Sandra Bushby

New Zealand

Sandra Bushby’s paintings are, at their most simple, experiments in form, colour and gesture. With her use of symmetry, spatial armatures, and a contrasting of soft and crisp edges, one sees an adherence to a set of conditions; conditions through which she produces a variety of works that court the unknown. Engaging philosophies of emergence, new materialism, colour sensation and phenomenology, Bushby extend the act of making to that of viewing. Inchoate by design, such paintings readily draw inference, suggestive not only of space, but also movement and time. They operate across varying registers of perception and understanding; concerning not only the representational image, but also that which is abstract, verbal and textual.

Bushby has exhibited widely across Aotearoa in recent years, and her work is held in notable collections, including Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand and Auckland Museum, as well as private collections in New Zealand, Australia and Europe.