Home is delighted to announce we will be exhibiting work by Kirsty Budge in our first exhibition in 2019. The show titled ‘Melbourne Comes to Sydney’ will feature a stellar line-up of Melbourne artists.

Kirsty Budge’s work vacillates between abstraction and figuration. Her psychologically charged paintings are populated with humour, humans, hopes and horrors. The works connect personal experiences, thought patterns, observations and environments through intuitive processes. Real and imagined forms are combined on the same picture plane and, through the process of mark-making, each is given equal value in the space of the painting. The structure of each painting emerges through a lengthy process of excavation and application by the artist, resulting in an image that is both a response to and a construction of a personal narrative.

Kirsty Budge is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist. In 2016 she exhibited in The Painters Are In at Spring 1883, her first solo exhibition with Daine Singer; Painting. More Painting, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s major survey of Australian contemporary painting; I’m not desperate, you’re desperate, a solo exhibition at Sarah Scout Presents; and at the Spinnerei Leipzig in Germany.

During 2017 she had her second solo exhibition Gawkalitis with Daine Singer, exhibited in the VCA 150 alumni 9×5 exhibition and as a finalist in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery. In 2018, Budge undertook a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, as recipient of an Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship and exhibited in NADA New York.

Pictured is How could you do this to me question mark, 2017, oil on canvas.

Kirsty Budge is represented by Daine Singer