Anthony Buselli
‘The images in my work are based on my immediate environment. My compositions try to convey the apprehension of the sublime in the everyday play of light in space.
Through a mixture of observation and a spontaneous gestural process my paintings are metaphors of the built environment. Just as buildings are built, renovated or demolished and display wear and tear so do my paintings demonstrate the means of their construction.
Making past erasures and subsequent additions obvious in the surface of the paint surface there is an emphasis on abstract mark making. None the less these gestures insist on depiction and emotional resonance.’
Buselli graduated from UNSW College of Fine Arts in 2004 with a Masters in Fine Arts. He has exhibited widely for the last two decades and been a finalist in many notable art awards, including the Salon des Refusés (2016, 1999), Mosman Art Prize (2015, 2009, 2008, 2007) and the Wynne Prize (1999).
Buselli was awarded the Peoples Choice Award in the Paddington Art Prize in 2023 and was a finalist in the inaugural Defiance Award in 2026.