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 history and formal qualifications. Their work is wonderful and varied, they are also lovely people and artists that I admire. I am very pleased to be a part of this venture and I am sure you won’t be disappointed if you wished to join the Art500 mailing list.
http://amandavangils.us2.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=5645c35156d7af032f2c6be11&id=46017d1dbd
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, academics, journalists and thought leaders from legal, media and ethics backgrounds the idea was to generate ongoing debates of the future of the Australian visual arts sector. I enjoyed the 2 days, mainly the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with fellow artists.
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. Judged by John McDonald, art critic.
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.
opening night!
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 public programme of an artist floor talk and a demonstration in the gallery 21st September.
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 philosophy of travelling light though life, he has few possessions and no fixed address
and in his own words- ‘You look at me as if I’m a vagabond…. well, maybe I am’.
I’m happy to say the work I made from our time together in the studio has been selected for the
Glencore Percival Portrait Painting Prize held in the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville. 9th May – 13th July 2014
This biennial prize exhibition offers a $40,000 major acquisitive prize, with the winning work entering the City of Townsville Art Collection.
This year it will be judged by the new director of the National Portrait Gallery Angus Trumble.
Stu Larsen – Vagabond. oil on plywood 35 x 43 cm web
Stu hangs again!
Another painting I did of Stu last year has also accepted into the Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards.
Stu Larsen – Jacinta Moore 2013 40 x 31 cm oil on linen
Meg in Milburn Prize
I have been pre selected for the Milburn Art Awards held at the Brisbane Institute of Art
with this work of my daughter Meg. The show runs 2nd – 14th May 2014 at BIS, Windsor.
EMSLA travels to Parliament House
My work ‘Little Things Grew By Continual Accumulation’ – Magpies Collect 40 x 76 cm oil on linen is touring with EMSLA (Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize) and is on display at Parliament House, N.S.W 1st April – 8th May
Flying Arts Regional Art Awards
Agnieszka and Vonny (2012 oil on panel 41 x 61 cm) was curated by Tim Morrell into this years Flying Arts Regional Art Awards. The opening was held at the State Library of Queensland 1st February and the show will tour around regional centres for 2014.
