e. mswendybusch@gmail.com
​Image: Matto Lucas

CV:
​Residency: 
2016 (July) - 2017 (June) Bayside Artist in Residence Program  Bililla Mansion, Brighton VIC
Education
Master of Fine Art with Distinction, RMIT University Melbourne 2013
Bachelor of Fine Art and Visual Culture, Curtin University 2012
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Unusable Furniture: One Size Fits All, Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, VIC April 13-May 5
2016 Second Guessing Red Gallery, Melbourne VIC  June 29- July 16
2014 Unfix Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne VIC
Selected Group Shows:
2017: Another World 6th - 23rd June, Red Gallery Fitzroy, VIC
2016 From The Studio Artist in Residence exhibition, The Gallery @ BACC, 19th November-21st December 
2016 State to State for MoreArt Public Art Show: Passage, ​23rd October-18th December, Curated by Jane O'Neil
2016 A Painting to the Sounds of Death ​collaboration  for Melbourne Fringe 
2013 RMIT MFA Graduate Exhibition Gossard Space, Melbourne VIC

Studio. 
​www.cozensstreetstudio.com

I was born in Hobart and currently live and work in Melbourne.  I am a painter and my work is an exploration of self-perception.  I am interested in contrasting viewpoints of the self and one’s place within the world.
 I work with oil and enamel to construct paintings that explore feelings of alienation and psychological tension involved in human subjectivity.

The process developed includes the layering of enamel to produce sheer grounds, which incorporate a divide. This divide splits the background, in order to isolate the figure in abstract psychological space (the figure being either painted or the viewer reflection).  The division is put in place in order to investigate the tension involved in attempting to simultaneously comprehend internal and external views of the self.