Gail Hastings
Installation view, Gail Hastings, This Performance/A Passing Thought, 200 Gertrude Street, Naarm Melbourne, 1989, © and courtesy the artist. Documentation digitised from slide (2024), courtesy of the Gertrude Archive.1990 - 1992
Gail Hastings has maintained an intense studio practice for over thirty years since graduating from art college in Melbourne in 1988. Her sculptuation Missing walls: bureaucracy at work was shown in the Daimler Art Collection in Berlin and sculptuation So she said is housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection in Sydney. Hastings introduced material space in art in Australia at the beginning of the 1990s through her works' inclusion in the Australian Perspecta in 1991 and the inaugural Primavera exhibition at the MCA in Sydney in 1992. In recognising Hastings' dedication to practice, artist Nike Savvas invited her into the 2018 Redlands Konica Minolta Art exhibition. Natasha Bullock and Mark Harpley described Gail Hastings' sculptuation Colour circle: four colour scheme for a room as 'distinguished by its aesthetic rigour [?] which questions the definition of minimalism, and the movement of everyday space' and 'an important addition to the Redlands Collection'.
[Biography contributed 2025. Source: Gail Hastings, Space Practising Tools, Pigment Publisher, 2021.]