Visual Artists
Ray Besserdin
Melbourne based artist Ray Besserdin is world acclaimed for his uniquely innovated artworks sculptured in paper. His works hang in both private and corporate collections in Manhattan, Tokyo, London, Munich, Copenhagen, Monaco, New Zealand and throughout Australia. He has been recognised with over 35 awards and prizes both internationally and nationally. He has been a gallery owner, artist in residence, adjudicator and taught his techniques both in Australia and overseas to professional artists. Ray began his creativity at a very…
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Melbourne based artist Ray Besserdin is world acclaimed for his uniquely innovated artworks sculptured in paper.
His works hang in both private and corporate collections in Manhattan, Tokyo, London, Munich, Copenhagen, Monaco, New Zealand and throughout Australia.
He has been recognised with over 35 awards and prizes both internationally and nationally. He has been a gallery owner, artist in residence, adjudicator and taught his techniques both in Australia and overseas to professional artists.
Ray began his creativity at a very early age under the encouragement of his artist parents who were both active members of the distinguished Victorian Artist Society. In Ray’s own words, “As a child I looked at a blank piece of paper and saw a world of creative opportunity. Nothing has changed”.
He terms his signature style “Impressionist Sculptured Paper” which is much like painting using a palette of torn papers in bas-relief form, to capture an impression and feeling of life without needing realism, like the painting style of that namesake.
The one condition is that the nature of the medium, the paper, must always be evidenced: highlighted for the viewers to appreciate. Since innovating his technique over 37 years ago, Ray has pushed the possibilities with his beloved medium from miniature to gigantic works exceeding 6m x 4m like the Federation sculptures for NT Government; from ultra-realistic to freestyle abstract, from wall mounted to cable suspended and freestanding.
While nature is his favourite subject, he loves portraiture, technically demanding pieces and compositions that express things meaningful such as his gold award winning 2m x 3m triptych called Flowing Synthesis commissioned by Macquarie Bank, or the 3m x 4m Mother’s Heart for Water Gardens Shopping Centre on behalf of Queensland Investment Corporation.
Some recent achievements include commissions by Hartmann’s Jewellers, Copenhagen for Qantas Magazine; two works for the head offices of Spicers Paper /KPP in Australia and Tokyo; an exhibition at Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, by invitation of Mona Youseff Gallery, Canada; one gold, two silver and a bronze medal at the Professional Artist Concours of Mondial Art Academia, France; a double finalist selection in the Stanthorpe Art Prize and winning the People’s Choice Award in the National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
ray@papersculptureartist.com for more information. www.papersculptureartist.com