'Psalm at Gap Beach' - Adam Oste
61 × 51cm
Oil on canvas.
This piece is an original by Adam Oste, created in 2025 for a HAKE House group exhibtion ‘SYNERGY’. To enquire about this piece please click here.
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Artist Bio;
Adam Oste is an Australian artist based on Gumbaynggirr Country, on the North Coast of New South Wales. He graduated from UNSW Art & Design in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Education (Hons), receiving the Lindsay Prize. He was awarded the 2019 Waverley Woollahra Art Prize and has been a finalist in the 2025 National Still Life Award, the 2021 Northern Beaches Art Prize, the 2019 Macquarie Emerging Artist Prize, and the 2017 Kilgour Prize. His work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally.
Since relocating from Sydney in 2019, Oste has shifted his plein-air focus from the contested landscapes of Botany Bay to the dense rainforest of the North Coast. This shift in place has been accompanied by a widening of subject matter. Oste’s paintings examine personal and social realities, exploring the paradox of destruction and renewal, violence and stillness, loss and love. His recent works examine the intimacy of the familial and domestic alongside the brutality and silence of wreckages of stolen cars dumped in the local bushland. These vehicles—once violent objects of speed, now stilled and overtaken by lantana—become sites where fragility, violence, and resilience coalesce. Painting exclusively from life, Oste turns his eye to beauty and brokenness alike, examining the grace and privilege of calm at home alongside the lived realities of communities navigating disadvantage, disconnection and survival. Oste reflects: “Through the act of painting directly from life, I’m led to a state of fear, wonder, and exultation. Floored by the immensity of death and life in flux before me, I’m afforded an opportunity to consider my own mortality, my own place in it all, painting as prayer.”
Through his practice, Oste creates spaces of contemplation where beauty and brokenness are seen not as opposites, but as intertwined truths of life.
'Psalm at Gap Beach' - Adam Oste
61 × 51cm
Oil on canvas.
This piece is an original by Adam Oste, created in 2025 for a HAKE House group exhibtion ‘SYNERGY’. To enquire about this piece please click here.
Please find shipping information for this piece, or please enquire here.
We are delighted to be partnering with Zip Money as an additional check out option. For questions regarding this process please reach out here.
Artist Bio;
Adam Oste is an Australian artist based on Gumbaynggirr Country, on the North Coast of New South Wales. He graduated from UNSW Art & Design in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Education (Hons), receiving the Lindsay Prize. He was awarded the 2019 Waverley Woollahra Art Prize and has been a finalist in the 2025 National Still Life Award, the 2021 Northern Beaches Art Prize, the 2019 Macquarie Emerging Artist Prize, and the 2017 Kilgour Prize. His work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally.
Since relocating from Sydney in 2019, Oste has shifted his plein-air focus from the contested landscapes of Botany Bay to the dense rainforest of the North Coast. This shift in place has been accompanied by a widening of subject matter. Oste’s paintings examine personal and social realities, exploring the paradox of destruction and renewal, violence and stillness, loss and love. His recent works examine the intimacy of the familial and domestic alongside the brutality and silence of wreckages of stolen cars dumped in the local bushland. These vehicles—once violent objects of speed, now stilled and overtaken by lantana—become sites where fragility, violence, and resilience coalesce. Painting exclusively from life, Oste turns his eye to beauty and brokenness alike, examining the grace and privilege of calm at home alongside the lived realities of communities navigating disadvantage, disconnection and survival. Oste reflects: “Through the act of painting directly from life, I’m led to a state of fear, wonder, and exultation. Floored by the immensity of death and life in flux before me, I’m afforded an opportunity to consider my own mortality, my own place in it all, painting as prayer.”
Through his practice, Oste creates spaces of contemplation where beauty and brokenness are seen not as opposites, but as intertwined truths of life.
