ABOUT

Born in South Africa, Jaqueline Burgess is an Australian painter.
As a finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 in 2023 and the Arts In The Valley in 2022 and a semi- finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait prize in 2016,
her body of work moves between landscape painting and portrait painting.
Jaqueline is currently represented by Gallery Alchemy. 
With early training in South Africa in Fine Art, Jaqueline traveled to Europe to work as an Artist, Muralist and Art Teacher in a private school.
 
Jaqueline creates works that reflect the Australian landscape. Her love of the land and coastline has influenced Jaqueline's work
in a way that allows her to move between semi surreal landscapes and seascapes with the intention of depicting light in its changing qualities.
Primarily exploring the natural way in which light filters through trees and reflects off water, Jaqueline has compiled a body of work
inspired by photographs and sketches she has collected on coastal and bush walks.  
Each work portarying a memory of an emotion linked to a certain landscape at the time.
The dream like quality of the subdued pallet creates a grounded visual engagement throughout the works.

"Landscape painting embues my desire to paint the beauty I see everyday,
especially in the coastal area where I live.
I’ve always imagined that my emotional response to the landscape could be put to canvas."
 
 Awards
Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 2023
Finalist - Visual Arts in the Valley 2022 
Semi-Finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2016
Gallery Representation 
2023  Gallery Alchemy - Milton
 Gallery Exhibitions 
15.06.2023  Gallery Alchemy - Affordable Art Fair, Sydney - Group Exhibition
Selected Exhibitions 
29.04.2023  55Parrots - Bulli - Group Exhibition
02.02.2022  King and Ayres - Wollongong
02.01.2021 55Parrots - Bulli -  Group Exhibition
30.11.2020 - Wonderland Arts Festival Tamarama SLSC
27.04.2020 “Raw & Nautical: Timber Mill - Bulli
25.10.2019 The Other Art Fair - Saatchi Art
13.09.2019 King and Ayres - Wollongong
4.09.2019 Horizon - University of Wollongong
09.09.2016 KLM 247 Princes Highway - Bulli - Solo Exhibition 
02.09.2016 Beach Burrito - Wollongong - Solo Exhibition
12.02.2015 - Bondi Art Lounge - Bondi
30.10.2014 - Bondi Art Lounge - Bondi
10.09.2014 - Bondi Art Lounge - Group Exhibition
01.08.2014 - 'Allure' Manning Bar - Sydney
21.06.2014 'Awaken' - Whitehouse Institute Of Design Sydney
 Solo Exhibition
17.11.2009 -  Notting Hill - London 
Education
Natal Technicon / South Africa
First-year Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2000
Bibliography
South Coaster magazine, cover and several features within 
“Cockatoo”, Thames & Hudson, 2017 p.22 p.23 p.28
“Koala”, Thames & Hudson, 2016 P.38
“Amazing Australian Artists”, Artmegallery
Allyssa Constable and Danielle Gilbert, 2014 p.48

 

PRESS:
ART EDIT MAGAZINE ISSUE 28 INTERVIEW WITH "THE WOMANS PIC" 2020
 THE ILLAWARRA MERCURY , Cover, 3 page article by Tareyn Varley , 24.03.2019
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SYDNEY, Elizabeth Fortescue, 06.04.2019 P.74 2515
LOCAL NEWS MAGAZINE, Cover, Genevieve Swart, 24.10.2019 P.18
GRAZIA MAGAZINE, LONDON P.8, 2015
THE ART SPECTRUM, AUSTRALIA, 15.06.2018