Teresa Busuttil (b. 1993) is a visual artist from South Australia, living and working in Gozo, Malta. Working across sculpture and moving image, her practice explores how histories are carried through materials, places, objects, and experience.
Busuttil often works with found, discarded, and used materials, approaching them as carriers of memory and traces of experience. Through processes that allow for improvisation, transformation, and chance, she revisits sites and experiences to consider the unstable relationship between history and lore. Her work engages with ideas of time, ritual, migration, assimilation, and belonging, often moving between the personal and the collective.
Busuttil works through close observation and an openness to what emerges through making. This results in works that hold ambiguity and contradiction, where the familiar can become strange and histories can be reimagined through intimate, material encounters.
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Busuttil was selected for Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and, in the same year, undertook a major commission for the Malta Biennale of Art, Frejgatina (2024). In 2023, she presented the solo exhibition Asleep with the Fishes at Firstdraft, Sydney, developed through the Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Studio Program. Recent exhibitions include Stranger than Fiction, West Space, Melbourne (2024); Passage, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW (2024); and Studios 2023 ACE, Adelaide (2023).
In 2025, Busuttil was awarded a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Busuttil often works with found, discarded, and used materials, approaching them as carriers of memory and traces of experience. Through processes that allow for improvisation, transformation, and chance, she revisits sites and experiences to consider the unstable relationship between history and lore. Her work engages with ideas of time, ritual, migration, assimilation, and belonging, often moving between the personal and the collective.
Busuttil works through close observation and an openness to what emerges through making. This results in works that hold ambiguity and contradiction, where the familiar can become strange and histories can be reimagined through intimate, material encounters.
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Busuttil was selected for Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and, in the same year, undertook a major commission for the Malta Biennale of Art, Frejgatina (2024). In 2023, she presented the solo exhibition Asleep with the Fishes at Firstdraft, Sydney, developed through the Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Studio Program. Recent exhibitions include Stranger than Fiction, West Space, Melbourne (2024); Passage, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW (2024); and Studios 2023 ACE, Adelaide (2023).
In 2025, Busuttil was awarded a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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