Raymond Mather

Selected exhibitions, awards, and professional appointments from a four-decade creative practice.

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Practice Overview

Raymond’s photographic work explores abstraction, human traces, and poetic moments across landscape, object, and environment. Each artwork begins with his original photographic capture and is developed individually through a layered digital process refined since 2006. Working at the edge of destruction, Raymond pushes each image until a new artistic version emerges, using visual tension, artefacts, and density as expressive elements that preserve and heighten the essence of the original moment.

Works by Raymond Mather are held in public museum collections and are catalogued through the National Library of Australia’s Trove archive.

Solo Exhibitions

View the exhibition evolution of Coastal Noir in the Journal.

• MAT19
Murwillumbah Arts Trail, NSW. 2019

• Lost In The Bush 
Old John’s Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2019

• Coffs Goes POP
Old John’s Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2019

• Coastal Noir
SHIMMER Photographic Biennale, panel-selected, City of Onkaparinga, SA, 2018

• Extreme Cladding
Cell Art Space, Cairns, QLD (Solo exhibition, 3D installation), 2003

• Tropicale
Festival Cairns, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, QLD (Digital installation), 2000

• Tropicale
Lifestyle Café, Cairns, QLD, 2000

• Tropical
The Edge, Sydney, NSW (First solo exhibition, sold out), 2000

Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions are documented with installation views and related journal entries.

• #BESTILL A Pandemic Art Challenge
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW (Three works selected, exhibited online and in-gallery), 2020

• Northern Exposure 6
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2020

• New Year New Work
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW, 2019

• The Other Portrait
Proudfoot's Loading Dock Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW, 2019

• The Artist Selfie Exhibition
M-Arts, Murwillumbah, NSW, 2019

• Northern Exposure 5
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2018

• Hitting On & Kicking Off, KickArts
Centre of Contemporary Arts (CoCA), inaugural exhibition, opened by Rupert Myer, Cairns, QLD, 2004

• River, Stream, Pond
Barry Stern Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, NSW, 2000

Selected Awards & Prize Selections

Related artworks and selection records are preserved in the Selected Credits Archive.

• The Percival Photographic Portrait Prize
Finalist, 2018, 2026

• The Lethbridge 20000 Prize
Finalist, 2019

• The Lethbridge 10000 Prize
Finalist, 2018

• STILL National Still Life Award
Selected for STILL Salon, 2017, 2019

• Your Health Link National Photographic Competition
Finalist and Semi-Finalist (multiple works, multiple categories), 2016–2018

• Moran Photographic Portrait Prize
Semi-Finalist, 2011, 2016

Public Collections

Collection records and documentation are available in the Archive.

• Coffs Harbour City Collection
• Coffs Harbour Regional Museum Collection

Selected Publications & Catalogues

Scans, excerpts, and project documentation appear in the Archive and Journal.

• The Percivals Photographic Exhibition catalogue
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
Finalist publication, 2018

• The Kempsey Place Plan - the journey continues
Community and government publication, NSW Government, 
Photography and visual documentation in collaboration with Dr Jan Strom, 2018

• Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) - 10th Anniversary Publication
Selected photographic documentation of artworks from the Coffs Harbour City Collection reproduced in the EMSLA 10th Anniversary publication, 2016

• The Most Interesting Person I Know (MIPIK)
Community portrait project and published book, 
Lead photographer, Cr8Studios - four-day intensive portrait project photographing 27 participants (in collaboration with writer Stephanie Hunt), 2015

• Keith Bain: The Principles of Movement
Edited by Michael Campbell.

Book cover visual artwork contribution by Raymond Mather, derived from a portrait of Keith Bain held at NIDA. The portrait, titled Keith Bain (everyone is doing the farandole), by Jenny Sages, was a finalist in the 1993 Archibald Prize.

Official Book Launch: Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, 2005.

Art Commission

Project documentation is included in the Archive.

• Amphora Resort, Palm Cove, QLD
Commissioned by interior design firm for new resort opening, 2004.
Five original artworks selected, reproduced, framed, and installed across approximately 100 guest rooms.

Editorial Photography

Published work and project records are preserved in the Archive.

• Burke’s Backyard Magazine (March 2001)
Commissioned full editorial shoot documenting contemporary landscape architecture projects by Andrew Prowse in Port Douglas, QLD. Shot on slide film for national print publication.

 

Contact and Further Information

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