Sebastian Di Mauro

Place: Innisfail

Born: 1955

Biography:

Di Mauro’s work has risen to national prominence through achievements such as sculpture prizes, residencies, grants and exhibitions in addition to the realization of a number of major public art commissions during the last fifteen years. Sebastian Di Mauro was born in Innisfail, Australia in 1955 and he currently lives and works in Wilmington, Delaware. He has a PhD from Griffith University and was an Associate Professor until he retired in 2016. At Griffith University he taught sculpture in the Fine Art Program. Since the late 1980s he has held over 45 solo exhibitions and his work has been included in excess of 100 group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. His paintings, sculptures, artist books and installations are collected by many of Australia’s key art institutions, including: the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Bendigo Art Gallery, Besen Collection, Artbank, University of Queensland Art Museum and Deakin University. Recognised in 2004 as one of Australia’s sculptors to watch in terms of investment, his work has been celebrated in two monographs, Between Material (1998) and Footnotes of a Verdurous Tale (2009). Di Mauro’s work has risen to national prominence through a number of achievements namely: an Australia Council ‘New Work’ grant in 1999; winning the Inaugural Woollahra Sculpture Prize; inclusion in the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001; awarded residencies with Parks Victoria, Melbourne and later the British School, Rome in 2002; being judged a finalist in The McClelland Survey a number of times.