BLAISE BIRT

Blaise is an emerging artist based in Tasmania, Australia.

With a rebel heart and a strong affinity for alternative subcultures, Blaise creates unique pieces of art that capture the eye and subvert expectations. 

Drawing from their rich and complex personal history, their paintings are rituals imbued with love, rage, grief and healing. Telling stories of childhood trauma and abuse, friendship, love and loss, modern day survival and navigating the world as a queer, disabled and mentally ill creative who has spent most of their life tight-walking the poverty line. 

Blaise is introspective, obsessive and endlessly curious. With an interest in the occult, a philosophical outlook and a fascination with language, communication and word play - there is often more to their art than meets the eye. Their dark proclivities, childlike wonder, bratty cheek and wicked sense of humour leak into their work like a virus. While a more mature, sensual energy dominates their figure paintings in particular.

Blaise is a creative who works across a range of mediums and disciplines including visual art, music and creative writing. Due to their chaotic nature and need for freedom to play, Blaise does not take commissions. For them, art is a healing ritual - a creative outlet and cathartic release for pent up emotions, a reconfiguration of memory as it is lost and found again, an outward expression of the fragmented self and an observation of the world as seen from their point of view.

Working across a number of styles and themes, Blaise’s creativity cannot be contained in a neat and tidy box. They are messy, loud, mischievous and young at heart - forever learning and evolving as a person and an artist.

“My art practice is all about getting to know myself. It is a sacred and personal experience where I explore the deepest crevasses of my psyche, process unhealed trauma and transmute and release stagnant energy. It’s an act of self-love, self-reflection and self-preservation. I am my own muse on purpose. I am many things and my art reflects this.” -Blaise