New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Kirsty Budge is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, recipient of the 2014 Stirling Collective Award for Painting and recent nominee for the 2017 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. She is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.
Born 1981, Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau
Lives and Works in Melbourne
EDUCATION
2014
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
- (forthcoming) Brown Mirror, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2022
- (I’ve got) half a mind, Daine Singer, Melbourne
- Melbourne Art Fair
2020
- If you’re gonna spew, spew into this, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019
- The Doing, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2017
- Gawkalitis, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2016
- The Painters Are In, Daine Singer at Spring 1883, Melbourne
- I’m not desperate you’re desperate, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
- Expressive potential: studies in abstraction, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
- Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2022
- Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2021
- Four X Four, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Australia
- Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia
- Spring1883, Melbourne2020 Daine Singer at FAIR presented by NADA
2020
- Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2019
- Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
- Melbourne comes to Sydney, Home @ 735, Sydney
- Killing Time, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne
2018
- Spring1883, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
- Daine Singer at NADA New York, USA
2017
- Daine Singer at Spring 1883, Sydney
- Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
- 9x5, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
- Present, VCA Art Space, Melbourne2016 Daine Singer at Invited, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2016
- Painting. More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne
2015
- Return, Daine Singer, Melbourne
- Another, Another One, Easey St Studios, curated by Emma-Jo Davies
- Tide, C3 Contemporary Art Space, curated by Justin Hinder
- MAN, Tristian Koenig, Collingwood, Melbourne
- Pretty Shit, Incidents above a Bar, Melbourne, curated by Colleen Ahern and Mark Hislop
2014
- Go Well, with Ro Noonan, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
- Faux Museum, C3 fundraiser curated by Kate Tucker and Melissa Loughnan
- VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- Paintings, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2021
- Winner, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2019
- Caselberg Trust Artist Residency, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2018
- Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
- Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2017
- Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2014
- Winner, Stirling Collective Award for Painting, Victorian College of the Arts
- Creative Artist Grant, University of Melbourne Student Union Residencies