Keith Burt

Keith Burt is an award-winning painter and sculptor who creates from his studio in Brisbane, Australia. He has been shortlisted for multiple awards including the Archibald Prize on several occasions, and in 2023 was also a finalist for the Wynne Prize. In 2020, Burt was awarded the Brisbane Portrait Prize for his double portrait Urban Artists and recently, his bronze sculpture was highly commended by the judges in the McLelland Gallery and Sculpture Park inaugural Maquette Award.

As a painter, Burt describes his painted subjects with restrained brushstrokes. Confident daubs of paint create solid
forms, capturing topographies of objects and people alike. Oscillating between still life, portraiture and landscape, Burt’s limited palette and spare paint application emphasises the beauty of simplicity, highlighting the quieter moments of existence.

Burt’s sculpted works are hand modelled to emphasise form. Textured figures are built to create a synchronicity between form and weight. Burt takes a classical genre to new heights by adding paint to the surfaces of his bronze works, adding a contemporary edge to an age-old medium.

AVAILABLE WORKS

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KEITH BURT
born 1969, lives Brisbane

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025            Ensemble, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2023            Variations, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2021            Motionless, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2019            Nonfiction, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2018            Impermanence, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2017            Look, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

        Peninsula, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2016            Headland, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2015            Endure, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2014            Bottleneck, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2013            Late Change, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2012            Repose, Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane

2011            The Sitter, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2010            In Roads, Metro Arts, Brisbane

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025            Sydney Contemporary, presented by Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney

                      Painting life: Margaret Olley and works from the collection, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

2024-25      A Dictionary for Painting: Margaret Olley, Robert Malherbe, Keith Burt, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

2024            Still life, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2023-24     Rearranged: Art of the Flower, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane

2021            Group show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2018            First Impressions: The Valley of Skies, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2015            15 Artists, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe, QLD

 

AWARDS EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES

2025            Highly Commended, McLelland Maquette Award, McLelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Mornington

                      Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane

2024            Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane

        Finalist, Darling Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

                      Finalist ,The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

        Artist in Residence, UAP Rock Tavern Foundry, New York

2023            Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

        Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2022            Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2021            Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2020            Winner, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Powerhouse, Brisbane

2019            Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

        Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Powerhouse, Brisbane

2017            Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

        Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane

2015            Finalist, St Andrews War Memorial Hospital Anzac Art Prize, Brisbane

2013            Finalist, Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

        Finalist, Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane

2012            Finalist, Cricket Art Prize, Bradman Museum International Hall of Fame, Sydney

2011            Winner, The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing, Jugglers Art Space Inc, Brisbane

Finalist, The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith
University Art Museum, Brisbane

2010            Finalist, The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing, Jugglers Art Space Inc, Brisbane

2010            Finalist, The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane

 COMMISSIONS

2020            Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane

2017            Suite of 9 works for Spicers Potts Point, Sydney

2013            Portrait of AMA President Queensland

2010            Landscape commission, Mater Hospital, Brisbane

 PUBLICATIONS

2020             Keith Burt, Observation Point, Portrait 64, Summer 2019/20

2021             Amber Creswell-Bell, Still Life, Thames & Hudson

2021            Phil Brown, Keith Burt boot and all, Courier Mail, 2 March

2010            Christopher Allen, Heads will roll at Archibald Prize, The Australian, 18 March

 COLLECTIONS

Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane