Estelle Asmodelle started painting as a small child, and usually won the school art prizes and first exhibited at the ‘Berrima District Art Show,’ at the age of 10. After leaving school Asmodelle started painting abstract pieces while studying towards a physics and maths degree at Wollongong University. Dduring this period she started creating large canvas work, many of which were displayed at public arts events. Asmodelle’s first solo exhibition was at Wollongong Regional Art Gallery (now called the Wollongong City Gallery) and it was entitled, ‘The 26 Cent Exhibition,‘ for people were required to pay 26 cents to enter, while each work cost a total of 26 cents to create. This eccentric show lead to many group shows in the region and also in Sydney mostly at art departments within various universities, most notably, the Sydney University Art Department.
During her varied career Asmodelle continued to paint and exhibit, and the large canvas work using synthetic polymer became her preferred method. In the early 90s Estelle move to Japan to live and work, and soon afterwards exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of the ‘UNESCO International Friendship Exhibition’ in 1991. This lead to commissions, usually from Japanese firms, for her work. During that period Estelle also started the ‘Tokyo Eki (train station) Exhibition,’ displaying and selling her work in Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and Tokyo train stations as a permanent exhibition, while also contributing in group shows within Tokyo’s art galleries in Ginza, Shibuya and Ueno.
In 2000 Estelle Asmodelle moved to Los Angeles and participated in numerous group shows and sold some larger canvas works. A few years later she returned to Sydney Australia, after living abroad for 9 years, and continued to exhibit in Los Angeles, more recently being a regular contributor at the ‘Los Angeles Center For Digital Art LACDA.’
From 2008 Estelle Asmodelle started showing her work in solo exhibitions in Sydney, most notably at the ‘Global Gallery,’ ‘Gigi Gallery’ and several others. Estelle also ran solo exhibitions in some regional towns in country NSW, from Berrima to Scone, most notably at ‘Artemis Gallery.’ Estelle from 2010 has continued to show and sell work though group exhibitions, one example is the ‘Redfern Artist Group,’ of which she is a member. Also from 2008 Estelle also started creating digital works as well, in conjunction with her physical canvas works.
Several important physical abstract works of Estelle Asmodelle reside in important private collections in Japan and Australia. While the larger body of her physical work that has sold has been to private individuals, while some businesses in Japan and the US have also purchased her work. Although many of her digital designs have been purchased by companies and businesses, for online content since 2008, and many of those designs have been the subject of numerous design awards within Australia, some receiving gold and silver medal placements, within the web designer awards networks.
Overall Estelle Asmodelle’s physical work has been exhibited in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney and regional NSW, while her digital work has been seen on the world wide web in many countries.
In 2010 Estelle published her first art book, entitled: “Transience,” which is a collection of her canvas work over a period of 20 years, which is thematically ordered and available in most larger bookstores and numerous online stores, from Barnes and Noble to Amazon. In 2014 a second book is planned for publishing, going to all online and selected bookstores, entitled: “Aesthetic in Abstraction,” which is a retrospective of her digital works.
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- Date written:
- 2013
- Last updated:
- 2013
