Teresa Busuttil (b. 1993) is a visual artist living and working between Malta and Tarntanya/Adelaide, South Australia.
Her practice explores how memory is held and transmitted. Blending personal stories, family history and fantasy through multidisciplinary forms of art that includes sculpture, installation and moving images. She draws from kitsch aesthetic and religious iconography to explore dualities and contradictions present in personal and political history, emotional and cultural inheritance, time and memory.
Busuttil was selected for Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In the same year, she undertook a major commission for the Malta Biennale of Art, Frejgatina (2024).
In 2023, she was invited to present a solo exhibition, Asleep with the Fishes, at Firstdraft, Sydney as a studio tennent with Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Studio Program.
Other recent exhibitions include Stranger than Fiction, West Space, Melbourne (2024); Passage, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW (2024); and Studios 2023 ACE, Adelaide (2023).
contact
teresawbusuttil@gmail.com
Her practice explores how memory is held and transmitted. Blending personal stories, family history and fantasy through multidisciplinary forms of art that includes sculpture, installation and moving images. She draws from kitsch aesthetic and religious iconography to explore dualities and contradictions present in personal and political history, emotional and cultural inheritance, time and memory.
Busuttil was selected for Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In the same year, she undertook a major commission for the Malta Biennale of Art, Frejgatina (2024).
In 2023, she was invited to present a solo exhibition, Asleep with the Fishes, at Firstdraft, Sydney as a studio tennent with Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Studio Program.
Other recent exhibitions include Stranger than Fiction, West Space, Melbourne (2024); Passage, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW (2024); and Studios 2023 ACE, Adelaide (2023).
contact
teresawbusuttil@gmail.com
