Biography:
Seabastion Toast lives and works on the North Coast NSW. Among her achievements she recently won the $10,000 Darcy Doyle, a double award at the 2019 Glover Prize and is regularly a finalist in many prominent art prizes. Co-existing with her very active outdoors lifestyle, Toast's paintings embody a very physical approach to the subject, with layers built up, scraped down and obscured. Toast has a degree in Fine Art from SCU including a very influential exchange to the Pratt Institute in New York.
She also loves teaching, running up mountains, surfing, her dog, Audrey, and horses.
Artist statement:
I am increasingly interested in the very act of looking and attempting to record this process through paint. Perception is not fixed, and, like shifting conditions in light, focus and atmosphere, I chase the ethereal to gain a greater understanding of how we exist. Process driven, painting for me has never been about making pretty pictures, but rather a way of learning to see. I am interested in creating paintings that encourage the viewer to take time to look, to slow time. In world where things are often increasing in speed, stopping to spend time with an artwork seems to be one of the most important things we can do.
Education:
1997–2000 BA Visual Arts (major-painting) Southern Cross University, NSW
1999 University Exchange (6mnths) Pratt Art Institute, New York
2000 Cross Institutional Study College Of Fine Arts, Sydney
Selected Awards:
2022 Finalist Evelyn Chapman Award, SH Ervin Gallery, NSW
Finalist Portia Geach Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, NSW
Finalist Brisbane Portrait Prize, Power House, QLD
Finalist Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Montsalvat, VIC
2021 Winner D’Arcy Doyle $10,000 Landscape Prize, Mudgeeraba, QLD
Finalist Lester Portrait Prize, WA
Finalist Naked and Nude Manning Valley Art Prize, NSW
2020 Finalist Hurford Portrait Prize, Lismore, NSW
Finalist, Heysen Prize for landscape, Handorf, SA
2019 Highly Commended Glover Art Prize, Evandale, TAS
Hangers Award Glover Art Prize, Evandale, TAS
2018 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Wollongong, NSW
2017 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Wollongong, NSW
2nd Place Darcy Doyle Portrait Award, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Dust Temple Portrait Award, Gold Coast, QLD
2015 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Highly Commended Darcy Doyle Still Life, Gold Coast, QLD
2014 Finalist Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Eutick Memorial Still life Award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Finalist RQAS Figurative Award, Brisbane, QLD
Winner D’Arcy Doyle $10,000 Landscape Prize, Mudgeeraba, QLD
Finalist Cliftons Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist Border Art Prize, Tweed River Gallery, NSW
2013 Finalist Border Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery QLD
Peoples Choice Award, Queensland Regional Art Awards, Flying Arts
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Awards, Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD
2012 Winner Marymount Art Show, Painting Prize, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Border Art Prize, Tweed River Gallery, NSW
Semi finalist Doug Moran Portrait Prize Sydney, NSW
Finalist, Lismore Portrait Prize Lismore, NSW
2011 Highly Commended Ocean Shores Art Expo Ocean Shores, NSW
Winner $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Award, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Worthies Portrait Prize Sydney, NSW
Finalist, Mambo Art Prize, London, UK
1998 Winner, Acquisitive Prize Southern Cross University, NSW
Selected Exhibitions:
2022 “Fractured Aviary” Antler Gallery, Portland, USA
2020 Anthea Polson Christmas Show Marina Mirage, QLD
2019 “Fast Mountains Slow Birds” Solo Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Qld
2018 “Ways of Mapping Sunshine” Solo Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Qld
2016 “Re-animating the Animate” Pine Rivers Regional Gallery,QLD
2015 “The Border Track” Solo Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, QLD
“Plush and Plastic”, Solo show, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
2014 “Minatures” Christmas Art Show, Anthea Polson Gallery, QLD
“Curvy” Book Launch Semi permanent Carriage works, Sydney NSW
“Women of Substance” Group Show, Red Hill Gallery, QLD
“Paintings” Solo Show Dbar Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2013 “Red” Christmas Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Gold Coast QLD
“Badgers and Birds”, Art Piece Gallery Mary Ryans Byron Bay NSW
“Heavy Petting Zoo”, Robina Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2012 “Sidewayz” Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Art Expo Brisbane, Exhibition Buildings Brisbane, QLD
Art Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, VIC
Solo Exhibition “Of Hoof and Claw” D'bar Gallery, Coolangatta, QLD
Solo Exhibition, Southern Cross University Library, Coolangatta, QLD
2011 “Visiting Childhood” Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW
Group Show, Sheoak Shack Gallery, Fingal Head, NSW
“The Other Side” Robina Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Salon De Refuse, Lismore Portrait Prize, Serpentine Gallery, NSW
Camberwell Art Show, Camberwell Girls' Grammar, VIC
Group Show, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Womens Day Project, Karen19 Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2010 Solo Art Show, Showcase, Coolangatta, QLD
2003 “Toast and Curhams Day Out”, TAP Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 “Tom Squared”, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
1998 “Pinking” Solo Exhibition, Stone Cutters Art Gallery, NSW
Collections: Southern Cross University, Mirvac Group, Private Collections
Seabastion Toast lives and works on the North Coast NSW. Among her achievements she recently won the $10,000 Darcy Doyle, a double award at the 2019 Glover Prize and is regularly a finalist in many prominent art prizes. Co-existing with her very active outdoors lifestyle, Toast's paintings embody a very physical approach to the subject, with layers built up, scraped down and obscured. Toast has a degree in Fine Art from SCU including a very influential exchange to the Pratt Institute in New York.
She also loves teaching, running up mountains, surfing, her dog, Audrey, and horses.
Artist statement:
I am increasingly interested in the very act of looking and attempting to record this process through paint. Perception is not fixed, and, like shifting conditions in light, focus and atmosphere, I chase the ethereal to gain a greater understanding of how we exist. Process driven, painting for me has never been about making pretty pictures, but rather a way of learning to see. I am interested in creating paintings that encourage the viewer to take time to look, to slow time. In world where things are often increasing in speed, stopping to spend time with an artwork seems to be one of the most important things we can do.
Education:
1997–2000 BA Visual Arts (major-painting) Southern Cross University, NSW
1999 University Exchange (6mnths) Pratt Art Institute, New York
2000 Cross Institutional Study College Of Fine Arts, Sydney
Selected Awards:
2022 Finalist Evelyn Chapman Award, SH Ervin Gallery, NSW
Finalist Portia Geach Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, NSW
Finalist Brisbane Portrait Prize, Power House, QLD
Finalist Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Montsalvat, VIC
2021 Winner D’Arcy Doyle $10,000 Landscape Prize, Mudgeeraba, QLD
Finalist Lester Portrait Prize, WA
Finalist Naked and Nude Manning Valley Art Prize, NSW
2020 Finalist Hurford Portrait Prize, Lismore, NSW
Finalist, Heysen Prize for landscape, Handorf, SA
2019 Highly Commended Glover Art Prize, Evandale, TAS
Hangers Award Glover Art Prize, Evandale, TAS
2018 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Wollongong, NSW
2017 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Wollongong, NSW
2nd Place Darcy Doyle Portrait Award, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Dust Temple Portrait Award, Gold Coast, QLD
2015 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Highly Commended Darcy Doyle Still Life, Gold Coast, QLD
2014 Finalist Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Eutick Memorial Still life Award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Finalist RQAS Figurative Award, Brisbane, QLD
Winner D’Arcy Doyle $10,000 Landscape Prize, Mudgeeraba, QLD
Finalist Cliftons Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist Border Art Prize, Tweed River Gallery, NSW
2013 Finalist Border Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery QLD
Peoples Choice Award, Queensland Regional Art Awards, Flying Arts
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Awards, Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD
2012 Winner Marymount Art Show, Painting Prize, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Border Art Prize, Tweed River Gallery, NSW
Semi finalist Doug Moran Portrait Prize Sydney, NSW
Finalist, Lismore Portrait Prize Lismore, NSW
2011 Highly Commended Ocean Shores Art Expo Ocean Shores, NSW
Winner $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Award, Gold Coast, QLD
Finalist Worthies Portrait Prize Sydney, NSW
Finalist, Mambo Art Prize, London, UK
1998 Winner, Acquisitive Prize Southern Cross University, NSW
Selected Exhibitions:
2022 “Fractured Aviary” Antler Gallery, Portland, USA
2020 Anthea Polson Christmas Show Marina Mirage, QLD
2019 “Fast Mountains Slow Birds” Solo Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Qld
2018 “Ways of Mapping Sunshine” Solo Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Qld
2016 “Re-animating the Animate” Pine Rivers Regional Gallery,QLD
2015 “The Border Track” Solo Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, QLD
“Plush and Plastic”, Solo show, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
2014 “Minatures” Christmas Art Show, Anthea Polson Gallery, QLD
“Curvy” Book Launch Semi permanent Carriage works, Sydney NSW
“Women of Substance” Group Show, Red Hill Gallery, QLD
“Paintings” Solo Show Dbar Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2013 “Red” Christmas Show, Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Gold Coast QLD
“Badgers and Birds”, Art Piece Gallery Mary Ryans Byron Bay NSW
“Heavy Petting Zoo”, Robina Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2012 “Sidewayz” Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Art Expo Brisbane, Exhibition Buildings Brisbane, QLD
Art Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, VIC
Solo Exhibition “Of Hoof and Claw” D'bar Gallery, Coolangatta, QLD
Solo Exhibition, Southern Cross University Library, Coolangatta, QLD
2011 “Visiting Childhood” Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW
Group Show, Sheoak Shack Gallery, Fingal Head, NSW
“The Other Side” Robina Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Salon De Refuse, Lismore Portrait Prize, Serpentine Gallery, NSW
Camberwell Art Show, Camberwell Girls' Grammar, VIC
Group Show, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Womens Day Project, Karen19 Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2010 Solo Art Show, Showcase, Coolangatta, QLD
2003 “Toast and Curhams Day Out”, TAP Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 “Tom Squared”, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
1998 “Pinking” Solo Exhibition, Stone Cutters Art Gallery, NSW
Collections: Southern Cross University, Mirvac Group, Private Collections
