Richard Wastell Skullbone Plains 2014 oil & pumice on linen diptych: 152 x 183cm (overall size) $12,000
Richard Wastell Big Green Cushion 2014 oil & pumice on linen 183 x 122cm (stretcher size) $11,500
Richard Wastell Burning Man Ferns, Tasmania 2006/2014 oil & marble dust on linen 137 x 183cm (stretcher size) $11,500
Richard Wastell Grasslands, High Country, Tasmania 2014 oil & pumice on linen 137 x 183cm (stretcher size) $8,800
Richard Wastell Lizard 2013 oil & pumice on linen 92 x 153cm (stretcher size) $8,800
Richard Wastell Flying Fish 2013/2014 oil & pumice on linen 92 x 153cm (stretcher size) $8,800
Richard Wastell Backwater Lagoon 2014 oil & pumice on linen 92 x77cm (stretcher size) $4,850
Richard Wastell High Country Lagoon, Cushion Plant 2014 oil & pumice on linen diptych: 102 x 51cm (stretcher size) $4,400
Richard Wastell High Country Snow 2014 oil & pumice on linen 51 x 46cm (stretcher size) $2,850
Richard Wastell The Plains 2014 oil & pumice on linen 51 x 46cm (stretcher size) $2,850
Richard Wastell Star Flower, Cushion Plant 2014 oil & pumice on linen 51 x 46cm (stretcher size) $2,850
Richard Wastell Lost Skittle Balls 2014 oil & pumice on linen 51 x 46cm (stretcher size) $2,850
Richard Wastell High Country Lagoon at Dusk 2014 oil & pumice on linen 51 x 46cm (stretcher size) $2,850
Richard Wastell and Ben Walter Sama Hut, Mt Wellington 2013 charcoal on paper, framed 38 x 57cm (paper size) $1,850
Richard Wastell and Ben Walter Scout Hut, Mt Wellington 2013 charcoal on paper, framed 38 x 57cm (paper size) $1,850
Richard Wastell and Ben Walter First Tent 2013 charcoal on paper, framed 38 x 57cm (paper size) $1,850
Richard Wastell and Ben Walter Second Tent 2013 charcoal on paper, framed 38 x 57cm (paper size) $1,850
Richard Wastell Leach 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 76cm (paper size) $2,400
Richard Wastell Black Worm 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 76cm (paper size) $2,400
Richard Wastell Skittleballs 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 76cm (paper size) $2,400
Richard Wastell Grass Covered Rock 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 76cm (paper size) $2,400
Richard Wastell Skittleball Pair 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 38cm (paper size) $1,550
Richard Wastell Horse and Smoke 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 38cm (paper size) $1,550
Richard Wastell Lake Ina 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 38cm (paper size) $1,550
Richard Wastell Currawong 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 38cm (paper size) $1,550
Richard Wastell Backwater 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 38cm (paper size) $1,550
Richard Wastell Muddy Track 2014 charcoal on paper 56 x 38cm (paper size) $1,550
Richard Wastell Hollow Tree 2014 charcoal 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