Cynthia Breusch

Born in Brisbane in 1959, Cynthia now lives and works in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. She has a Diploma in Visual Communication from the Queensland College of Art. 

Since graduating in 1979 she has held more than 25 solo exhibitions around Australia, in Tokyo, and has exhibited regularly in the US since 2002.  In 2004 her first international solo exhibition was held in California and her work was featured on the cover of a major Californian magazine.

Her paintings and drawings are held in public collections including the Rockhampton Art Gallery and Ipswich City Council in Queensland, corporate collections including BHP Billiton, Newscorp, the University of Qld Press, and the Brisbane Tattersall's Club, as well as private collections in Australia, NZ, Singapore, USA, UK, France, Germany, and the United Emirates.

Travel remains a continuing passion and inspiration for Cynthia's work, and she has travelled extensively in Europe, the UK, US, Central America, and the South Pacific.

"My figure narratives hint at memory, secrets, longing, emotional thresholds.  I want my protagonists to occupy psychological spaces more than a specific 'place', and I think of them as dream-keepers, transitioners, remakers. I'm interested in states of reverie, time as a still continuum - where 'past and future are gathered'. I'm always after an atmosphere of 'something else', the transcendent or the presence of an absence, a dream-like quality. "

Cynthia Breusch