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

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/  

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.      

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

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

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

From 2014 Recovery – The Flood Objects Project will be available for hire through ArtsLink Qld, (formerly Queensland Arts Council est 1961) ArtsLink is devoted to curating, supporting and touring high quality visual art and exhibition product. The link to this exhibition is found here http://artslinkqld.com.au/recoveryfloodobjects

Recovery was shown in Rockhampton Art Gallery in August and the opening, artist talk and full day workshop were well received. This weekend saw the beautiful Vera Wade Gallery space in the ground floor of St Andrews Uniting Church, Cnr Ann Street and Creek Streets host to the opening of the Brisbane leg of the 2013 tour of Recovery – The Flood Objects Project. An appreciative crowd came to enjoy the stories and paintings. Exhibition open to the public 11 a.m – 2 p.m. Mondays

the beginnings of an investigation into birds and what they could collect. Objects and Ornithology (working title) teams birds with objects and gently prods at our own insatiable need to collect.