Kirsty Budge is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist.

Recent exhibitions include If you’re gonna spew, spew into this (Daine Singer, 2020); FAIR by NADA, 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).

Budge has undertaken residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, as recipient of an Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship (2018), and at the Caselberg Trust on the Otago Peninsula, New Zealand (2019).

Budge has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she was recipient of the 2014 Stirling Collective Award for Painting. Her work is in the collections of Artbank and the City of Port Philip.

On Kirsty's paintings: “When you spend time with the paintings, a strong psychological element emerges, which suggests a very personal foundation. Like memories of a dream, these odd, mysterious, fractional scenes play out in a perfectly wonky tableau.” - Dan Rule, The Age.

Kirsty has a current Working With Children Check and has completed the Red Cross' First Aid - In An Education And Care Setting course.

Kirsty on Instagram.

Kirsty at Daine Singer Gallery - Artist Page (more images/info).