MADA Artforum: Sanné Mestrom

Sanné Mestrom's Weeping Women were presented by MUMA as part of the 2014 Ian Potter Sculpture Court Commission.

Sanné Mestrom was born in the Netherlands in 1979, moved to New Zealand with her family in 1983 and now lives and works in Victoria. Mestrom lectures in Fine Art at Federation University, Gippsland, she holds a PhD in Fine Art and a Graduate Certificate in Public Art both from RMIT University. Mestrom was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary and has held residencies in Mexico City and Seoul.

Mestrom's recent solo exhibitions include: Black Paintings, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2014; The Internal Logic, West Space, Melbourne and La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2013; and The Reclining Nude, Chalk Horse, Sydney, 2012 and Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2011. Selected group exhibitions include: Never Never Land, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2014; Assembly: Contemporary Ceramics, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2014; Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013; NEW13, ACCA, Melbourne, 2013; Pretty Air & Useful Things, MUMA, 2012; Ode to Form, West Space, 2012; Figure & Ground, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2012; OCTOPUS 11: The Matter of Air, Gertrude Contemporary, 2011; and Social Sculpture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2011.

^{Image: Sanné Mestrom, Weeping women 2014, cast concrete, brass, internal irrigation system and water, Ian Potter Sculpture Court Commission, 2014, Monash University Collection}