Kirsty Budge (b.1981, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, lives in Djarra Country/Castlemaine, Australia)
Education
2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Sunnyside, Cooke Latham Gallery, London
2025 Bridge and Tunnel, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2024 Buried in Bits, NADA Art Fair, New York
2024 Brown Mirror: Paintings from Behind, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2022 (I’ve got) half a mind, Daine Singer, Melbourne 2022 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
2016 I’m not desperate you’re desperate, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2025 Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
2025 Melbourne Art Fair
2024 Minor Attractions, London, UK
2024 Melbourne Art Fair 2024 How to Swim, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2024 Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Expressive Potential: studies in abstraction, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2023 Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2021 Four X Four, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Australia
2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia
2021 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
2019 Melbourne comes to Sydney, Home @ 735, Sydney
2018 Spring1883, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2018 Daine Singer at NADA New York, USA
2019 Killing Time, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne
2017 Daine Singer at Spring 1883, Sydney
2017 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2017 9x5, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Present, VCA Art Space, Melbourne 2016 Daine Singer at Invited, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2016 Painting. More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne
2015 Return, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2015 Another, Another One, Easey St Studios, curated by Emma-Jo Davies
2015 Tide, C3 Contemporary Art Space, curated by Justin Hinder
2015 MAN, Tristian Koenig, Collingwood, Melbourne
2015 Pretty Shit, Incidents above a Bar, Melbourne, curated by Colleen Ahern and Mark Hislop
2014 Go Well, with Ro Noonan, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Faux Museum, C3 fundraiser curated by Kate Tucker and Melissa Loughnan
2014 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2014 Paintings, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
Site-specific Projects
2013 7x3m Mural - South Lawn Carpark, University of Melbourne
Bibliography
2024 Brian P. Kelly, ‘NADA New York Reviews: Gem Hunting’, Wall Street Journal
2024 Elaine Velie, ‘A Painting-Centric Fair Marks 10 Years of NADA in New York’, Hyperallergic
2024 Dr Kyla McFarlane, ‘Brown Mirror’ catalogue essay, Daine Singer
2022 Tessa Moldan, ‘Melbourne Art Fair: Artwork Selections 2022’, Ocula >>. 2022 Inside Painter Kirsty Budge’s Apartment Studio
2021 Clare Needham, ‘In conversation with 2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize Winner Kirsty Budge‘, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2021 >>
2021 Nick Miller, ‘OK, is this a fresh hell? Or a prize-winning painting?’ The Age/ The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 2021 >>
2020 ‘In the studio’ Daine Singer interview with Kirsty Budge >>
2020 Nadiah Abdulrahim, ‘If you’re gonna spew, spew into this’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer
2019 Will Cox, In the Galleries, 5 shows to see in April, Broadsheet
2019 Nadiah Abdulrahim, ‘Kirsty Budge - The Doing’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer
2018 Zara Sigglekow, Killing Time (Editorial review), Art Guide Australia, Nov/Dec
2018 Valerie McPhail, NADA New York the best we’ve seen, Metal Magazine, March
2018 Matt Mullen, Top 10 Must-See Artists at NADA 2018, Interview Magazine, 9 March
2017 Brodie Lancaster, 'Kirsty Budge - Gawkalitis', catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2017 Artist Kirsty Budge in her own words, University of Melbourne, 2017
2016 Painting. More Painting, ex. cat. ACCA, Melbourne 2016
2016 Dan Rule, 'Our pick of the best exhibitions in town', The Age, 8 April 2016 >>
2015 Dan Rule, 'What to see in Melbourne Galleries this week', The Age, 11 December 2015
2015 Tai Snaith, Review of 'Man Group Show', Smart Arts 3RRR, 19 March 2015
2015 Dan Rule, The Age 'What to see in Melbourne Galleries this week', 27 March 2015 >>
2013 Annemarie Kiely, 'Rooftop Art Space', Vogue Living March 2013 >> 2013 Annemarie Kiely, 'Rooftop Art Space', Vogue Living March 2013 >>
Grants and Awards
2025 Finalist, Wollongong Art Prize
2024 Finalist, Bayside Painting Prize
2021 Winner, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2019 Caselberg Trust Artist Residency, Dunedin, New Zealand
2019 Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2018 Winner, Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship, Cité Internationale 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
2014 Creative Artist Grant, University of Melbourne Student Union Residencies