Competitions
Gina Bruce
Instagram: @ginambruce
Website: Ginabruce.com
Artwork Title: Fossicker on the Slag Heap
Artwork Medium: Watercolour on cotton paper
Year Created: 2024
Artwork Description:
Painted ‘en plein air’ half way up the ‘slag heap’ in Broken Hill in the far west of NSW, I was set up not far from a number of other painters. One of the other painters, Ann Thomson, walked into my view to look for some interesting items on the ground, and so I included her into my painting. I used transparent watercolours on 300gsm cotton paper and I used the English watercolour technique (working from light to dark and leaving the white of the page as the white) to create this painting.
Artist Statement:
I work ‘en Plein air’ on a field easel on location. I also work in my studio in Sydney and develop my location drawings and paintings into studio paintings. The painting included in this exhibition is painted in watercolour directly from observation while I was on a three week residency in Broken Hill in the far west of NSW.
Artist Bio:
Gina Bruce is a Sydney-based visual artist known for her evocative and introspective works spanning drawing and painting in watercolour, ink, acrylic, oil and egg tempera. A graduate of the National Art School with an Honours degree in Fine Arts, Bruce’s practice explores the intersection of memory, landscape, and the human condition. Since her debut in 2001, she has exhibited widely, including numerous solo shows at Robin Gibson Gallery, most recently Ancient Innocence (2024). Her work has featured in major national art prizes such as the Sulman Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, Mosman Art Prize, Paddington Art Prize and the Kedumba Drawing Prize. Bruce has been awarded several significant honours including a William Fletcher Foundation grant (2024), the Waverley Art Prize (2011), and the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award (2002). In 2003, she was awarded the Art Gallery of NSW residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, further enriching her international perspective. Bruce is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute and works in a studio at Lennox Street Studios in Newtown. She is represented by Liverpool Street Gallery
