NADA New York 2024

New Zealand-born, Australia-based artist Kirsty Budge presents a new body of work that continues her exploration of painting as a medium that acts “as some kind of connective tissue between the past and the present, as well as a paradoxical intention to transcend both”.

Budge’s paintings emerge from a process that combines deep introspection and an interest in psychoanalysis, and a broader view that embraces the richness of the world in all its absurdity and poignance. They are a complex and ambiguous mix of figuration, abstraction, personal narrative and external observation.