Kerry Buckland

Born in Melbourne, Australia. Moved to the west coast of Victoria where an increasing interest in the environment and indigenous plant species was established. Started studying painting at Geelong Fine Art School for a few years.Completed a Diploma of Visual Art in Geelong 1995-96. Traveled to Indonesia and Europe. Exhibited in Melbourne and was represented by Bulle Galleries. Graduated from a Bachelor Of Arts- Fine Art with distinction in 2004 at RMIT and continued with postgraduate studies, completing a Master of Fine Art from RMIT in 2006. In 2005 won the Siemens/RMIT Post Graduate Fine Art Scholarship which enabled travel to New York in March 2007 to complete a Residency at the Gershwin Hotel. My current practice examines aspects of contemporary Western cultures relationship to the environment. Using media which is usually associated with mass production and mass culture, it explores the cultural mediation of nature. The work explores decorative floral motifs extracted from nature and employs them as emblems of this cultural mediation.In 2010 I was Artist in Residence at St Vincents Hospital Melbourne. 2012 I was an artist in Residence at Can Serrat in Barcelona. 2013=2014 I have been awarded a returning Artist In Residency a...

1987-1993 -Painting, Geelong Fine Art School
1995-1996 Advanced Diploma of Visual Art- Gordon Tafe Geelong
1997- 1998- Post Graduate Studies- Painting – Gordon Tafe Geelong
2000-2004- Bachelor of Arts- Fine Art- with Distinction RMIT Melbourne
2005-2006- Master of Fine Art. RMIT Melbourne

1999- A Long View-Mahoney’s Gallery-Melbourne
2000- Emerging Artists Program-Bulle Galleries -Melbourne
2001- Environments-Automatic-Crown Casino-Melbourne
2002- Environments- Mira fine Art-Melbourne
2005- Chromed Flora- Intrude Gallery –Fitzroy
2007-A Constructed Nature-The Gershwin Hotel- New York
2008- Transient- The Gershwin Hotel New York
2009-Shining Happy People-ARS Upstairs @ The Napier Hotel-Fitzroy- Melbourne
2011-Constructed Nature Retrospective-ARS Upstairs @ The Napier Hotel Fitzroy, Melbourne
2016-Constructed Flora-St Vincents Hospital Gallery, Fitzroy Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002- John Leslie Art Award-Gippsland Gallery- Sale
2002- A4-Westspace Gallery-Melbourne
2003- Colours Down Under-Art Seasons Gallery-Singapore
2003- Geelong Regional Artists-Gordon Gallery-Geelong
2003- McGivern Art Prize-Maroondah Gallery-Ringwood
2003- Shop Stop Art-Sydney Road- Brunswick
2003- Siemens Fine Art Scholarship-RMIT Melbourne
2003- New Collectables-First Site Gallery-RMIT Melbourne
2004- Post Card Show-Linden Gallery Melbourne
2004- Cromwells Art Prize-Sydney
2004- A4-Westspace Gallery-Melbourne
2005- Arthur Guy Painting Prize-Bendigo Art Gallery
2005- Siemens Fine Art Scholarship-RMIT Melbourne ...