Estelle Asmodelle

I am famous in Australia and a couple of other countries. I started painting as a small child and usually won the school art prizes, first exhibiting at the Berrima District Art Show at the age of 10. After leaving school I started painting abstract pieces while studying towards a physics and maths degree at Wollongong University. During this period I started creating large canvas work, many paintings of which were displayed at public art events. My first solo exhibition was at Wollongong Regional Art Gallery (now called the Wollongong City Gallery) and it was entitled, ‘The 26 Cent Exhibition,’ for people were required to pay 26 cents to enter, while each work cost a total of 26 cents to create. This eccentric show leads to many group shows in the region and also in Sydney at art departments within various universities, most notably at the Sydney University Art Department.

During my varied career, I continued to paint and exhibit and large canvas work using synthetic polymer became her preferred method. In the early 90s, I moved to Japan to live and work and soon afterwards exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of 'The UNESCO International Friendship Exhibition’ in 1991. This led to commissions, usually from Ja...

Certificate of Higher Education (distinction).
B.Sc 1st class honours

ART PRIZES [Select list]

Art Show International “Abstract” 2021 art prize (Merit award), J. Mane Gallery 2020 "Abstracts Art" (Honorary mention), Grey Cube Gallery "Colors 2020" (Honorary mention), Art Limited 2020 (Winner), Envision Arts “Abstraction: A Contemporary Collective 2020" (Selected), Bougie Art Gallery “Abstract Art Today 2020” (Selected), AAA 107th Exhibition 2020 (Selected), Artavita International 2018 & 2019 (Winner), Pride Art Australia 2017 (Winner)..