Rehgan De Mather

With numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as being selected as a finalist in numerous high-profile awards, Rehgan De Mather has quickly established himself as a young artist to watch.

Since completing his BVA at Monash University Gippsland in 2001 De Mather has held 23 solo exhibitions and been involved in over 30 group exhibitions throughout Australia. He has been selected three times as a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Agendo Art Award, and Arc Yinnar Drawing Prize; twice in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Mount Eyre Art Prize, Prometheus Visual Arts Award, Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, and John Leslie Art Prize, as well as being a finalist in the Araluen Art Prize, City of Whyalla Art Prize, Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Clayton Utz Art Award & the 6th P.A.F International Drawing Biennale. He was a semi-finalist in the arts category of the Young Australian of the Year Awards, and a recipient of a Regional Arts Development Grant through Arts Victoria. He was recently awarded a yearlong residency at Appleton Street Studios courtesy of the Sandra Bardas Studio Grant, and was selected as the 2013 RAW Melbourne Visual Artist of the Year.

De Mather was bo...

2001 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Monash University, Gippsland

Solo Exhibitions

2014 Dancing with Death, Raglan Street Gallery – North Melbourne

2014 Don’t Slow Down, Ten Lawson – Albert Park

2012 M N M L V M X M L (II), Gallery 577 – Fitzroy

2011 M N M L V M X M L (I), Cowwarr Art Space – Cowwarr

2009 Movement Mashes, Linton and Kay Contemporary – Perth

2008 Chinese Whispers and Chain Reactions, Gippsland Art Gallery – Sale

2008 All I Wanted was a Pepsi, Groundfloor Gallery – Sydney

2008 The Last of What’s Left, Jackman Gallery – St. Kilda

2007 I’d Like to Dance With You, Cowwarr Art Space – Cowwarr

2007 Overload, Groundfloor Gallery – Sydney

2006 Pretty When You Lie, Artworks Gallery – Southport

2006 Graphic Exploits and Other Gratuities, blank_space – Sydney

2005 Contemporary Leftovers, Latrobe Regional Gallery – Morwell

2005 Boxing Clever, Cowwarr Art Space – Cowwarr

2005 Words, Music and Mayhem, Jackman Gallery – St Kilda

2004 Ignite, Jackman Gallery – St Kilda

2003 Nocturnal Selections, Stella Dimadis Galleries – Melbourne

2003 Travelling without Moving, Gippsland Art Gallery – Sale

2003 Art Boy vs. Bar Boy, Switchback Gallery – Churchill

2002 Moderns Gods, Glen Eira City Gallery – Caulfield

2001 Fine...