Emily Rose Hastie is a CoFounder of Mint Art House, whose art practice moves between drawing, painting, and pyrography (wood burning).

Emily was born and raised on the Gold Coast, completing her Bachelor Arts/Education at the University of Queensland, St Lucia. Emily’s artwork is focussed on our relationship with the natural environment, with a persistent desire to connect with, protect and respect nature at the heart of her creations.

Emily has exhibited at The Bower Estate (2024), Woodford Folk Festival (2023), The Usher Cup (2023), Kallalu Gallery (2021), the Gold Coast Level Up Gallery (2019, 2021), and This Is Art “Arcana” exhibition (2021) where her original pyrographic work ‘Koala Park’ was collected by Baz Lurhmann.

Emily has also been a finalist in the Tweed Regional Gallery Border Prize (2020), Dean Cogle Portrait Prize (2020, 2021, 2022) and Swell Sculpture Festival (2022, 2023). She received the honour of the Swell Sculpture Festival People’s Choice and Jennie Neumann Emerging Artist awards for her first sculpture ‘Ne Plus Ultra’ (2022).

Emily’s 2021 inaugural solo exhibition “Legends of the Surf” raised thousands for three local conservation and mental health organisations through the auction of 15 original portraits with permission of Gold Coast’s most celebrated surf icons, including Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore, Wayne Bartholomew and Mark Occhilupo.

She has completed a residency in Spain with internationally acclaimed sculptor Ginés Serrán-Pagán in 2023 and more recently Golden Bay, New Zealand courtesy of the Craig Potton Gallery in 2024.

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