Rehgan De Mather

With numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as being selected as a finalist in numerous high-profile awards, Rehgan De Mather has quickly established himself as a young artist to watch. Since completing his BVA at Monash University Gippsland in 2001, De Mather has held 19 solo exhibitions and been involved in over 30 group exhibitions throughout Australia. He has been selected three times as a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Agendo Art Award, and Arc Yinnar Drawing Prize; twice in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Prometheus Visual Arts Award, John Leslie Art Prize and the Mount Eyre Art Prize, as well as being a finalist in the Araluen Art Prize, City of Whyalla Art Prize, Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, Stencil Art Prize & the 6th P.A.F International Drawing Biennale. He was a semi-finalist in the arts category of the Young Australian of the Year Awards, a recipient of a Regional Arts Development Grant through Arts Victoria, and was awarded a yearlong residency at Appleton Street Studios courtesy of the Sandra Bardas Studio Grant. De Mather was born in Adelaide, grew up in Sale and currently lives and works in Melbourne.