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Nature & Culture opens

The exhibition launch was a lovely few days of opening events. Thursday night a good crowd came to enjoy the hospitality of Caloundra Regional Gallery, complete with great local food and beverages and live music. The Mayoress of the Sunshine Coast, Rosanna Natoli did the official honours of opening both my show and local artist Wendy McGrath-Lakeland. Friday morning I gave an informal walk and talk around the exhibition over morning tea and this was a special time to chat with people and engage in

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December 17, 2024
Exhibitions

Summer Salon

Taxidermy Stuffed Glass Vitrine with Birds 2024 gouache on green card 20 x 30 cm Souvenir Stuffed Glass Vitrine with Birds 2024 gouache on green card 20 x 30 cm I have these works available, please contact Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery for enquires 

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November 15, 2024
General News

Artist in Residency

I have had the great privilege to be the Artist in Residence at the first Sunshine Coast Marine BioBlitz . I documented on the fly and in the moment as many of the wide range of citizen science projects that were running. The bioblitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all living species within the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and adjacent waters. Recording animal and plant species above and below the water from inter-tidal zones, rock pools, estuaries, open ocean and reef. The event showcased community-driven

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September 4, 2024
Exhibition Image Deb Moster solo exhibition
Exhibitions

New solo coming!

It has been quite the year, starting with such precious family times, visits from overseas family, the birth of a new granddaughter, the wedding of our daughter, a solo sketchbook exhibition at The Condensery, and then Acute QFever which took some time to diagnose and a long recovery. I’m back on deck and have been using studio time to prepare for my next solo exhibition end of the year….  13 Dec 2024 to 2 Feb 2025Caloundra Regional Gallery Based on years of observation and research within

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September 4, 2024
General News

A Sketchbook Practice

4th May – 7th July 2024 It was a lovely opening with many folk coming to The Condensery at Toogoolawah for the opening. Special thanks to Madeline Brewer and Jake for the care they took with my ‘spare brains’ and all the local artists who bravely shared what they had made from our workshops together. Thanks also to arts writer Louise Martin-Chew for her studio visits and essay for the room brochure.  

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July 1, 2024
Exhibitions

A SKETCHBOOK PRACTICE

DEB MOSTERT & SOMERSET ARTS COMMUNITY opens May 4th at The Condensery, Toogoolawah official opening 4-6 pm, exhibition dates 4th May-7th July 2024

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April 11, 2024
Exhibitions

Group exhibition with Lorraine Pilgrim

The Summer Show is coming!! Being opened 16th December by Susi Muddiman OAM, Director of HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast. See my new work there as well as all the artists from the LP stable.

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November 28, 2023
General News

Inclusion in this publication

Evelyn and Bob McDonald of Bluegum Publishing have curated a collection of authors to contribute to their latest book in this series. https://www.bluegumpublishing.com/ I was pleased to add my sketches and musings as part of this exploration of God in Nature.  

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November 28, 2023
Commissions

Bronze Bust commission

A beautiful long term commission this year has been sculpting the delightful Laurie. Commissioned by his son in a lovely act of respect, Laurie was shy and bemused by the attention as he sat for me over 5 x 2 hour sessions but we had fun getting to know each other and enjoying the process. After I had sculpted Laurie in oil based clay, I then had the finished bust scanned and 3D printed by Sculpt Studios at a smaller size so we could take

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November 28, 2023
General News

Book Launch

I was so delighted to have been asked to collaborate with the Women Writers Qld, and their latest anthology entitled ‘Stuffed’. A taxidermy sketch from my ‘Animal as Object’ research sketchbooks chosen by author and editor Toni Risson to grace the covers, as the writers all took on the challenge to ‘stuff’ their story between the opening and closing lines of a popular novel (‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ by Delia Owens) It was so much fun with this lively bunch of authors as they joined

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October 11, 2023
Exhibitions

Projected sketches!

Over a week in July a selection of my brown paper portraits of ordinary humans were projected onto 143 Brisbane Street in Ipswich as part of the Spark Festival 2023. From Thursday 6 – Sunday 16 July 2023 d’Arcy Doyle Place was transformed into a visual spectacle that profiled local artists, architecture and the nooks and crannies of this popular Ipswich meeting place. Projectionist James Muller from Earth Base Productions worked with all 10 artists including Jacob Sarra, Chenaya Bancroft-Davis, Donna Davis, Eulalia Martin, Kylie

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July 25, 2023
Commissions

Bronze Trophies

This exciting commission was for the Brisbane Racing Club who wished to have a bronze thoroughbred racehorse head as a trophy for the Queensland Oaks Carnival Race, the richest race in the Brisbane Racing calender. I had no experience with racing or these sorts of horses, so I spent some time at the racetrack drawing and watching the horses in preparation for this sculptural challenge. A lot of the process pics in my sketchbook can be seen here at my virtual sketchbook project. If you click

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June 21, 2023
Commissions

Bronze Sculptures – public art

These bronze sculptures were commissioned by TLCC (The Landscape Company) for Brisbane City Council to be part of George Clayton Park at Manly. I made the orginal sculptures from oil based clay and then made molds which I gave to Chalkos Art Foundry to make wax positives and then convert to bronze for me. As the brief was for discovery elements of a very tactile kind, I had a lot of fun making very textured and touchable sea creatures to be mounted on rocks and

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June 21, 2023
General News

Exciting new way to engage!

A virtual sketchbook! People have been very kind, viewing my exhibition of 92 sketchbooks at Ipswich Art Gallery with much interest, and often wondering what is inside the other pages. We could only show one spread from each book of course, although we have videos playing in the gallery space showing me paging through half a dozen of the sketchbooks. We thought it would be nice to make something more interactive and current. So this is a virtual sketchbook made up of my two sketchbooks

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April 19, 2023
General News

Opening of Everyday Sketchbooks

at Ipswich Art Gallery 4th March a lovely afternoon with over 140 people who came to support and peer into my spare brains. A glimpse into 92 sketchbooks with videos of others, it has been an amazing experiment allowing my sketchbooks to be viewed in this way. ‘Decades of daily observations have been preserved through Ipswich-based artist Deb Mostert​’s sketchbook practice, and she showcases her collection for the first time in Everyday Sketchbooks. Deb makes works spanning painting, sculpture and public art, and the learning

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March 14, 2023
General News

I’m offering mentorships!

MORE INFO at @mastrius.official or Mastrius.com. I believe everyone is creative. And I love to show folk how they can tap into that via an ‘everyday’ sketchbook practice. We need artists sharing their unique experience, insight, and beauty—and making the world a better place! But if you’re anything like me, you definitely can’t do that alone. I’m hugely grateful for the generous mentors I’ve had along the way. We all need support to get there! So I’m EXCITED TO SHARE that I’ll be MENTORING a

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February 13, 2023
General News

Guest artist World Science Festival Brisbane

I have been invited by World Science Festival to be engaged in the act of drawing from the collection in WILD SKETCH over 2 nights – 24th and 25th March at the Queensland Museum. Bolder than ever, this year’s festival is an innovative intersection between art and science, where visitors are challenged to explore the biggest questions facing humankind today across a vibrant program of talks, demonstrations and experiences. World Science Festival Brisbane is now part of Queensland Museum’s identity and firmly part of Brisbane’s intellectual landscape. Wild Sketch sits in

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February 8, 2023

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