Filippa Buttitta | Artist
Filippa Buttitta
Phone: +61 401 652 553
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25.01.2022 Drawing while I await news of critical medical results. This work is a self portrait and portrays the anxiety I felt early this year before entering an operating theatre to remove an aggressive tumor out of my brain. Title: ‘Anxiety Prior to Brain Surgery’, drawing on paper, Filippa Buttitta 2020. Work in progress...
24.01.2022 ‘Unforeseeable’, Filippa Buttitta, 2020. A work I am currently experimenting with as part of my: ‘Surprisingly a Brain Tumour’ series.
22.01.2022 Received this beautiful catalogue this week thanks to The Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. It contains images of the works selected for the 2020 Percival Portrait Prize.
20.01.2022 2020 has brought about misfortunes and uncertainty about the future, but this is something to look forward to:
18.01.2022 Self Portrait with Hospice Mask, oil on canvas, Filippa Buttitta 2020.
12.01.2022 To all my wonderful friends who I follow and adore on Instagram and FB. I just want to apologise for not liking or commenting on your posts or comments to my posts as the way I have in the past. Since my 2nd brain surgery I have had trouble reading and deciphering text. This is a condition called Alexis Without Graphia. I’m hoping that this condition is only temporary, possibly due to post op brain swelling. ... So if I miss out on your posts and don’t like or comment please keep this in mind and don’t be offended. It is because I can’t read at the moment.
11.01.2022 My Radiotherapy mask. I see it as a sculptural work of art. It is a self portrait.
10.01.2022 Back on my feet again after 2nd brain tumour debunking operation performed by Dr Charlie Teo. My first operation was in January 2020. I had 2 tumours removed this time instead of one and I am ready to go back studio home and continue work on ‘Survival a Brain Tumour’.
10.01.2022 Revealing my studio buddy ‘Sky’ who keeps me company in the studio for hours. He also keeps my mind off the negative and difficult challenges I know I may be facing ahead.
09.01.2022 I am not an abstract artist. I consider myself a realist artist with my own unique way of painting what I see. I am however struggling with my eye sight due to battling brain cancer and what 2 surgeries have done to me. While I can still reasonably paint the way I’ve always known since childhood, I am compelled to deal with the unfortunate. It is ironic. I have spent a life time trying to master my own style and now I have to undo the skills I’ve developed. ... From mastering realism I am now compelled to master abstraction. While I’ve spent my life battling the difficulties of painting I am now compelled to battle what a brain tumour is doing to my eye sight. I might be doing exactly what Pablo Picasso once said: It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. A third surgery would have hurried the abstraction up. In the meantime, it’s back to battling the struggle to paint like never before.
06.01.2022 Last weekend to visit The Portia Geach Memorial Award exhibition at the SH Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, Sydney. With artist friend Beverley Davies and some of my favourite works in the show...
02.01.2022 In January this year I was diagnosed with a very aggressive GBM4 brain cancer. I had the menace removed with surgery, attacked sigh Radiotherapy and then lost nearly all of my long hair and was given 6 months of chemotherapy. Last week not one but 2 tumours decided to return me a visit. After much research my choice was to undergo a second surgery over night. I’m doing quit well after the surgery and ready to fight for my life again to continue pursuing all the things I usually do.
02.01.2022 Night painting a portrait of myself with my Radiotherapy mask...
02.01.2022 Night painting...
