Richard WastellSkullbone Plains 2014oil & pumice on linen

diptych: 152 x 183cm (overall size)

$12,000

Richard WastellBig Green Cushion 2014

oil & pumice on linen183 x 122cm (stretcher size)

$11,500

Richard WastellBurning Man Ferns, Tasmania 2006/2014

oil & marble dust on linen137 x 183cm (stretcher size)

$11,500

Richard WastellGrasslands, High Country, Tasmania 2014

oil & pumice on linen137 x 183cm (stretcher size)

$8,800

Richard WastellLizard 2013

oil & pumice on linen92 x 153cm (stretcher size)

$8,800

Richard WastellFlying Fish 2013/2014oil & pumice on linen

92 x 153cm (stretcher size)

$8,800

Richard WastellBackwater Lagoon 2014

oil & pumice on linen92 x77cm (stretcher size)

$4,850

Richard WastellHigh Country Lagoon, Cushion Plant 2014

oil & pumice on linendiptych: 102 x 51cm (stretcher size)

$4,400

Richard WastellHigh Country Snow 2014

oil & pumice on linen51 x 46cm (stretcher size)

$2,850

Richard WastellThe Plains 2014

oil & pumice on linen51 x 46cm (stretcher size)

$2,850

Richard WastellStar Flower, Cushion Plant 2014

oil & pumice on linen51 x 46cm (stretcher size)

$2,850

Richard WastellLost Skittle Balls 2014oil & pumice on linen

51 x 46cm (stretcher size)

$2,850

Richard WastellHigh Country Lagoon at Dusk 2014

oil & pumice on linen51 x 46cm (stretcher size)

$2,850

Richard Wastell and Ben WalterSama Hut, Mt Wellington 2013

charcoal on paper, framed38 x 57cm (paper size)

$1,850

Richard Wastell and Ben WalterScout Hut, Mt Wellington 2013

charcoal on paper, framed38 x 57cm (paper size)

$1,850

Richard Wastell and Ben WalterFirst Tent 2013

charcoal on paper, framed38 x 57cm (paper size)

$1,850

Richard Wastell and Ben WalterSecond Tent 2013

charcoal on paper, framed38 x 57cm (paper size)

$1,850

Richard WastellLeach 2014

charcoal on paper56 x 76cm (paper size)

$2,400

Richard WastellBlack Worm 2014charcoal on paper

56 x 76cm (paper size)

$2,400

Richard WastellSkittleballs 2014charcoal on paper

56 x 76cm (paper size)

$2,400

Richard WastellGrass Covered Rock 2014

charcoal on paper56 x 76cm (paper size)

$2,400

Richard WastellSkittleball Pair 2014charcoal on paper

56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

Richard WastellHorse and Smoke 2014

charcoal on paper56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

Richard WastellLake Ina 2014

charcoal on paper56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

Richard WastellCurrawong 2014charcoal on paper

56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

Richard WastellBackwater 2014

charcoal on paper56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

Richard WastellMuddy Track 2014charcoal on paper

56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

Richard WastellHollow Tree 2014charcoal on paper

56 x 38cm (paper size)

$1,550

RICHARD WASTELL 1974 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