Bud Brannigan is the Director of Bud Brannigan Architects in Brisbane, with project experience both locally and in regional areas of Queensland and New South Wales. The practice has been honoured with several awards from the Australian Institute of Architects, most notably the national Robin Boyd Award for residential architecture in 1994. In 2007 Bud received a Churchill Fellowship to study regional museums in the USA, and in 2011 the practice was shortlisted to design the new Australian pavilion for the Venice Biennale. More recently, Bud Brannigan Architects completed the Margaret Olley Art Centre at the Tweed Regional Gallery, which opened in March 2014.