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 both 2026 and 2023 he was a finalist for the Wynne Prize. In 2026, Burt was awarded the Stanthorpe Art Prize for his sculpture Inquiet, and in 2020, he was awarded the Brisbane Portrait Prize for his double portrait Urban Artists. 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.

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KEITH BURT
1969 Born in Sydney, lives and works in Brisbane

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — 'Tableau', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
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
2017 — '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
2025 — '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
2026 — Winner, Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Stanthorpe
2026 — Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2025 — Highly Commended, McLelland Maquette Award, McLelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Mornington
2025 — Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
2025 — Finalist, Maquette Sculpture Award, McClelland Gallery, Melbourne
2024 — Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
2024 — Finalist, Darling Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2024 — Finalist, The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
2024 — Artist in Residence, UAP Rock Tavern Foundry, New York
2023 — Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2023 — 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
2019 — Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Powerhouse, Brisbane
2017 — Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2017 — 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
2013 — 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
2011 — 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