KIRSTY BUDGE
IF YOU’RE GONNA SPEW, SPEW INTO THIS
18 NOVEMBER - 19 DECEMBER 2020
Kirsty Budge’s new paintings combine deep introspection and an interest in psychoanalysis with a broader view that embraces the richness of the world. They are a complex and ambiguous mix of figuration, abstraction, personal narrative and landscape.
Budge’s painting method embraces intuition, a process that the artist describes as “the intention of painting itself and the point where you break away from what you literally see, listen to what the work is doing and follow the intuitive composition emerging within the painting.”
In Budge’s process the removal of paint is equal to its application. Layering and excavation are vital to the construction of the composition, as forms that initially appear to be at the forefront of the work are actually exposed remnants of the past underpainting. This process is a metaphor for the artist’s approach to situations, problem-solving and daily life: “It’s important to me to make paintings that reference their own making in order to initiate a non-linear narrative.”
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Kirsty Budge is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist. Recent exhibitions include NADA FAIR, New York (Daine Singer, 2020); Melbourne Art Fair (Daine Singer, 2020); The Doing (Daine Singer, 2019); NADA New York (Daine Singer, 2018); Gawkalitis, Daine Singer (2017), The Painters are In, Spring 1883 (Daine Singer, 2016), and I’m not desperate, you’re desperate, Sarah Scout Presents (2016). Group exhibitions include Killing Time, Chapter House Lane (2018); VCA 150 alumni 9x5, Margaret Lawrence Gallery (2017), Painting. More Painting, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2016), Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany (2016), Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (2019, 2017), Return, Daine Singer (2015), Man, Tristian Koenig (2015); Pretty Shit, Incidents Above a Bar (2015) and Paintings, C3 (2014).
