KATARINA VESTERBERG

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 Katarina’s 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, Vesterberg’s 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)

PAST EXHIBITIONS

'The Ephemeral Life' 2004

'Land By Sea' 2005

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