A brief note 

PROFESSOR MOSTYN BRAMLEY-MOORE is pictured here in the Solomon Islands.

He was born in Wollongong in 1952.

Vincent Price, actor, but equally famous as an art collector, once said that art is less about seeing, and more about knowing.

Consider Mostyn’s career: He achieved a BA in Fine Arts and English at the University of Sydney in 1974. He went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Pratt Institute in New York, in 1977. The Pratt Institute was (and is) one of the world’s most prestigious centres of Art and Design. Mostyn also had his first individual exhibition in New York, in 1977. He then went on to France and, from 1977 to 1978, was the Resident artist at the Powers Studio, in the Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris.

In 1980-81 Mostyn was the Resident artist at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, which he followed up by being the Visiting Fellow, at the Hirshorn Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, in 1982. Some years later, in 1995, he was the Visiting Professor of Art at the University of Hawaii.

Between 1982 and 1996 we exhibited Mostyn’s work on five separate occasions.

David Bromfield famously reported in the West Australian, 26th August, 1995, that Mostyn “competes for the title of the artist who does the most with the least”.