Grace Burzese is a Sydney based artist who works in the fields of painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics. Her process based art making is inspired by the exploration and play of colour, materials and form. Grace has held numerous solo exhibitions and has been collected in both private and public institutions.

Abstraction for Grace allows for an open identification with how one relates to being. In the questioning of self; feelings and perceptions are reduced to colour, mark and form - a language and sensibility which does not identify with known or understood imagery, but rather how something is sensed and embodied.

 

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Education

    1994            College of Fine Arts (COFA), Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Points on a Path, The Art of Grace Burzese Survey Exhibition, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery

2019 Draw In Draw Out, Our Neon Foe, Sydney

2016           Parallel Playground - Guy Brown and Grace Burzese, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney

    2013            I Surrender, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2011            This is not a Still Life, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2010            She Said, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2009           Ray Hughes Gallery,Sydney

    2007            Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2004            New Works at the Seymour Theatre, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2003            Painting in the Round, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2002            Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2001             Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    1997             Waiting to Float, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney

    1996            Temple. Tomb. Stone, Gallery 483, Sydney            

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2020 Gifted (Birkett & Weatherhead Collection), Shoalhaven Regional Gallery

2019 12 Years Flinders Street Gallery, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney

2018 Fabstraction, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney

    2017           My Emotionalism, Airspace Projects, Sydney

    2016            WAAM! It's Women' Abstract Art Man!, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery

    2015            Stockroom Show, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2015            The Metaphysical Edge:  seeing abstraction, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery 

    2013            Paddington Art Prize, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

    2013            15 Artists Exhibition, Redcliffe City Art Gallery

    2013            Fresh from the Studio '13, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2013            Paper Trail, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2012            Five Foot Square, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney

    2012            Five Foot Square, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery

    2012            Fresh from the Studio '12, Ray Hughes Gallery

    2010           Black is the Colour...,   Shoalhaven Regional Gallery    

    2009          Thinking Allowed, Evan Hughes, Sydney

    2009          Newtown Diaries, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

    2009          Personal Journeys - 40 Years of Australian Womens’ Abstract Art, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre

    2006          Sculpture and Painting, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2005           Janik Bouchette, Grace Burzese, Russel McQuilty, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2004           Jingle Bells - Painting and Sculpture, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2002           Sculpture and Painting, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2001            Grace Burzese and Russel McQuilty, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2001            Works from the Collection, COFA, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

    2000            Fischer’s Ghost, Campbelltown City Art Gallery

    2000            Paint and Steel, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2000            On the Tiles, Sir Herman Black Gallery, The University of Sydney Union

    2000            Ten in Transit, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong

    2000            New Nine, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney

    2000            Various Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    2000            Willoughby City Art Prize

    1999             Paint and Steel, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

    1998             Four on the Floor, Gallery 19, Sydney

    1998            Berrima Young Artist Award (2nd place), Berrima Art Society

    1997             Fictional Extremities, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney

    1996            Sulman Art Prize, AGNSW, Sydney

        

Collections

                    Artbank

                    Ray White Collection, Sydney

                    University of Sydney                    

                    Students’ Association, COFA

                    MG Dingle & GB Hughes Collection, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery 

                    Private Collections Austria, London and Australia  

Publications / Reproduced

Max Dingle     WAAM! It's Women's Abstract Art Man! 2016  

Max Dingle      The Metaphysical Edge:  seeing abstraction 2015

David Novak-Piper    Belle Australia, Right Now Man, Right Now Woman, December/January 2013/14, pp. 97 & 98

The Hughes Gallery     Five Foot Square Exhibition Catalogue, 2012

Max Dingle        Black is the Colour...  2010

Max Dingle      Personal Journeys - 40 Years of Australian Women's Abstract Art, 2009

Cyndi Tebbel      Tetsuya, Inside Out, July/August, 2005, p. 28

Alvarez Adriana      Gallery 19 Very Inner City, Revolver, 30 September 1998, p66,