Always a very full seven days as I tutored an ‘Everyday’ Sketchbook workshop with lovely enthusiastic students at USQ Toowoomba. Keep an eye out for Mc Gregor Winter School in July where we will be ‘Drawing Humans’ in our sketchbooks.
The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation (KAAF) Art Prize is an annual art prize that aims to foster the Australian multicultural society by bringing artists together from diverse ethnicities. In its 9th year, the KAAF Art Prize is open themed and medium to 2D artworks and has both acquisitive and non-acquisitive cash prizes totalling $24,000 for the artists. As the exhibition & venue partner, the Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) Australia has been presenting the finalists show and awards ceremony. 2022 Judges : Mr John McDonald, Mr Oliver Smith, Prof.
I have new works, both painted and sculptural, in this exciting group show with Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Southport. Exhibition runs until 27th February 2023 at 87 Ridgeway Avenue, Southport call Lorraine 07 5532 7170 for sales enquiries
In this project, I worked with the Brisbane Sustainability Agency to produce 30 gouache colour illustrations which became part of interpretive signage for the newly opened Archerfield Wetlands. This wetlands is part of the larger The Oxley Creek Transformation project. It is a lovely walk around the wetlands with so many birds to see. In a few hours walking the trail we saw nearly every bird that I had illustrated and a few extra.photo credit Anne Reardon
My latest bronze sculpture has been installed at Shaftesbury Park, Tarragindi. The brief was to make a discovery element for a newly constructed scooter park for Brisbane City Council by Naturform Landscape designers. I thought it would be fun if a bike helmet had been left at the park and had been taken over by a cheeky young native water dragon. Thanks yet again to Chalkoz Art Foundry for their expertise in casting my final sculpture in bronze. Bronze Water dragon on bike helmet – deb mostert 2022
More signage has been installed by the Fraser Coast Council in the Takura Reserve, Hervey Bay. I was commissioned by the council to make over 100 illustrations of flora and fauna and social history to be used in signage around this and other reserves. Such a joy to be involved in this worthwhile project that seeks to inform and educate about our unique environments.
a lovely evening at the Sunset Session – in conversation with Sarah Wallace, curator of my exhibition as we discussed this body of work while folk browsed through my sketchbooks and asked questions.
The Common Park scooter track is located at 88a Cambridge Drive, Coorparoo. The park includes a playground, skate park, and the Norman Creek Bikeway, as well as additional recreational features that provide a hub of active opportunities for park users. I’m grateful to the Brisbane City Council for including bronze sculptures as part of the creative enhancement of these shared spaces
The 32 illustrations I did for the Fraser Coast Council for the Arkarra Wetlands have been installed. This is an ongoing project with other reserves being upgraded by council to engage communities in an informed and coherant visual language. I’m very excited to be a small part of that. some of the signs installed at Arkarra Wetlands image credits Jacinta Padgett, Fraser Coast Council
Brisbane City Council commissioned me to make ‘discovery’ elements for an interactive playground at Gus Davies Park, Bald Hills. Built by the Landscape Construction Company, this park upgrade has created a wonderful imaginative playground with bikeways and different zones to explore. Turtle, frog and gecko were sculpted in the studio and cast by Chalkos Art Foundry. We hope to engage children on the micro level and alert them to the creatures that share our natural environments.
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.
I will be joining a panel of artists on Thursday 25th March who work across the arts and science to discuss the ‘creative collisions’ that happen at the intersection of Science and Art. I spend a fair bit of time at the museum chasing my interests of objects and natural history. Is the creative mind so different from that of a scientist or researcher? In these short, sharp sessions we’ll learn about the melding of minds to create some truly inspiring outcomes. Join us to
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.
I had the lovely privilege to be commissioned to create a bronze bust of an older gentleman, a retired doctor on the Gold Coast. He sat for me for several 3 hour sittings and I worked up the sculpture in oil based clay. The resultant portrait was then taken to Chalkos Fine Art Foundry and the long process of going to bronze. I was very happy with the results as were the clients.
This was a delightful commission to produce a bronze pelican for a private client.
a commission to make an isographic illustration of a map for a fantasy playground at Bradbury Park, Chermside by Brisbane City Council. I also did a sculpture commission of a Bronze Boobook Owl on a Book as part of the narrative and for children to discover as they explore the Magic Forest. In addition to this, I created a new ‘Guardian of the Forest’ sculpture which was cast in bronze and mounted over the entry gate to the park.
about the Drawing to Dis/Possess project and the exhibition now up at Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Southport.