Anne Mestitz is a visual artist and intuitive maker whose primary focus is on colour, form and line as a means of expression. Underpinning these formal devices is an enquiry into the complicity of the viewer, the nature of visual perception, making “concrete” sensation and the role of aesthetic experience in the work.
Anne completed a PhD in 2011 and has taught Sculpture and Drawing at the Tasmanian College of the Arts on a casual basis over several years. Recently Anne visited New York for a month as a result of being the Tasmanian recipient of the Qantas Award.
2017 The Unnameable Sound of a Bell: Ellipsis Gallery, Langford120, Melbourne
2017 Semi-finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2015 Mad women in the attic: Plimsol Gallery, Hobart. Curators: Mary Scott and Maria Kunda
2015 Standback: MAC, Moonah, Hobart. Curator: Josie Hurst
2014 Geocritical AAANZ: Sawtooth ARI, Launceston. Curator: Natalie Holtsbaum
2014 Blue Works: Langford120, Melbourne. Curator: Wilma Tabacco
2014 SNO 101: SNO, Marrickville, Sydney. Curator: Susan Andrews
2013 The Z Factor: Plimsol Gallery, Hobart. Curator: Meg Keating
2013 Tasmanian recipient of the Qantas Foundation Art Award
2012 Sculpture Now: Colville Gallery, Hobart.
2012 Frames of Reference: Langford120, Melbourne. Curator: Wilma Tabacco
2011 PhD completed, UTAS, Hobart
2010 Online(fishing): Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. Curator: John Vella
2010 Conceptual: CAST Gallery, Hobart. Curator: Colin Langridge
2009 Tilted Constant: a site-referenced installation at Pigment Gallery, Melbourne
2009 OMG: a site-referenced installation at Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
2009 Hobart City Art Prize: finalist exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
2009 Chance Encounters: South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide (see below)
2009 Chance Encounters: Ten Days on the Island Festival, Long Gallery, Hobart,
Curators: Maria Kunda and Mary Knights
2009 Tasmania 1:100000 Mapping the Island: Ten Days on the Island Festival, Hobart,
Curators: Penny Carey-Wells and Dianne Perndt
2009 Geometric Nature: Devonport Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania. Curator: Lucy
Hawthorne
2008 Ephemeral Art at the Invisible Lodge: Freycinet National Park, Tasmania
2008 Sweet Observations of an Interior World: Devonport Regional Art Gallery,
Tasmania. Curator: Jane Stewart
2008 Delivery: Plimsol Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
2007 Revelation: Port Arthur Project, Tasmania. Curators: Noel Frankham and Julia Clark
2007 Electric Love: Bett Gallery, Hobart
2006 Object: 5 Tasmanian Sculptors: Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
2005 Resonator: Long Gallery, Hobart. Curator: Derek Hart
2005 Vehicle: CAST gallery, Hobart. Curator: Felix Ratcliff
2005 Hwy#2:10 Days on the Island (Forth). Curator: Jane Deeth
2005 Acidophilus: 10 Days on the Island, TMAG Hobart. Curator: John Vella
2005 Against the wall: Inflight Gallery, Hobart, a collaboration with Ona Kaukenas
2004 to gaze and to glance: solo installation at Kelly’s Garden, Hobart
2001 Drawing the Line: a solo installation at Foyer café, Hobart
2001 Sculpture by the Sea: Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania. Curators: David Handley and Dick Bett
2001 Island Postcards: Ten Days on the Island Festival. Curators: Penny Carey-Wells and Di Perdnt
1999 Sculpture by the Sea: Bondi Beach, Sydney. Curator: David Handley
1999 Hatched: PICA, W.A.
1998 Sculpture by the Sea: Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania. Curator: David Handley
Colville Gallery
Galleries
91a Salamanca Place, Battery Point
