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1974 |
Hobart, Tasmania |
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| Studies and Work |
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2002- |
Full-time Artist |
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2005 |
Study tour of Italy and France |
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2001-05 |
Studio, Letitia St Studios, Hobart, Tasmania |
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2000 |
Study tour of France, Switzerland and England |
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1997 |
Artists Residency, Lake St Clair/Cradle Mountain National Park |
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1996 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st class Honours) University of Tasmania, Hobart |
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Professional Practice |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
2011 She-Oak and River Patterns, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
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2010 Woodwork, Dick bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
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2009 |
Paintings King Street Gallery on William, Sydney NSW |
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2008 |
With shells and sheoaks Bett Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair, Vic |
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2007 |
Whaler’s Camp Bett Gallery at Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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2006 |
We are making a new world Bett Gallery at 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Vic |
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Not far from here Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS |
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Not far from here Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
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2004 |
World that I love Bett Gallery at Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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2002 |
Fires Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
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1999 |
Vision machine Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
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1998 |
Enigmas & double visions Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
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| Group Exhibitions |
| 2011 The Esk Collection Academy Gallery Launceston TAS |
Hawkesbury One, Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW
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Work FromThe Holmes a Court Collection, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
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| 25 years an unfolding journey, Bett Gallery, Hobart TAS |
2010 Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalss Club Brisbane
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Green, curated by Geoff Parr, Lucy Bleach, Rebecca Stephens Plimsoll Gallery UTAS Hobart
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Primed, curated by Catherine Wolfhagen, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS
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| City of Hobart Art prize, TasmanianMuseum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
2009 Four Tasmanian Painters, Burns Keeling Wastell & Wolfhagen, Bett Gallery, Hobart,TAS
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2008 |
The view from here Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
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Liminal Carnegie Gallery, Hobart and CAST Touring TAS |
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2007 |
From an Island South Devonport Regional Gallery and Asialink touring TAS and ASIA |
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2006 |
Contemporary Aspects of Tasmanian Art QVMAG, Launceston, TAS |
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The Esk Collection TWDC, Launceston, TAS |
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2005 |
Rhapsody 21C Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS |
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Letitia St Studios Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS |
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Artists’ artist Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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2004 |
Bodybag Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
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2003 |
Bett Gallery Hobart artists at Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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Bodybag Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS |
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Future Perfect Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
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Painting Tasmanian Landscape Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS |
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2002 |
The shape of air (flat) Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
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Redlands Art Prize Mosman, Sydney, NSW |
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Melbourne Artfair 2002 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
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Bett Gallery Artists at Depot Gallery Danks Street, Sydney, NSW |
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2001 |
Poets & Painters 10 Days on the Island, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
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2000 |
Melbourne Artfair 2000 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
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(painting), Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart |
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1999 |
Zero horizon C.A.S.T. Gallery, Hobart |
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Solitude Wilderness Residency Show Carnegie Gallery, Hobart |
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1998 |
Excursive sight Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania & Cradle Mountain National Park |
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1997 |
Poets & Painters 1997 Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart |
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1996 |
Honours graduates exhibition C.A.S.T. Gallery, Hobart |
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Art & the West Coast Gallery West, Queenstown, Tasmania |
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Megan Keating, John Vella & Richard Wastell Entrepot Gallery, Hobart |
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1995 |
Beep & click, artists who work with digital imagery Entrepot Gallery, Hobart |
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| Commission & Awards |
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2005 |
Devonport Regional Gallery, commissioned Exhibition |
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2000 |
Art for Public Buildings Scheme, commissioned project |
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1997 |
Arts Tasmania, Emerging Artist Wilderness Residency program, Lake St Clair, Tasmania. |
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1992 |
Tasmania H.S.C. Art Award |
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| Collections |
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Macquarie Bank, Sydney |
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Artbank, Sydney |
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Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart |
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BHP Billiton, Sydney |
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Derwent Collection 2, Hobart |
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Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania |
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Esk Collection, Launceston, Tasmania |
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Hawkesbury Collection, Sydney |
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Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania |
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Key Pharmaceuticals Collection, Sydney |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Stewart, Jane: ‘Jewel; Richard Wastell’ Radio National Artworks, 22 Feb |
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Boyce, James: ‘Journeying Home’ catalogue essay, Bett Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair |
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Strickland, Katrina: ‘Collectors board the red dot express’ Financial Review, July 19 |
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Timms, Peter: ‘Gatecrashing the Sublime’ Artlink, Vol 28 No 2 |
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Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery |
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Hansen, David: ‘Not all of this world’ catalogue essay, Bett Gallery, Depot Gallery, Sydney NSW, October |
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Denholm, Michael: ‘Beauty and Catastrophe’ Craft Arts International, Issue 70 |
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Kelly, Sean: ‘From an Island South’ Review, Artlink Vol 27 No 2 |
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Haynes, Roslynn, D: ‘Tasmanian Visions’ Polymath Press |
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Makin, Jeff: ‘Visual Art 2006’ Sun Herald, 27 December |
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Stewart, Jane: ‘From an Island South’ catalogue essay, September |
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Smith, Amanda with Hay, Pete and Bonyhady, Tim: ‘Deep End’ ABC Radio National, 2 August |
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Hansen, David: ‘Sightlines’ The Age, 28 July |
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Flanagan, Martin: ‘The sombre dignity of clear-felled native forests’ The Age, 25 July |
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Makin, Jeff: ‘Critic’s Choice’ Sun Herald, 24 July 2006 |
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Flanagan, Richard: ‘Love Walks Naked’ Catalogue essay, Bett Gallery at 45 downstairs, July |
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Bevilacqua, Simon: ‘Intense work in felled forests’ Sunday Tasmanian, 2 July |
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Hill, Peter: ‘The Return of Painting’ The Age, 24 August |
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Downes, Briony: ‘Not far from here’ Review, Artlink, Vol 25 No 2 |
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Hay, Peter: ‘Not far from here’ catalogue essay, Devonport Regional Gallery, January |
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Rankin-Reid, Jane: ‘Richard Wastell’ Art Collector, January-March |
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Flanagan, Richard: ‘Tasmania, The Sophisticated Traveller’ NY Times, 12 September |
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Mansfield, Caroline: ‘Tasmanian Artist Richard Wastell’ Qantas Magazine, October |
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Murray-Cree. L: ‘Young Guns’ State of the Arts, March |
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Crisp, Lyndall: Financial Review, 08 October |
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Hansen, David: ‘Future Perfect’ Bett Gallery Hobart, March |
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Hansen, David: ‘Fire Front’ Bett Gallery Hobart newsletter, August |
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Timms, Peter: ‘Shape of Air (flat)’ Bett Gallery Hobart, exhibition catalogue, May |
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Leary, R: ‘Rewriting the Hobart Rivulet’ Island Magazine, Winter Edition |
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Wood, Danielle: ‘Wild Art, 40 degrees’ South Magazine, Issue 8 |
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Stewart, Jane: ‘Enigmas & double visions’ Dick Bett Gallery, Newsletter No. 38 |
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Dick Bett Gallery: ‘Poets & Painters 1997’ Newsletter No.36 |
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Wood, Danielle: ‘Seeing the big picture’ Sunday Tasmanian, July 6 |
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Wood, Danielle: ‘Isolation inspires artist & students’ The Mercury, July 5 |
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Wood, Danielle: ‘Art in the park’ Sunday Tasmanian, November 10 |
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‘Crossing Water’ works from The Artist Pool series, Siglo Mag.Iss 6 |
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