Emily Rose Hastie
Artist Bio

Emily Rose Hastie is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with pyrography (wood-burning), from her studio on Kombumerri Country in Burleigh Heads, Queensland. Her practice is grounded in a reverence for the natural world, with each work representing a dialogue between artist and material, the unique grain of carefully sourced timber becoming an active collaborator in her storytelling.

Exploring themes of connection, identity, and place, Emily’s practice is driven by a deep desire to honour, protect, and preserve nature through meditative mark-making and the element of fire as a creative tool.

Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts/Education from the University of Queensland (2016) and formally emerged as a visual artist in 2018 with her debut at SoFA Gallery, Currumbin. Shortly thereafter, she joined SoFA as a resident alongside established artists Dean Cogle, Andrew Cullen and Dion Parker. In 2019, she co-founded Mint Art House on the Gold Coast, a dynamic artist-run initiative and cooperative studio space, where she continues to create and exhibit.

Her work has been exhibited across notable venues including the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2025), Woodford Folk Festival (2023-2024), Affordable Art Fair in Brisbane (2024-2025) and Sydney (2023), Tweed Regional Gallery’s Border Prize (2020), Dust Temple (2019–2022, 2025), and This Is Art’s ‘Arcana’ exhibition (2021), where her original pyrographic work Koala Park was personally acquired by acclaimed filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.

In 2021, Emily launched her inaugural solo exhibition “Legends of the Surf”, which raised thousands of dollars for local conservation and mental health charities (Surfrider Foundation, LIVIN and Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve). This portrait series, created with the blessing of the Gold Coast’s most revered surf pioneers including Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson and Stephanie Gilmore, celebrated their contribution to the region's rich cultural legacy.

In 2022, Emily expanded her practice into sculpture with the creation of Ne Plus Ultra, exhibited in the 20th anniversary of the Swell Sculpture Festival. The work earned both the People’s Choice Award and the Jennie Neumann Emerging Artist Award, recognising her as a new voice in contemporary Australian sculpture.

She is currently expanding her body of work to include larger-scale artworks and projects that centre storytelling, social and ecological consciousness.

Emily welcomes opportunities to exhibit, collaborate, and contribute meaningfully to artistic, educational, and environmental platforms, both nationally and internationally.