Bio
Seabastion Toast lives and works on the mid-North Coast of NSW, Australia.
Among her achievements she recently won the People's Choice Award at the Portia Geach, the $10,000 Darcy Doyle Landscape award for the second time as well as the Peoples Choice Award at the Sunshine Coast Art Prize. She was recently in the top 8 finalists in the Evelyn Chapman award for painters under 45, won a double award at the 2019 Glover Prize and is regularly a finalist in many prominent art prizes, including the Portia Geach, the Lester, the Sunshine Coast, National Still Life and Doug Moran Awards.
Toast has a degree in Fine Art from Southern Cross University including a very influential exchange to the Pratt Institute in New York.
She also loves teaching, running up mountains, surfing, her husband, and dog, Audrey
Artist Statement
I am increasingly interested in the very act of looking and attempting to record this process through paint.
Perception is not fixed, and, like shifting conditions in light, focus and atmosphere, I chase the ethereal to gain a greater understanding of how we exist.
Process driven, painting for me has never been about making pretty pictures, but rather a way of learning to see. I am interested in creating paintings that encourage the viewer to take time to look, to slow time. In world where things are often increasing in speed, stopping to spend time with an artwork seems to be one of the most important things we can do.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light get’s in” –L. Cohen