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Richard Wastell -
Curriculum Vitae (August 2010) |
| Born
1974, Hobart, Tasmania |
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Education |
| 1996 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st class Honours) University of Tasmania, Hobart |
| Solo
Exhibitions |
| 2010 |
Woodwork, Bett Gallery Hobart, North Hobart, TAS |
| 2009 |
King street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW |
| 2008 |
With shells and sheoaks, Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Bett Gallery Hobart stand, Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne, VIC |
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2007 |
Whalers’
camp,
Bett Gallery Hobart at Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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2006 |
We are making a new
world, Bett Gallery Hobart at fortyfivedownstairs, 18
to 29 July 2006, Melbourne VIC |
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2005 |
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,
Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 2002 |
Fires,
Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| 1999 |
Vision
machine, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| 1998 |
Enigmas
& double visions, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
Group Exhibitions |
| 2010 |
Green, curated by Geoff Parr, Lucy Bleach, Rebecca Stephens, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart |
| Primed, curated by Catherine Wolfhagen, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS |
| 2009 |
Finalist, City of Hobart Art prize |
| Four Tasmanian Painters – Burns, Keeling, Wastell & Wolfhagen, Holmes à Court Gallery Perth, WA |
| 2008 |
The view from here, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| Liminal, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart and CAST Touring TAS |
| 2007 |
An Island South, Asia Link touring exhibition including South-East Asia, Devonport Regional Gallery and Plimsoll Gallery, TAS |
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2006 |
Contemporary Aspects of Tasmanian Art,
QVM&AG,
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 |
| Artists’
artist,
Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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2004 |
Bodybag,
Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 2003 |
Bett
Gallery Hobart artists at Depot Gallery,
Danks Street,
Sydney, NSW
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| Bodybag, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS |
| Future
Perfect, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| Painting
Tasmanian Landscape,
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS |
| 2002 |
The
shape of air (flat), curated by Heather B Swann, Bett Gallery Hobart,
TAS
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| Redlands Art Prize, Mossman, Sydney, NSW |
| Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| Bett
Gallery Hobart Artists at Depot Gallery,
Danks Street, Sydney, NSW |
| 2001 |
Poets &
Painters, 10 Days on the Island (with Richard Flanagan), Bett Gallery
Hobart, TAS |
| 2000 |
Melbourne Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
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| (painting), Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart |
| 1999 |
Zero
horizon, C.A.S.T. Gallery, Hobart
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| Solitude Wilderness Residency Show, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart |
| 1998 |
Excursive sight, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania & Cradle Mountain
National Park |
| 1997 |
Poets &
Painters 1997, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart |
| 1996 |
Honours
graduates exhibition, C.A.S.T. Gallery, Hobart
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| Art &
the West Coast, Gallery West, Queenstown, Tasmania |
| Megan
Keating, John Vella & Richard Wastell, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart |
| 1995 |
Beep &
click, artists who work with digital imagery, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart |
Bibliography |
| Timms, Peter, Catalogue essay, King Street Gallery, NSW, 2009 |
| Timms, Peter, Four Tasmanian Painters, Holmes a Court gallery, WA, 2009 |
| Stewart, Jane, Jewel; Richard Wastell, Radio National Artworks, 22 Feb 2009 |
| Boyce, James, Journeying Home, Catalogue Essay, Melbourne Art Fair, August 2008 |
| Strickland, Katrina, Collectors Board the Red Dot Express, Financial Review, July 19-20, 2008 |
| Timms, Peter, Gatecrashing the Sublime, Artlink, Vol 28 No 2 2008 |
| Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2007 |
| Hansen, David, Not all of this world, catalogue essay, Bett Gallery, Depot Gallery, Sydney NSW, October 2007 |
| Denholm, Michael, Beauty and Catastrophe, Craft Arts International, Issue 70 |
| Kelly, Sean, From an Island South, review, Artlink Vol 27 no 2, 2007 |
| Haynes, Roslynn, D, Tasmanian Visions, Polymath press, 2006 |
| Makin, Jeff, Visual Art 2006, Herald Sun, 27 December 2006 |
| Stewart, Jane, From an Island South, catalogue essay, September 2006 |
| Smith, Amanda, with Hay, Pete, and Bonyhady, Tim , Deep End, ABC Radio National, 2 August 2006 |
| Hansen, David, Sightlines, The Age, 28 July 2006 |
| Flanagan,
Richard, Love Walks Naked, catalogue essay, Bett Gallery at 45 downstairs, July,
2006 |
| Makin, Jeff, Critic’s Choice, Herald Sun, 24 July 2006 |
| Flanagan, Richard, Love Walks Naked, Catalogue essay, Bett Gallery at 45 downstairs, July, 2006 |
| Bevilacqua, Simon, Intense work in felled forests, Sunday Tasmanian, 2 July 2006 |
| Hill, Peter, The Return of Painting, The Age, 24 August 2005 |
| Downes, Briony, Not far from here, review, Artlink, Vol 25 No 2, 2005 |
| Hay, Peter,
Not far from here, catalogue essay, Devonport Regional Gallery, January 2005 |
| Rankin-Reid,
Jane, Richard Wastell, Art Collector, January-March 2005 |
| Flanagan,
Richard, Tasmania, The Sophisticated Traveller, NY Times, 12 September 2004 |
| Mansfield,
Caroline, Tasmanian Artist Richard Wastell, Qantas Magazine, October 2004 |
| Murray-Cree.
L, Young Guns, State of the Arts, March 2004 |
| Crisp, Lyndall,
Financial Review, 08 October 2004 |
| Hansen, David,
Future Perfect, Bett Gallery Hobart, March, 2003 |
| Hansen, David,
Fire Front, Bett Gallery Hobart newsletter, August 2002 |
| Timms, Peter,
Shape of Air (flat), Bett Gallery Hobart, exhibition catalogue, May 2002 |
| Leary, R,
Rewriting the Hobart Rivulet, Island Magazine, Winter Edition, 1998 |
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Wood,
Danielle, Wild Art, 40degrees South Magazine, Issue 8, 1998 |
| Stewart, Jane,
Enigmas & double visions, Dick Bett Gallery, Newsletter No. 38 1998 |
| Dick Bett
Gallery, Poets & Painters 1997, Newsletter No.36 1997 |
| Wood ,
Danielle, Seeing the big picture, Sunday Tasmanian, July 6 1997 |
| Wood,
Danielle, Isolation inspires artist & students, The Mercury, July 5 1997 |
| Wood,
Danielle, Art in the park, Sunday Tasmanian, November 10, 1996 |
| Siglo
Magazine, Issue 6, Crossing Water, paintings reproduced from The Artist Pool
series, 1996 |
Commissions & Awards |
| 2005 |
Devonport Regional Gallery, commissioned Exhibition |
| 2000 |
Art for
Public Buildings Scheme, commissioned project |
| 1997 |
Arts Tasmania, Emerging Artist Wilderness Residency program, Lake St Clair, Tasmania |
| 1992 |
Tasmania H.S.C. Art Award |
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Collections |
| Parliament House, Canberra |
| Macquarie Bank, Sydney |
| Artbank,
Sydney |
| Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart |
| BHP Bulliton,
Sydney |
| RACV, Melbourne |
| Derwent
Collection 2, Hobart |
| Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania |
| Esk
Collection, Tasmania |
| Hawkesbury
Collection, Sydney |
| Devonport
Regional Gallery, Tasmania |
| Key
Pharmaceuticals Collection, Sydney |
| Private
collections Australia, New Zealand & USA |
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