely people attending and many of the birds flying off to new homes. 12 out of 15 works sold before or on opening night. My dealer Lorraine Pilgrim and Susi Muddiman (Director of the Tweed Regional Art Gallery) who graciously opened the exhibition.           […]

Public Art Commission

The Mater Hospital Springfield through Independant Arts Management have commissioned 12 works for the hospital rooms. An artist in residence project with local school, St Peter’s Lutheran saw us brainstorming ideas about birds and what they might collect, drawing them and then making our own birds from paper and wire.  

New Venture coming soon

          I am involved in a new venture coming soon called Art500. It’s a unique website that features original contemporary artworks from Australian artists. Every quality art work available on this site will be for sale for $500 or less. The artists taking part are all professional Australian artists with exhibiting […]

Next Solo show in May

I am currently working towards a new body of work entitled Vogels en Dingen (Birds and Things) which will open on the 30th May with my dealer Lorraine Pilgrim. It continues the fascination with collections and the birds who might hoard them.

McGregor Summer School

I had the great pleasure of hosting a 10 day workshop on keeping a visual diary at the McGregor Summer School, University of Southern Queensland in January. We had a huge amount of fun filling our diaries with everything we saw and experienced in that tightly packed 10 days.      

Selected for 2014 A.M.E Bale Art Prize for Works on Paper

my drawing entitled Facing Myself  has been selected to hang in the A.M.E Bale Art Prize, works on paper. This will be hung as part of the 2014 Bale Art Prize to be exhibited at Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria from the 4th December.  

attended Future Forward

                      Thanks to the generosity of a NAVA and Arts Qld Travel Bursary last weekend I was able to attend Future/Forward at Carriageworks, Sydney. This is the first National Visual Arts Summit to be held in Australia. With over 40 speakers, including artists, curators, writers, […]

Recent Works at Regional Arts House

                    Exhibition opened by Mr Ian Walker, Minister for the Arts.                                                                

Shortlisted for the Eutick Memorial Still Life Awards 2014

‘I guess I’ll never be satisfied because there are always more out there’ Kingfisher and Fish Knife 92 x 92 cm  has been selected to hang in this years EMSLA at the Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery. This will be the 7th consecutive year my work has been selected to hang in this national prize. […]

Teaching at McGregor Summer School

I will be running a 10 day workshop at the McGregor Summer School at USQ in January 2015. Bookings being taken now http://artsworx.com.au/coming-events/visual-diary-private-playground/  

selected for Redlands Art Awards 2014

A new larger version of the Frogmouth  has been selected to hang in the Redland Art Awards 2014 held at Redland Art Gallery from 12th October – 23rd November  

electronic catalogue now available

Objects and Ornithology can now be viewed online via this link. http://pub.lucidpress.com/debmostert/ feel free to view and share this link as it has the entire collection of works in catalogue form. Click through pages and embedded galleries to see all the works in this exhibition.      

Objects and Ornithology

                  This is my 13th solo show and will be opened on the 8th August at Tweed Regional Gallery by Tracy Cooper – Lavery, Director of  Rockhampton Art Gallery. The exhibition will run until the 12th October 2014.  Please join me at either the opening or the […]

Winner Best of Show

‘I guess I’ll never be satisfied because there are always more out there’ Kingfisher and Fish Knife was awarded Best of Show at the Ipswich Art Awards. Judged by Stephanie Lindquist, Director of the Redlands Regional Gallery, it also won Best Still Life.

Stu Larsen in the studio

A month ago I had the wonderful opportunity to have musician Stu Larsen come to the studio for a few days and sit for me. Stu travels the world playing his music and had just come back to Australia briefly after several years touring with Passenger. He is a very genuine fellow with a simple […]