RICHARD WASTELL
Read More1974 Born 1974, Hobart, Tasmania
Education
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st class Honours) University of Tasmania, Hobart
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Skittleball to Skullbone Plains – a Tasmanian High – Country odyssey, Bett Gallery
2011 She-oak and River Patterns King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2010 Woodwork, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart
2009 King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2008 With shells & sheoaks, Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Bett Gallery stand , Royal Exhibition
Building, Melbourne
2007 Whalersʼ camp, Bett Gallery Hobart at Depot Gallery, Sydney
2006 We are making a new world, Bett Gallery Hobart at fortyfivedownstairs
Melbourne
2005 Not far from here, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport,
Not far from here, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2004 World that I love, Depot Gallery, Sydney
2002 Fires, Bett Gallery Hobart
1999 Vision machine, Bett Gallery Hobart
1998 Enigmas & double visions, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 New Art from Tasmania [curated by Dr Peter Hill] James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Hawksbury OneCitizen CollectorsNewcastle Regional Gallery, NSW
The Esk CollectionAcademy Gallery, UTAS, Launceston, TAS
2010 PrimedAcademy Gallery, UTAS
2010 Green, curated by Geoff Parr, Lucy Bleach, Rebecca Stephens, Plimsoll Gallery,
UTAS, Hobart
Primed, curated by Catherine Wolfhagen, Academy Gallery, Launceston
Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
2009 Four Tasmanian Painters – Burns, Keeling, Wastell & Wolfhagen, Bett Gallery Hobart
& Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth
2008 The view from here, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Liminal, curated by Colin Langridge, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart and CAST Touring TAS
2007 An Island South, curated by Jane Stewart, Asia Link touring exhibition including
South-East Asia, Devonport Regional Gallery & Plimsoll Gallery
2006 Contemporary Aspects of Tasmanian Art, QVM&AG, Launceston
Rhapsody 21C, curated by Malcom Bywaters, Academy Gallery, University of
Tasmania, Launceston
Letitia St Studios, curated by Michael Edwards,Plimsoll Gallery, University of
Tasmania, Hobart
2005 Artists’ artist, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2004 Bodybag, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
Bett Gallery Hobart artists at Depot Gallery, Danks Street, Sydney
Bodybag, curated by Malcom Bywaters, Academy Gallery, Launceston
Future Perfect, curated by Gerard Castles, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS
2003 Painting Tasmanian Landscape, curated by Paul Zika, Plimsoll Gallery, University of
Tasmania, Hobart
The shape of air (flat), curated by Heather B Swann, Bett Gallery Hobart
Redlands Art Prize, Mossman, Sydney
Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2002 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
2000 Melbourne Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
(painting), curated byTroy Ruffels and Sarah Ryan,Plimsoll Gallery, University of
Tasmania, Hobart
1999 Zero horizon, C.A.S.T. Gallery, Hobart
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
Honours graduates exhibition, C.A.S.T. Gallery, Hobart
Art & the West Coast, Gallery West, Queenstown, Tasmania
1996 Megan Keating, John Vella & Richard Wastell, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
1995 Beep & click, artists who work with digital imagery, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
Awards and Grants
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
Collections
Parliament House, Canberra
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
BHP Bulliton, Sydney
RACV, Melbourne
Derwent Collection 2, Hobart
Island Collection, Tasmania
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Esk Collection, Tasmania
Hawkesbury Collection, Sydney
Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Key Pharmaceuticals Collection, Sydney
Private collections Australia, New Zealand & USA
Selected Bibliography
McDonald, John: ‘Beyond the Pale,’ Spectrum, SMH, Jan 21-22, pp20-21,2012
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, Oct 2007
Denholm, Michael, Beauty and Catastrophe, Craft Arts International, Issue 70, 2007
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
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
