The gallery is pleased to present Angela Brennan’s debut exhibition New Paintings on display between 13 June – 1 July 2023. Brennan’s paintings lies predominantly with lively colour and abstraction, depicting elements of an inner world. The artists’ evolving practice consists of humming, floating forms and surfaces—a process which allows for dreamt imaginings to spill out and thrive.
Essay writer Serena Bentley states, “To view an Angela Brennan painting is to be embraced by colour. The artist’s iconic combinations of radiating hues and soft forms are atmospheric, an effect enhanced by their often immersive scale. It is almost as if you can breathe them in. To be in their presence is to be acutely aware of your own body in relation to the work and a lively invitation to the eye and, indeed, the heart. For Brennan’s world is deeply shaped by emotion and intuition.”
Angela Brennan is a Melbourne based painter and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. In recent years her work has been included in the major curated exhibitions Shut Up and Paint at the National Gallery of Victoria, and the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Abstraction: Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists and she presented a solo study in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s major 2016 exhibition Painting. More Painting. She completed a PhD at MADA, Monash University in 2019, a BA from the University of Melbourne (1992), and a BA, Fine Arts, Painting, RMIT University (1981). She has been awarded numerous overseas residencies, most recently in Rome and in Cyprus. Her work is widely represented in major public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Image: Black hole and colours from the art shop (1), 2023, oil on linen, 105.5 x 75.5cm.
