Painting Now 2023: Sally Bourke

Having garnered a significant following with a strong collector base in Australia and abroad, Sally Bourke is widely recognised as one of the most compelling artists of her generation. With their beguiling mix of lush formality and a playfully idiosyncratic style, her paintings skilfully move between different painterly modes, blurring figurative portraiture with areas of diaphanous, colour-soaked abstraction. This shape-shifting quality aligns with her interest in memory. Despite its abstract nature, her work appears curiously familiar, stirring a feeling akin to how we might access the past through hazy, half-remembered images.

For more information about works of art by Sally Bourke, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au