Aaron Butt
Visual Artist
CV
Education
2017 - Master of Fine Art (Research), QUT
2014 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) First Class, QUT
2013 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) with Distinction, QUT
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - NEAR ENOUGH (IS GOOD ENOUGH) Northern Rivers Community Art Gallery
2017 -NEAR ENOUGH (IS GOOD ENOUGH) II TBA
2024 - The Coast as a Limit (Keith, Murwillumbah)
2023 - Presentness is Grace (The Hub Gallery, Caboolture)
2017 - Artist of the Month (Bribie Island Community Arts Centre)
2021 - Pneumatophores (Jan Manton Gallery)
2020 - Foreign Language (Jan Manton Gallery)
2019 - Various Objects (Jan Manton Art Gallery)
2018 - Geen Eenden I (Maverick Hair and Art Space)
2018 - Liberté (Jan Manton Art Gallery)
2017 - Missed Encounter II (Frank Moran Gallery)
2017 - River Derwent, (Facing MONA) (The Hub Gallery, Caboolture)
2017 - River Derwent, MONA (Jan Manton Art Gallery)
2017 - Missed Encounter III (Maverick Hair and Art Space)
2016 - Pursuit of the Real (Pine Rivers Regional Art Gallery, Window Gallery)
2015 - Kate as Queen Nefertiti (Jan Manton Art Gallery)
2015 - Missed Encounter (Bus Projects)
2015 - Rapture (Hub Gallery, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery)
Group Exhibitions
2025 - Connections (Bribie Island Community Arts Centre)
2024 - Decades: 80 Years of Collecting (QUT Art Museum)
2022 - Moreton Bay Region Art Prize (Pine Rivers Art Gallery)
2023 - Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Exhibition (Mitchell Fine Art)
2023 - Group Exhibition (Bribie Island Bowls Club)
2023 - TONDI ( ) TONDO (Kepk Gallery)
2023 - The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Exhibition (Judith Wright Arts Centre)
2023 - Keith Christmas Show (The Field @ Keith Murwillumbah)
2023 - Echo (Side Gallery)
2023 - Connections (Bribie Island Community Arts Centre)
2023 - Matthew Flinders Art Prize (Bribie Island Community Arts Centre)
2022 - After Fairweather (Caboolture Regional Art Gallery)
2022 - Moreton Bay Region Art Prize (Pine Rivers Art Gallery)
2022 - Queensland Regional Art Awards (Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award finalist)
2022 - Habitat (Mist Gallery)
2022 -4th Qld Artists Showcase (Queensland Artists)
2021 - Look At/Look Through (BSA Project Space)
2021 - A Brisbane Collecting Family, 1980 - 2020 (The Brisbane Club)
2021 - The Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award (Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum)
2021 - Just Add Water (Bribie Island Community Art Centre)
2020 - Boiling Point Bushfire Relief Fundraiser Exhibition (The Third Quarter Gallery)
2019 - The Jeffery Humphreys Collection (The Brisbane Club)
2018 - Sunshine Coast Art Prize (Caloundra Regional Gallery)
2018 - First Impressions: Valley of Skies (Jan Manton Art)
2017 - Sunshine Coast Art Prize (Caloundra Regional Gallery)
2017 - 6th Artists’ Books + Multiples Fair (Griffith University)
2017 - Moreton Bay Region Art Awards (Strathpine Community Centre)
2014 - Lethbridge 10 000 (Lethbridge Gallery)
2017 - In Residence ARI Instagram Takeover (Online)
2016 - The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize (QUT Art Museum)
2016 - Gather Awards (St. Ita's Primary School)
2016 - Clayton Utz Art Award (Clayton Utz)
2016 - Cream of the Crop (Queensland Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition)
2016 - Tender Turf (Post Datum Collective)
2016 - Noosa Art Awards (Noosa Regional Gallery)
2016 - Moreton Bay Region Art Awards (Strathpine Community Centre)
2015 - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Semi-Finals (Moran Art Prizes)
2015 - Peace and Quiet (State Library of Queensland)
2015 - Moreton Bay Region Art Awards (Strathpine Community Centre)
2015 - Queensland Regional Art Awards Finals (Flying Arts Alliance)
2014 - Lethbridge 10 000 (Lethbridge Gallery)
2014 - Sunshine Coast New Media Art Prize (Caloundra Regional Gallery)
2014 - Excerpts (The Block Gallery, QUT)
2014 - Everything All At Once (H Block, QUT)
2014 - Translink Extended loan (Translink Centre)
2014 - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Semi-Finals (Moran Art Prizes)
2014 - Connections Between (H Block, QUT)
2014 - Tools of the Trade (Jugglers Art Space)
2014 - Queensland Regional Art Awards Finals (Flying Arts Alliance)
2014 - Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing (Jugglers Art Space)
2014 - Lethbridge 10 000 (Lethbridge Gallery)
2014 - Storage Space (The Hold Artspace)
2014 - Moreton Bay Region Art Awards (Strathpine Community Centre)
2014 - SHAPE of Things to Come: (DIS)CONNECT (The Block Gallery, QUT)
2014 - New World City (The Hold Artspace)
2013 - Homesick (Metro Arts, Warehouse Space)
2013 - Thirteen (H Block, QUT)
2012 - Chimera (The Block Gallery, QUT)
2012 - Rattus Rattus (Jugglers Art Space)
2012 - Bari Festival Opening (H Block, QUT)
2011 - Inspiral (Metro Arts, Warehouse Space)
Awards
2024 - First Prize, Moreton Bay Art Prize
2018 - Highly Commended, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2017 - Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize
2016 - Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
2015 - Merit Award, Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
2015 - Brian Tucker Young Artist Development Award
2015 - Maroochydore Music and Visual Art Festival New Media Public Art Mentorship
2014 - The Hild Chenhall Memorial Scholarship
2014 - QUT Professional Practice Award
2014 - NAVA Ignition Prize
2014 - University Medal
Writing
2018 - Work in the art of Gosia Wlodarczak, Dylan Jones and Chris Bennie (BNE Art Writer's program)
2018 - First Impressions: Valley of Skies Essay (co-written with Lee Wilkes)
2017 - Breaking boundaries with Artwork in a Box: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan (QUT No Walls Blog)
2017 - Less Than: Art and Reductionism Exhibition Review (QUT Art Museum for BNE Art Writer's program)
2017 - Sit. Pose. Snap (Museum of Brisbane for BNE Art Writer's program)
2017 - In Residence ARI Interview, August Instagram Takeover (In Residence ARI)
2017 - River Derwent, MONA Catalogue Statement (Jan Manton Art Gallery)
2016 - Judith Kentish and Hew Chee Fong Reflection (Caboolture Regional Art Gallery for BNE Art)
2016 - Ian Fairweather: A Pursuit of the Real (Pine Rivers Regional Art Gallery, Window Gallery)
2015 - Discovery (Artist Profile Magazine, Issue 30)
2015 - Kate as Queen Nefertiti Catalogue Essay (Jan Manton Art Gallery)
Curatorial
2021 - Look At/Look Through (BSA Project Space)
Articles
Brown, Phil. 2024. Landscape art award honouring arts visionary takes flight. Inreview/Inqueensland
See, Pamela. 2022. Exhibition Review: After Fairweather. ARTS hub.
Sawyer, Hamish. 2022. After Fairweather Catalogue Essay. Caboolture Regional Art Gallery.
Sawyer, Hamish. 2020. Foreign Language Catalogue Essay. Jan Manton Gallery: issuu.
Residencies
Stichting Open Ateliers Zuid-Oost, January 2019
Grants
Individuals Fund (Arts Queensland) for Stichting Open Ateliers Zuid-Oost Residency
Conferences
2016 - WiP Conference: On the Edge (University of Queensland)
ACUADS: Adaptation (Queensland University of Technology)
Collections
QUT Art Museum
City of Moreton Bay
Flying Arts Alliance
Queensland Children's Hospital
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Private Collections in Brisbane and Sunshine Coast