Artists Profile
Mo Godbeer was born in Manchester, England and chose to be an Australian, moving here in 1987. She now lives and works in caravan travelling the highways and bi-ways of Australia and teaching art workshops.
As a contemporary artist working in the areas of encaustic, drawing, mixed media and photography, her works incorporate many diverse items including papers,photography,found objects and fibres, and reflect our relationship with nature, and change, incorporating memory and time to understand our movement and growth in life.
Mo has a diploma of Fine Arts from Hornsby Technical and Further Education Institute. She has also studied with Gosford Regional Gallery,Kuring-Gai Arts Centre and Willoughby workshop arts centre.
Mo conducts regular workshops by request throughout Australia and has a strong online following. She has exhibited in shows in Sydney, London and the U.S with her work in currently in galleries and private collections in Australia, The United Kingdom, New Zealand and America.
Bio
My work explories memory and that feeling of our place in the world. Its been made very clear to me the differences between living in Australia and the north of England where I was born. I love Australia but part of me occasionally misses that leaden sky that sits right above your head. In Australia the sky is open as if the lid has been taken off. So I explore the differences, the memories and the challenges of living a country that is different to the place where you were born. I suppose it’s a feeling of having lost and gained something at the same time. The England I left in 1987 no longer exists except in my memory so in searching my past I also find my own place in Australia.
Education
2013 Context Fibre Forum, Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch, Dying for Encaustic
2012 Castle Hill, M.A, U.S.A Encaustic workshops with Miles Conrad, Catherine Nash, Sherrie Posternak, Elena De La Ville
2011 Ballarat Fibre Arts, Daniella Woolf (U.S): Wax and Paper
2011 Kuring-gai Arts Centre,Cilla Davis:Painting Discovery
2005-2009 Hornsby College of Tafe : Diploma of Fine Arts
2002-2004 Gosford Regional Gallery: Pastels
2000-2002 Kincumber Community Arts: Drawing
Workshops Teaching
2018 Tinkat Alley Art Studio, Newcastle
2018 Photo encaustic, Murwillumbah
2017 Sawtell Art group
2017 Kings School Sydney
2017 Ceramic Haven,Castle Hill, Sydney
2017 Merimbula Art Group
2017 Eurobadalla Fibre Artists Group
2013 Atasda, Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park, NSW
2013 Camp Creative, Bellingen, NSW
2012 Wrapt in Rocky,Qld
2012 McGregor Winter School,Qld
2012 Cairns ArtEscape,Qld
2011 Primrose Paper Arts,Cremorne....Paper and Wax Workshop
Mo Godbeer was born in Manchester, England and chose to be an Australian, moving here in 1987. She now lives and works in caravan travelling the highways and bi-ways of Australia and teaching art workshops.
As a contemporary artist working in the areas of encaustic, drawing, mixed media and photography, her works incorporate many diverse items including papers,photography,found objects and fibres, and reflect our relationship with nature, and change, incorporating memory and time to understand our movement and growth in life.
Mo has a diploma of Fine Arts from Hornsby Technical and Further Education Institute. She has also studied with Gosford Regional Gallery,Kuring-Gai Arts Centre and Willoughby workshop arts centre.
Mo conducts regular workshops by request throughout Australia and has a strong online following. She has exhibited in shows in Sydney, London and the U.S with her work in currently in galleries and private collections in Australia, The United Kingdom, New Zealand and America.
Bio
My work explories memory and that feeling of our place in the world. Its been made very clear to me the differences between living in Australia and the north of England where I was born. I love Australia but part of me occasionally misses that leaden sky that sits right above your head. In Australia the sky is open as if the lid has been taken off. So I explore the differences, the memories and the challenges of living a country that is different to the place where you were born. I suppose it’s a feeling of having lost and gained something at the same time. The England I left in 1987 no longer exists except in my memory so in searching my past I also find my own place in Australia.
Education
2013 Context Fibre Forum, Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch, Dying for Encaustic
2012 Castle Hill, M.A, U.S.A Encaustic workshops with Miles Conrad, Catherine Nash, Sherrie Posternak, Elena De La Ville
2011 Ballarat Fibre Arts, Daniella Woolf (U.S): Wax and Paper
2011 Kuring-gai Arts Centre,Cilla Davis:Painting Discovery
2005-2009 Hornsby College of Tafe : Diploma of Fine Arts
2002-2004 Gosford Regional Gallery: Pastels
2000-2002 Kincumber Community Arts: Drawing
Workshops Teaching
2018 Tinkat Alley Art Studio, Newcastle
2018 Photo encaustic, Murwillumbah
2017 Sawtell Art group
2017 Kings School Sydney
2017 Ceramic Haven,Castle Hill, Sydney
2017 Merimbula Art Group
2017 Eurobadalla Fibre Artists Group
2013 Atasda, Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park, NSW
2013 Camp Creative, Bellingen, NSW
2012 Wrapt in Rocky,Qld
2012 McGregor Winter School,Qld
2012 Cairns ArtEscape,Qld
2011 Primrose Paper Arts,Cremorne....Paper and Wax Workshop