Renata Buziak, born in Poland, moved to Australia in 1991. In 2006 Renata has completed her Bachelor of Photography with First Class Honours at Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University, Brisbane, where she also just commenced her PhD candidature.
Renata is a photographic artist, who has presented her work at a number of galleries including the Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), and Blender Gallery in Sydney. In 2005 Renata was a recipient of The Thiess Art Prize and the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Art Award, and in 2006 she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha. In 2007 Renata’s work was selected for the QCP’s 1st Photo LA Art Fair project, also she held solo exhibitions, and her work was accepted to a number of art competitions and group shows. Renata’s work is held in public and private collections.
In April 2010 Renata’s 1st publication Renata Buziak: Afterimage was launched in Brisbane. This hard cover, bilingual (English-Polish) book, with foreword by Lyle Rexer and essay by Dr. Victoria Garnons-Williams, was published by the Queensland Centre for Photography.
Photo: Kate Bernauer
Artist Statement
Nature’s vegetation offers an endless supply of organic matter for use in my artworks. I create unique images by forming alliances between a variety of plants and photographic emulsions. I call these images 'Biochromes' because the natural occurrence of de-composition on the photographic materials results in an array of colourful pigmentation arranged in complex and detailed compositions, aided by natures own creative skill.
The chemical and biological reactions that take place during the process of decay are fundamental to my image making process. The coupling of these disciplines fuses the arts with the sciences; traces the activities of the microbes; reveals the complex process of decay while addressing its metamorphic power. My work also combines my interests in macro and aerial imaging of the environment.
While my practice builds on the traditions of botanical illustrations and experimental photographic techniques (achieved by photography pioneers such a W. H. Fox Talbot), my 'fertilisation' of photographic materials, using vegetation, directly focuses on the significance of time and change through decomposition, and presents a new and unique perspective into the use of the photographic medium.Wywiad po polsku w Radio SBS Dorota Banasiak rozmawia z Renatą Buziak (2009 Interview in Polish on SBS Radio )
Wywiad po polsku w Radio SBS Anna Sadurska rozmawia z Renatą Buziak (30 Aug 2011 Interview in Polish on SBS Radio )
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- PhD Candidate, Queensland College of Art (QCA) Griffith University, Brisbane QLD
- 2006
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- Bachelor of Photography with First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art (QCA) Griffith University, Brisbane QLD
EDUCATION
- 2010
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- 'Renata Buziak: Afterimage' book launch, Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), South Bank QLD
- 2009
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- Moreton Bay Art Awards 2009, Finalist, Pine Rivers Art Gallery QLD
- Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2009, Finalist, Merrimac QLD
- Wilson HTM National Art Prize, Finalist, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
- 2008
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- New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography, Australian Museum, NSW;
This is a nationally touring exhibition throughout 2008-09. The venues: The National Science and Technology Centre Questacon, Canberra ACT, Scitech West Perth, Australian Centre for Photography Sydney NSW and RMIT Gallery Malbourne VIC.
- St Sebastian's Spring Art Exhibition & Art Prize, Winner, Yeronga, QLD
- Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Finalist, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
- 2007
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- Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Finalist, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
- The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Finalist, East Brisbane QLD
- Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2007, Finalist, Merrimac QLD
- 2006
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- The Thiess Art Prize 2006, Finalist, DELL Gallery@QCA, South Bank QLD
- Ergon Energy CQ Art Award 2006, Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD
- International Print Triennial, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow Poland
- 2005
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- The Thiess Art Prize 2005 - First Prize, Acquisitive, DELL Gallery@QCA, South Bank QLD
- Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Art Award 2005 - First Prize, Acquisitive, Brisbane QLD<>
- Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2007, Finalist, Merrimac QLD
- 2004
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- Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Award (ADFAS)- First Prize, QCA, South Bank QLD
- Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Art Award 2004 - First Prize, Acquisitive, Brisbane QLD
- Warwick Art Prize - Highly Commended, Warwick QLD
- National Tertiary Art Prize, Finalist, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
- Griffith University National Tertiary Art Prize - First Prize, Project Gallery, QCA, South Bank QLD
- 2002 - 2004
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- Griffith Awards for Academic Excellence for studies in the Bachelor of Photography
- 2011
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- Absence, Ivory 24/7 Artisan, Fortitude Valley QLD
- Renata Buziak Biochromes, The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Woollahra, Sydney NSW
- 2010
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- Marine Cove, Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Strathpine, QLD
- Biochromes, Polonia Milton QLD
- 2009
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- Afterimage, Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), South Bank QLD
- 2008
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- Decay & Renewal, Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane City QLD
- Biochromes : A Collaboration with Nature, A Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) Art Spaces Exhibition, South Bank QLD
- 2007
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- New Works by Renata Buziak, College Gallery, South Bank QLD
- Biochromes, Blender Gallery, Paddington NSW
- 2006
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- Botanica 2006 – Australian Native Plants, Artist-in-Residence - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
- 2005
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- Biochrome No 4, The Project Wall, Australian Centre of Photography (ACP), Sydney NSW
- 2004
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- Biochromes My Garden, Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), Bulimba QLD
- Gardens - Photographic Exhibition, Fat Boys Café, Fortitude Valley QLD
- 2010
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- Renata Buziak & Sharka Bosakova Shadows of Your Garden, MBFF, The Arbour, The Parklands, South Bank QLD
- Vivienne Kelly and Renata Buziak: Untamed Gardens, The Wandering Room, South Brisbane QLD
- 2007
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- Walter Stahl + Renata Buziak, Joel Fine Art, Paddington QLD
- 2012
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- Six by Six, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, QLD
- CAPTURING LIGHT – NEW DIRECTIONS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Retrospect Galleries Byron Bay, NSW
- Shared Vision… Wspólna Wizja…, Galeria Kobro, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland
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Shared Vision… Wspólna Wizja… , Galeria Zajezdnia, UMSC in Lublin, Poland
- 2011
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- Shared Vision… Wspólna Wizja…, Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland
- Voicing Concerns, Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), South Bank QLD
- Three Corners of the Con, Projection/Music/Dance, Queensland Conservatorium, South Bank
- Medium: Vinyl, Hardware Gallery, Enmore Sydney, NSW
- UNDER_SCORED, Juggler’s Art Space, Fortitude Valley QLD
- 2010
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- SNAP! Pine Rivers Regional Art Gallery QLD
- Linear Progressions Parer Place Screens and KGUV Urban Screens Network QLD, QUT Gardens Point QLD, Federation Square Melbourne VIC
- Subterranea Mundaring Arts Centre (MAC), Mundaring WA
- Sanctuary Cove Art Festival Photographic Gallery, Sanctuary Cove QLD
- Five Female Photographers, Perth WA
- Synchronicity - Contemporary Queensland Photography, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Redcliffe QLD
- The 31st Newman Arts Festival, Perth WA
- The 2010 Brisbane Senses Art, Riverside Centre, Brisbane QLD
- Inside the Collection, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland QLD
- Photo LA, International Photographic Art Exposition, Los Angeles
- 2009
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- Synchronicity - Contemporary Queensland Photography, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba QLD
- BOTANIQUE, The Japanese Garden & Richard Randall Studio, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, QLD
- ART|PLAY|SCIENCE, White Canvas Space, Fortitude Valley, QLD
- Celebrating 40 Years, Brisbane Grammar Art Show, QLD
- Class ACT, Gallery 2 on Edward, Brisbane City, Qld
- New Skin, Queensland Centre for Photography, South Brisbane, QLD
- Sharing... Wespół..., Traveling exhibition throughout Poland: Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) Warsaw; UMCS Lublin; UMCS Kazimierz Dolny, Gallery Schron Sztuki Rzeszów, Poland
- Art on Record Vol 2, APW Gallery, Long Island, NYC
- Photo LA, International Photographic Art Exposition, Los Angeles
- Rehash, Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane City, QLD
- 2008
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- Summer Moments, Art Moment Gallery, Bondi Beach, NSW
- 19 KAREN Artists + Guests, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast QLD
- Tales from the Cold Ghost II, tinygold, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast QLD
- Pure Passion, The 2008 Brisbane Grammar School Art Show, Brisbane QLD
- Memoirs: Selected Photographs from the Daryl Hewson Collection, The State Library of Queensland, South Bank QLD
- Capture, The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn VIC
- Art Brisbane, Art Fair
- Art Melbourne, Art Fair
- 2007
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- Photo LA, International Photographic Art Exposition, Los Angeles
- Look Small Think Big, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
- Gadens: Top Ten, Gadens Lawyers Annual Art Exhibition, Brisbane City QLD
- The Micro-Macro Show, College Gallery, South Bank QLD
- 2006
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- Neo Eco, Part od the Queensland Festival of Photography, Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba QLD
- Hot Pool, Queensland College of Art Griffith University, Honours Graduating Exhibition, Brisbane QLD
- Four Points of View, Queensland Centre for Photography, Bulimba QLD<>
- Extract, Metro Arts, Brisbane QLD
- An Artist’s Dozen, New Farm Art Stockroom, Brisbane QLD
- Sea of Compassion, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Pialba QLD
- 2005
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- Perception: the Daryl Hewson Photographic Collection, Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), Bulimba QLD
- Diversity, Gold Street Studios, Collingwood VIC
- HATCHED 05, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth WA
- Photographic Skin, Soapbox Gallery, Fortitude Valley QLD
- Tango, Grammar School Art Exhibition, Brisbane QLD
- The Current Crop: Revealing the Region, Brisbane Square QLD
- 2004
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- 56, Queensland College of Art (QCA) Griffith University Graduating Photography Students Exhibition, South Bank QLD
- Another Viewpoint –camera less, Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), Bulimba QLD
- Take 1, Still Photography for Film and TV, Student Group Exhibition, QCA South Bank, Brisbane QLD
- 2003
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- Superb Moon Chips Photographic Art Practice Group Exhibition, Queensland College of Art (QCA), South Bank QLD
- 2011
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- AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND GALLERY COMPENDIUM 2011, Daylight Productions, pp. 88-89.
- Boomerang Polski, Interview with K. Bajkowski (in Polish)
- Boomerang Polski, K. Bajkowski 'Biochromy Renaty Buziak' (in Polish).
- QCP Exhibition Catalogue, M. Amore, June 2011
- Artlink, S. Radok, Vol 30 No 4, pp. 70-71 Download Article as a PDF
- 2010
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Look: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980, A. Marsh, Macmillan Publishers, pp. 195, 379.
- Photo Review Australia, Renata Buziak: Me and the Microbes, S. Packer, Issue 46, Dec 2010-Feb 2011, pp. 24-30. Download Article as a PDF
- Brisbane News, 'sumofus', L. Brook, Friends in deed, Issue 796, Aug 2010
- GNN Griffith News Now, T. Preece, Renata Buziak, Movers and shakers, July 2010
- Renata Buziak: Afterimage, V. Garnons-Williams, Floribundum in extremis, QCP, April 2010
- Renata Buziak: Afterimage, L. Rexer, Foreword, QCP, April 2010
- Silvershotz, Renata Buziak, Vol 6, Ed 3, 2010, pp. 34-39
- Redland Art Gallery Collection 2003-2009, L. Martin-Chew
- Invisible Realities: Finding the hidden dimensions in art, L. Marshal, p. 68-69
- 2009
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- 2009 Queensland Centre for Photography, M. Ortega, Exhibition Catalogue, April 2009
- Sharing... Wespół… Exhibition Catalogue. 2009 p. 19
- Style Mini, M. Kropkowski, Life after Death, April 2009 p. 10
- Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2009, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2008
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- GNN Griffith News Now, T. Preece, Magic Naturally, Edition 16 Sept 2008
- MX, Phipps, J. Artist is truly getting back to nature, Aug 27, p. 4
- Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2007
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- Joel Fine Art Report, Walter Stahl + Renata Buziak, Summer 2007, p. 10
- Gadens Top 10, Exhibition Catalogue Gadens Lawyers, Queen Street Brisbane p. 4
- Brisbane News, P. Brown, Exterior motives, Oct 3-9, p. 31
- City News, Art, The Vibe, p. 32
- Westside News, Creative images made with plants, Sept 19, p. 26
- Australian Art Collector, Image: ‘Brachichyton populneus subsp trilobus’, Issue 40, April-June 2007
- Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2007 Exhibition Catalogue, Merrimac QLD
- The Courier Mail, T. Turner, Stretching the boundaries, Today, May 24, p. 59
- 2006
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- Botanica 2006 Australian Native Plants, M. Drew, The beautiful and the decomposed, Artist-in-Residence, Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt. Coot-tha QLD
- The Thiess Art Prize 2006 Exhibition Catalogue, DELL Gallery@QCA, Brisbane QLD
- Hot Pool, Exhibition Catalogue Queensland College of Art Griffith University, Fine Art and Photography Honours 2006
- Saving Daylight, Exhibition Catalogue Queensland College of Art Griffith University Graduating Photography Students
- Craft Arts International Issue 67, 2006, p. 84
- Australian Art Review, A. Lopez, Artists of Tomorrow, Issue 10, March-June 2006, p. 73
- Four Points of View Exhibition Catalogue, V. Rigney, Botanica Wanderlands, QCP, QLD
- The Courier Mail, R. Sorensen, Botany of the beautiful, April 1-2, 200, p. 46
- Griffith Gazette, D. Marshall, 2005 Thiess Art Prize, Issue 1, 2006, p. 7
- 2005
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- The Courier Mail, R. Sorensen, Prize has backyard focus, BAM, Feb 4-5, 2006, p. 7
- The Thiess Art Prize 2005 Catalogue, DELL Gallery, QCA, Brisbane, QLD
Craft Arts International Issue 64, 2005, p. 72
- Diversity Exhibition Catalogue, The Institute of Photographic Technology Inc., Melbourne VIC
- HATCHED 05 Catalogue, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, WA
- Xpress Magazine, eye 4: arts, Grade Expectations, 2nd June 2005, WA
- Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2005 Exhibition Catalogue, Merrimac QLD
- BEMAC NEWS, P. Davies, Visual Artist Profile, Issue 2, 2005, pp 8-9, QLD
- 2004
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- 56, Queensland College of Art Griffith University Graduating Photography Students Exhibition Catalogue
- Photofile #73: Summer 2005, Exhibition Review, p. 77
- Colour Box, Dawn Issue, QCA, Brisbane QLD
- Colour Box, Old School Issue, QCA, Brisbane QLD
- 2005 Refugee Cultural Calendar, Brisbane Ethnic Music and Art Centre Inc., Brisbane QLD
- Griffith Gazette, B. Layton, Brass and biochromes combine for charity, Vol 19 No. 8, Summer 2004/2005, p. 5
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
COLLECTIONS
- Thiess Pty Ltd
- Redland Gallery
- Queensland Centre for Photography
- Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
- Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
- Southbank Corporation
- Sunsuper
- Gadens Lawyers
- Mater Hospital
- The Americas Biennial Exhibition Archive
- UMCS, Poland
- Private Collections
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) (Management Board Member)
- The Institute of Photographic Technology (IPT)
- The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
- Australian Network of Art and Technology (ANAT)
- Golden Key International Honour Society(GK)
