Belle Bassin

Bassin received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing, from the Victorian College of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include, ‘Disruptive Peach’, Grantpirrie, Sydney, and Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2010; ‘Balancing the Tides’, Twenty by Thirty, Melbourne, 2009, ‘Vesica Pisces’, Court House Arts, Geelong, 2009;  ‘Nibiru’, WestSpace, Melbourne 2008. Group Shows include, ‘Gertrude Studio Artists’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2009; ‘The Living Room’, Blindside, Melbourne 2009; Dark Liaisons, 24HRArt, Darwin, 2009; Fleshless Resurrection, Rear View, Melbourne; 2009;  Melbourne Connection, Museo de la Ciudad de Leon, Mexico, 2009; ‘Aliens Can Smell Our Blood’, Block Projects, Melbourne, 2008;  ‘Devolution’, WestSpace and The University of Southern Queensland, 2008;‘Brothers and Sisters of the Pale Forest’, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2008; ‘Wallara Travelling Scholarship’, Margaret Lawrence VCA Gallery, 2007; ‘Do it’, Margaret Lawrence VCA Gallery, 2007; ‘Yes to circumcision’, VCA Student Gallery, 2006;   Portrait of Salote Tawale, Seventh Gallery, 2006, ‘Homesick for another galaxy’, Platform2, 2006.  She was the recipient of the Wallara Travelling scholarship, Westspace Award and George Hicks Award in 2007.  Bassin’s work is in the collection of the Monash University Museum of Art and private collections.  She is represented by ‘Fehily Contemporary’, Melbourne.