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Katarina
Vesterberg
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Biography
| 1962 | Born Karlstad, Sweden |
| 1971 | Migrated to Australia |
| 1998 | Elected as a member of Konstnärernas Riksorganisation (KRO), Stockholm, Sweden |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | Estuary, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2009 | Portals, Greenhill Galleries, Perth |
| 2008 | Homelands, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2007 | Noontide,
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Reverie, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2006 | Eventide,
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Passage, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sydney |
| 2005 | Seaborne,
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Land by Sea, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne Solitary Journey, Esa Jäske Gallery, Sydney |
| 2004 | Ephemeral
Life, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
Katarina Vesterberg: Paintings and Drawings, Esa Jäske Gallery, Sydney |
| 2003 | A Stranger's Beach, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2002 | Objective
Desire, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Moreton Bay, Kemi Art Museum, Kemi, Finland South-East, Sininen Komuuti, Oulu, Finland |
| 2000 | Bloodties, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton |
| 1997 | Milburn Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1996 | Milburn Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1994 | Cape Morton, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba |
| 1993 | (going)
from the Arawatta, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Recent Work, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1992 | Katarina
Vesterberg, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Canary Tops and Dog Roses, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Access Gallery, University of New England, Lismore |
| 1991 | Recent Works 1991, First Draft West, Sydney |
| 1990 | Carkasse without Motion, Galerie Brutal, Brisbane |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | Squared,
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Sketched, Greenhill Galleries, Perth |
| 2008 | Opening
Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Group Show 08, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne Christmas Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, Perth |
| 2007 | Paintings
and Works on Paper, Michael Reid at Murrurundi, New South Wales
The Unusual Suspects III, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2006 | Squared,
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Into the Fold, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Waterviews, Redcliffe City Gallery, Queensland |
| 2005 | Squared, Greenhill Galleries, Perth |
| 2004 | Summer Show 2004, Esa Jäske Gallery, Sydney |
| 2003 | Gallery
Artists, Esa Jäske Gallery, Sydney
Works on Paper, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane |
| 2000 | Accents Australiens, l’Espace Adamski Designs, Paris, France |
| 1999 | People,
Places, Pastimes: challenging perspectives of Ipswich, Global Arts
Link, Ipswich, Queensland
Shalom Art Exhibition, Shalom College, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| 1998 | Propositions
Australiennes, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris, France
1998 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales, touring 1999–2000 |
| 1997 | South
Pacific: The Construction of Paradise, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Nineties, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 1997 13th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Alice Springs Art Prize Exhibition, Alice Springs Regional Gallery, Northern Territory 15 artists, Redcliffe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 1996 | Shelf
Works, Annandale Gallery, Sydney
Asia Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Coronation Motel, Brisbane Run, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | An
Exotic Otherness, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania; Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
Sydney; Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane
Lingo: Images of a First Language, Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane Living the War, Central City Library, Brisbane, touring Katarina Vesterberg, Judy Watson, Judith Wright, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane Accent on Australia, Galleri Babette, Knebel, Denmark |
| 1994 | The
Graphite Crucible, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich
Knowing the Sensorium, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1993 | Artright, School of Arts, Brisbane |
| 1992 | Unfamiliar
Territory, 1992 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of
South Australia, Adelaide
The Blundstone Invitation Prize, Chameleon Contemporary Art Gallery, Hobart,Tasmania |
| 1991 | Entropy, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1990 | Arch
Lane Inaugural Drawing Prize, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Livid Festival, Sydney |
| 1989 | Works on Paper, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane |
| 1988 | National Women’s Art Award, Centre Gallery, Gold Coast |
| 1987 | Balmain Loft, Sydney |
Awards
| 1997 | Winner of the inaugural 15 artists exhibition award, Redcliffe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 1990 | Arch Lane Inaugural Drawing Prize, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane |
Bibliography
| Anderson,
Peter. ‘Risky business’, Art Monthly, c.2000
Anon. 15 Artists: The Redcliffe City Council 1997 Annual Spring Art Exhibition Award [ex. cat.], Redcliffe City Council, Redcliffe, 1997 Anon. ‘Australialaista taidetta Kemin taidemuseossa’, Lounais-Lappi, 6 June 2002 Anon. ‘Australien i Knebelbro’, Ebeltoft Folketidende, 5 July 1995 Anon. ‘Australsk kunst i Galleri Babette’, Stiftstidende, 22 June 1995 Anon. ‘Exhibition Commentary’, Art and Australia, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1994 Anon. ‘Fem australske kvinder udstiller i Knebel ...’, Sommeravisen Ebeltoft og Mols d. 17 July 1995 Anon. ‘Katarina Vesterberg’, Brisbane News, 20 March 1996 Anon. ‘Katarina Vesterberg: Painting the Processes of Time’, The Daily Examiner, 19 April 2000 Anon. ‘Kemin Taidemuseon ja Historiallisen museon näyttelyistä: Katarina Vesterbergin näyttely 20.6.-28.7. Kemin Taidemuseolla’, Lounais Lappi, 4 July 2002 Anon. ‘Koralliriutat saapuvat Ouluun’, Oulun Seutu, 12 June 2002 Anon. ‘Koralliriutat saapuvat Ouluun öljyvärimaalauksissa’, Pohjolan Työ, 20 June 2002 Anon. ‘Näkyvät koralliriutat ja näkymätön aboriginaalien henki Oulussa nähtävissä’, Oulu-lehti, 27 June 2002 Anon. ‘Oulu: Aussimaisemaa’, Kaleva-Peto, 7 July 2002 Anon. Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection [ex. cat.], Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane, June 2002 Anon. ‘Performing Sexualities: Katarina Vesterberg’, Art Monthly Australia, June 1995, Number 80 Anon. ‘Prize for artist’, The Courier-Mail, 22 October 1997 Anon. The Graphite Crucible [ex. cat.], Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich, 1994 Anon. ‘Them & us: Internees & ‘others’ continued ...’, Living the War [ex. cat.], Central City Library, Brisbane, 1995 Baker, Andrew. Katarina Vesterberg: Moreton Bay [ex. cat.], Kemin Taidemuseo, Finland, June 2002 Boulous Walker, Michelle (editor). Performing Sexualities [ex. cat.], Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1994 Broker, David. ‘1992 Adelaide Binnial of Australian Art’, Art & Text, No. 42, 1992 Brown, Phil. ‘Swept Away: Katarina Vesterberg’s littoral interpretations draw on her Scandinavian and Australian roots’, Brisbane News, 25–31 May 2005 Brown, Phil. ‘Setting Sail: After a local exhibition, artist Katarina Vesterberg is taking her paintings of Brisbane’s bay islands to distant lands’, Brisbane News, 5 June 2002 Brown, Phil. ‘Talk Show: Art and language combine to create a fascinating exhibition at the City Hall Art Gallery’, Brisbane News, November 1995 Chryssides, Helen. ‘A venture into unfamiliar territory’, The Advertiser, 18 April 1992 Delaruelle, Jacques. ‘More of the Same’, Adelaide Review, April 1992 Duryea, Kate. ‘Fossils a focus for paintings’, The Sun, 10 April 1990 Eskola, Tanja. ‘Sininen Komuuti esittää: Australian luontoa skandinaavisin silmin’, Kansan Tahto, 2 July 2002 Helmrich, Michelle. Unfamiliar Territory [ex. cat.], Art Gallery of South Australia, 1992 Helmrich, Michelle, An Exotic Otherness: Crossing Brisbane Lines [ex. cat.], Contemporary Art Services of Tasmania, 1994 Howard, Lucienne. Lingo: Images of a first language [ex. cat.], Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1995 Hyvärinen, Marja-Leena. ‘Kauneutta karuuden keskellä’, Kaleva, July 2002 James, Bruce. ‘Crossing Brisbane Lines into more open territory’, The Age, 17 May 1995 Low, Lenny Ann. ‘Katarina Vesterberg: Paintings and Drawings’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May 2004 McCulkin, Tony. ‘Cape Moreton works by Katarina Vesterberg in the Foyer Gallery, USQ until March 11’, The Chronicle, 1 March 1994 McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; and McCulloch Childs, Emily. The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions/The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006 McLean, Sandra. ‘Shifting Sands: Sandra McLean peeps through a migrant artist’s eyes at the Australian landscape’, The Courier-Mail, 25 May 2005 Mäkelä, Riitta. ‘Hiekan ja meren hohtoa’, Kavela, 14 July 2002 Morrell, Timothy. ‘Katarina Vesterberg: Seaborne’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 32, April–June 2005 Morrell, Timothy. bloodties [ex. cat.], Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, May 2000 Nalder, Glenda. Katarina Vesterberg: (going) from the Arawatta [ex. cat.], The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1993 Nalder, Glenda. Canary Tops & Dog Roses [ex. cat.], Institute of Modern Art, 1992 Niskala, Marjaana. ‘Kuvat: Taidenäyttely’, Kaleva, 29 July 2002 Radok, Stephanie. ‘Puzzling Identities’, Adelaide Review, March 1992 Radok, Stephanie. ‘Locality and tactility’, Adelaide Review, September 1993 Radok, Stephanie. ‘Ordinary Otherness’, Artlink, Vol. 12 No. 1 Richards, Michael. ‘Pairs, paradigms and prehistory’, The Courier-Mail, 11 April 1990 Richards, Michael. ‘Works on Paper’, The Courier-Mail, 13 July 1989 Sarrala, Hannu. ‘Juuriltaan kemiläinen Katarina Vesterberg maalaa Australiassa: Heikkasaarten subtrooppinen maisema’, Pohjolan Sanomat, 19 June 2002 Seppä, Soile. ‘Uskollisuus karun maiseman luonteelle’, Pohjolan Sanomat, July 2002 Sivonen, Outi. ‘Australian maisemat lumoavat kesänäyttelyssä: Sotalapsen tytär palasi juurilleen’, Keskiviiko, 10 July 2002 Smith, Sue. ‘Exhibition aims for a multicultural accent’, The Courier-Mail, 16 May 1995 Smith, Sue. ‘Through emigres’ eyes’, The Courier-Mail, 17 May 1997 Spencer, Ric. ‘Ghostly gateways to other worlds’, The West Australian, 15 May 2009 Spencer, Ric. ‘2009: Inventive, hectic’, The West Australian, 1 January 2010 Stanford, Leonie. The Review, September 1997 Tuckerman, Barbara. An Exotic Otherness: Crossing Brisbane Lines [ex. cat.], Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, 1994 Ward, Peter. ‘Biennial a portrait of uncertain times’, The Weekend Australian, 29 February–1 March 1992 Wunsch, Jaana. ‘Merelliset maisemat’, Oulu-lehti, 4 July 2002 Zubrugg, Nicholas. ‘Katarina Vesterberg: Carcasse Without Motion, Galerie Brutal, Brisbane’, Eyeline, No. 133, 1990 |
Collections
| Queensland
Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
Kemi Art Museum, Kemi, Finland Artbank, Sydney Parliament House, Canberra Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Brisbane Brisbane City Council, Brisbane Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Queensland Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales Redcliffe City Art Collection, Queensland Griffith University, Brisbane Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Anglican Grammar School, Brisbane Brisbane Boys College, Brisbane International Pacific College, Brisbane Macquarie Bank, Sydney Macquarie Bank, Brisbane Merikoski Vocational Centre, Oulu, Finland Queensland Cement, Brisbane Southernex Imaging Group Ltd (Wesley Hospital), Brisbane Suncorp, Brisbane Mater Mothers’ Hospital, Brisbane The Blundstone Company, Hobart, Tasmania |