BIO

In many respects Katarina Vesterberg is an outsider, a stranger in a strange land, in both her native Scandinavia and in her adopted country Australia. Having moved to Australia late in childhood, she was sentenced, like all migrants, to inhabit a nether world; feeling truly at home in neither place.

Her works serve no agenda, rather she attempts to explore the spirit of the world and the meaning of its existence. True to her traditions, in particular the Nordic love of nature, Vesterberg believes that the resolution of these issues is couched in observing the natural rather than the human world. Exemplified by some of the most extreme conditions on the planet, the environments of Katarinas native and adopted homes are largely harsh and unrelenting while, at the same time, being capable of radiance, inspiration and revelation.

In an attempt to portray something of the spirit and the meaning of the world, Vesterbergs paintings encapsulate no conscious meanings or tenets. Fine and clean in terms of perspective, so very sure of colour and well balanced.
(Svea Wijk, Swedish Art critic 2003)

1962 Born Karlstad, Sweden
1971 Migrated to Australia
1998 Elected as a member of Konstnrernas Riksorganisation (KRO), Stockholm, Sweden

Collections

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Parliament House, Canberra
Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane
Brisbane City Council, Brisbane
Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich
Redcliffe City Art Collection, Redcliffe
Maquarie Bank, Sydney
Griffith University, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore
Anglican Grammar School, Brisbane
Brisbane Boys College, Brisbane
Department of Veterans Affairs, Brisbane
International Pacific College, Brisbane
Maquarie Bank, Brisbane
Queensland Cement, Brisbane
The Blundstone Company, Hobart

Art Awards

1997 Winner of the inaugural 15 artists exhibition award, Interim Redcliffe Regional Art allery, Redcliffe Entertainment Centre, Redcliffe
1990 Arch Lane Inaugural Drawing Prize, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane  

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2005     Solitary Journey, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
             Seaborne, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2004     The Ephemoral Life, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
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

2004    Gallery Artists, Esa Jske Gallery, Sydney
2003     Works on Paper, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
            Gallery Artists, Esa Jske Gallery, Sydney
2002     Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection,                  Queensland
             College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
2000     Accents Australiens, lEspace Adamski Designs, Paris, France
1999     People, Places, Pastimes: challenging perspectives of Ipswich, Global              Arts Link,
             Public Art Museum, Ipswich
             Shalom Art Exhibition, Shalom College, Bundaberg
1998     Propositions Australiennes, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Latin Quarter, Paris,                  France
1998     Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton,              tourinG
1997     South Pacific: The Construction of Paradise, Queensland Art Gallery,                      Brisbane
             Art Nineties, University Art Museum, 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, Alice                  Springs
             15 artists, Interim Redcliffe Regional Art