Biography:
Seabastion Toast is originally from Melbourne, now living and working in Northern NSW. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2000 including a six month exchange to the Pratt Art Institute in New York. Her work has garnered much attention over the past couple of years particularly after winning the 2014 D'arcy Doyle Landscape Prize, the 2011 Gainsborough Greens Award, the 2012 Marymount Painting Prize and achieving finalist positions in many other prominent awards including the 2012 Doug Moran Portrait Prize. 
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Born: 1978, Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works: Gold Coast, Australia 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 Exhibitions: 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 Awards and acquisitions: Selected Awards: Selected Awards: 2017 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 Collections: Southern Cross University Mirvac Group Private Collections Australian Screen and Sound Archive (experimental sound art) Represented by: Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld ph:07 5561 1166 http://www.antheapolsonart.com.au/artist-works.php?artistID=222 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane, Qld ph: 07 3368 1442 http://www.redhillgallery.com.au/SeabastionToast.html 
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