Ray Besserdin

Internationally acclaimed Paper Sculpture Artist from Melbourne, Australia. Ray Besserdin, has established a 35-year career that is recognised internationally with extensive awards to date, including two gold from New York, and a “Gold Medal for Creativity” from Mondial Art Academia, France. Born to artist parents, Ray’s techniques are entirely self-taught. He sculptures artworks dimensionally much like bas-reliefs working with “a palette of sheet-formed papers” that offer a wide spectrum of colours, textures, solidity, and delicate translucency. The stocks are mostly mould-made or handmade cotton, mulberry (Kozo), hemp and flax stocks from Europe and Asia. Works range from miniature to over 6 by 3.8 metres and vary from abstract to ultra-realistic. Inspired by painters of the French Impressionist Period, Ray pioneered and developed a technique to achieve their kind of aesthetic expression using sculptured torn papers three-dimensionally, where they used paint two- dimensionally. This “Impressionist Sculptured Paper” is what he considers his signature style. Its focus is to capture emotion, life, and expression over realism using torn, raw pieces arranged into the likeness of the subject yet always revealing the character and nat...

EDUCATION La Trobe University, Biological Sciences Degree, 1982

Solo:
2023- Ladder Art Space, A Unique Journey Into the Paper Sculpture World of Ray Besserdin", VIC, Australia

2019 - Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Cranbourne Gallery, Paper Landscapes, VIC, Australia
2019 -The National Trust Victoria, Rippon Lea Estate, Paper Landscapes, Elsternwick, VIC, Australia 2019 - Christie Spaces, Paper Landscapes, Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Combined:

2022- Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Art Prize 2022,WA, Australia
2022- Woollam Art on Show Awards Mackay, QLD, Australia
2022 - Lethbridge Gallery, Finalist 20000 Australia’s Biggest Small Scale Art Prize, QLD, Australia
2022 - Art Fluent, online exhibit “Within” and Director’s Choice Prize Boston, MA
2022 - The Holy Art Gallery, London, International online group exhibit
2022 - Rennies at Acheron Gallery, Nature works, Acheron, VIC, Australia
2022 - “Honoring the Earth Day 2022”, International online group exhibition, Diversia, Canada
2022 -” Extintion: Save the Planet 2022″, A Call for Change, online exhibition, Gallerium Art Prize
2022 - Las Laguna Art Gallery, Light and Shade Online Exhibition, Free standing abstract, CA, USA
2022 - Online Artist Space Gallery, Nature Works, USA
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