Mindy DorĂŠ Torii
Mindy DorĂŠ Torii 2014 Bett Gallery Award Recipient 27 Novemeber - 24 December 2015
My work revolves around my search for the sacred in everyday life, and a desire to come closer to my core essential being, my inner home. A profound peace experienced whilst travelling is the main catalyst for my work. In a fleeting shift of consciousness, I felt suddenly at home in a remote, unfamiliar place. I search for this continually in a life where peace and deep contentment seem elusive and fleeting. torii evolved from my daily walking ritual: meditative and focussed, uniting the world around me to the interior world of the self. In this practice, the breath is the thread by which these worlds join, in constant motion yet eternal, defining a threshold space within. Abstract motifs from gates around my home evolved as my own torii. Marking this threshold, they hover as apertures between the sacred realm of our true nature and the mundane world of our transient existence. Veils of translucent luminous colour shift and change as does the ephemera of daily life, expanding out, cycling in. The further away we find ourselves, the stronger we seek our own torii, as portals for the journey back, for the return home. Mindy DorĂŠ November 2015
Open Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Link Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Unknown Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Wave Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Moon Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Wheel Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Mesh Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
Mechanical Gate 2015 hand printed lino cut on usukuchi paper 94 x 64cm (sheet size) edition of 3 + 1 AP $550 unframed $990 framed
MINDY DORÉ 1968
Sydney, New South Wales Lives and works in Hobart
Education 2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking), Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania
1993
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Sydney
1989
Bachelor of Science (Architecture), University of Sydney
Solo Exhibitions 2015
torii Bett Gallery, Hobart
Selected Group Exhibitions 2014
Domus Tasmanian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition, Hobart What’s Up? UTAS Painting & Printmaking Societies Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart WIP Entrepôt Gallery, Hobart
2013
MONAISTA Stable Gallery, Hobart
2011
MONAISTA Stable Gallery, Hobart Open Doors II UTAS Painting & Printmaking Societies Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart
2009
CAST Members’ exhibition, CAST Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
Awards and Grants 2014
Bett Gallery Award
2010
Dean’s Role of Excellence, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania
1993
Noel Chettle Art Prize, University of SydneyCollections
Professional Experience 2011-2015
Museum Reception/Front of House, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart
1989-2004
Architectural assistant/Graduate architect, Sydney/UK/Hobart
1993
Communications tutor, University of Sydney
Bibliography Selby, C., Bountiful net of Tassie talent, The Mercury, November 28 2009 Collections Private collections: Australia