STEPHEN BUSH

Born Colac, Victoria 1958; lives and works in Melbourne.

 Stephen Bush is a painter whose practice is built on a series of works, each created through a different aesthetic approach but linked by their surreal sensibility. His chosen subjects are diverse and atypical: beekeepers, rubbish bins, alpine scenes, Babar the elephant and men on horses, amongst many other idiosyncratic references. Like his subject matter, Bush's painterly range is varied and free-flowing, moving from lurid abstraction to figuration realism.

 Bush has exhibited extensively in Australia and the USA since 1984. Highlights include his participation in Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, 2008; as well as a major solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe in 2007; and a survey exhibition at The Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, 2003.