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Boris Cipusev is an Australian artist known for his highly detailed and colourful drawings in felt-tip pen and watercolour pencil. His work often incorporates text sourced from signage and advertising billboards.
Since 2007, Cipusev has been a regular studio artist at Arts Project Australia (APA), an organisation devoted to supporting and promoting artists with an intellectual disability. Although he received no formal training prior to commencing his studio residency there, his participation in the program at APA has provided him with access to fine art materials and the informal tuition provided by the practicing artists employed by the organisation. Shortly following the commencement of his work at APA he began exhibiting regularly in Australia and participated in his first international group exhibitions in 2014, in the Scotland and Canada (see EXHIBITIONS). In 2013, David Hurlston, Curator of Australian art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), selected a series of fifty drawings, entitled Who Next? (2010), for the landmark exhibition Melbourne Now. These works were also acquired for the collection of the NGV. Since that time Cipusev has continued to exhibit his work at the APA gallery and at La Trobe University.
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