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M Bozzec
Emotional Baggage
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Coloured pencil on paper, 22 x 42 cm, 2025
M Bozzec’s artistic practice focuses on drawing & the use of language.
Their work explores the political & the personal, investigating the poetic intersection between words & images.
Found phrases & found images, gleaned from diverse sources, are the starting point for M Bozzec’s drawings.
The processes of reading, writing, collecting, & memory inform their work.
Born in Sydney, 1973, & residing in Leura since 2018, M Bozzec studied at the National Art School,1992 – 1994 (Diploma of Fine Arts) & UNSW College of Fine Arts, 1996 – 1999 (Bachelor of Art Education).
Exhibiting regularly in group & solo exhibitions since 1998, M Bozzec has been a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2003, 2006, 2012, & 2019, the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 & 2023, & the Adeleide Perry Drawing Prize in 2011, 2014, 2023, & 2026.
M Bozzec is represented by Mais Wright Artists Projects, East Sydney.
Their work explores the political & the personal, investigating the poetic intersection between words & images.
Found phrases & found images, gleaned from diverse sources, are the starting point for M Bozzec’s drawings.
The processes of reading, writing, collecting, & memory inform their work.
Born in Sydney, 1973, & residing in Leura since 2018, M Bozzec studied at the National Art School,1992 – 1994 (Diploma of Fine Arts) & UNSW College of Fine Arts, 1996 – 1999 (Bachelor of Art Education).
Exhibiting regularly in group & solo exhibitions since 1998, M Bozzec has been a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2003, 2006, 2012, & 2019, the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 & 2023, & the Adeleide Perry Drawing Prize in 2011, 2014, 2023, & 2026.
M Bozzec is represented by Mais Wright Artists Projects, East Sydney.
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