Biography

Betty Musgrove is an Australian artist currently based in Melbourne. Her work often explores how nature, nurture and family history shape identity and personal narrative. She currently works with digital and analogue printmaking processes, however she has a diverse background in drawing, soft sculpture and 3D collage. Betty is currently completing Honours in printmaking at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where she completed a Bachelor of fine arts and was awarded the 2012 artist book award. Over the past ten years she has been involved in numerous group shows, and had solo shows in Queensland and Victoria. 

In 2012 she completed a Bachelor of fine arts majoring in printmaking at RMIT and was the recipient of the 2012 artist book award.

Illustrated Talk

Identity formation through genetics, family history and the family photo collection
How do nature, nurture, genetics and generational divides shape the individual and create a sense of personal history and narrative? What role do family photographs play in shaping the individual? Utilising digital and analogue printmaking processes I uncover and dissect how my own family photographic objects have played a part in forming my identity. The bizarreness of genetic similarities, the enforcing and recording of valued milestones, and the omission of undesirable memories makes the family photographic collection so intriguing. It is both a gift and a curse in the realisation of who, what and why we are the way we are.