May 23, 2016
I am heading to Ukraine for 3 weeks in March and The Netherlands for the 4 weeks of April. It will be both a challenging and recharging time and I hope to do much drawing and documenting while travelling. You can follow along if you like on Instagram and Facebook.
the whole story is here….. 20 days, 104 dogs and a few cats later https://debmostertartist.atavist.com/drawingdogsforukraine
My work continues in collaboration with Chalkoz Art Foundry to produce large scale sculptures for the Brisbane City Council. Fabrication will be finalised in the next few weeks with the installation happening in mid May. It’s been a year in the making and still under wraps but the full story will be told in due course.
3 works have been curated into a group exhibition at the Ipswich Art Gallery entitled People- Places. Exhibition held from the 5th January – 23rd January with a ‘drinks with the artists’ evening on the 22nd January from 5.30 p.m.
I will have two works in the Summer Group Exhibition show at Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery opening Saturday 12th December and running until 30th January 2016. Studio 87, Ridgeway Avenue, Southport ‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones’ Migrant Sand Piper 2015 oil on linen 71 x 81 cm
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
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 Gwynneth Boyce, Keith Burt, Stevie Fieldsend, Shaun Gladwell, Judith Kentish, Sherrie Knipe, Lindy Lee, Euan MacLeod, Deb Mansfield, Lauire Nielsen, Mike Riddle, Kristin Tennyson, Kawita Vatanajyankur and Guan Wei.
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.
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. a lovely gathering enjoying the hospitality of Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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