New Work - Grace Burzese
25 September, 2009 - 21 October, 2009

Having followed a practice as an abstract painter for over ten years, Grace Burzese’s works are often high key, lyrical paintings that reference nature. This reference is not a literal thing, rather, a sense of how she experiences the essence of a landscape, environment or emotion.

Grace’s paintings are concerned with formal colour and spatial relationships. Paint is applied in a gestural action. The work is built in response to layering and placement of marks and colours. Marks float on the canvas where the paint has been applied loosely and colours mixed directly onto the painting. The artist draws on nature and sounds within her environment. The flurry of movement, a thing glimpsed – almost as it would be captured out of focus, yet trying to reveal something of its essential nature. The cacophony of sound. Colours and sounds aswarm.

Grace Burzese is represented in public and private collections including the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts and the University of Sydney, and private collections in Australia and  Singapore.

A colour catalogue accompanies this exhibition.