Sydney-based artist Gina Bruce works with a variety of media to create the haunting and ethereal images she has become known for. She has developed a keen interest in working in-situ, and enjoys returning to favourite spots time and again as a way to express the changing nature of identity and place.
Gina spends time evolving her artworks, and the themes that intrigue her recur often. She often uses observational drawings, shadow studies and line sketches to prepare her compositions ahead of time. When she approaches her canvas, however, it is quickly and decisively. Her marks are bold and purposeful, yet the overall effect is elegantly subtle and dreamily beautiful.
Gina has been in the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize for landscape, the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW for genre painting and the Portia Geach prize for portraiture, both for which she was Highly Commended. She has won the Waverley Art Prize in 2011 with her diptych painting titled “Dreamhouse 2”. Dreamhouse is a reference to Kate Grenville’s book of the same name and this work also featured in the Human Rights Defender Magazine alongside an article about refugee’s and asylum seekers.