Brett Mallon

Born Australia. Lives Canada.

Australian artist Brett Mallon grew up in Quandamooka country (The Redlands), on the outskirts of Meanjin (Brisbane), QLD. He currently resides on the Sinixt, Ktunaxa, Secwepemc and Sylix Okanagan territories of interior British Columbia, Canada. His practice is grounded in observation and explores painting, connection, spirituality, and identity.

I am an Australian painter and printmaker who grew up on Quandamooka country, QLD and currently find myself on the Sinixt, Ktunaxa, Sylix Okanagan, and Secwepemc territories of interior British Columbia, Canada.

 

I primarily paint outside and draw inspiration from the landscape I find myself in. My main interest is focused on how I can connect to the energy that is within me and around me while painting. Traditional Chinese Medicine and the concept of Qi is important to my practice as I use shape, colour and composition to express how, and what I feel when painting in the landscape.

— Brett Mallon

Brett has consistently exhibited in Australia and Canada since completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking at Melbourne’s RMIT University in 2018. Currently, he is doing his MFA at Emily Carr University, Vancouver. His work can be found in collections at Melbourne’s RMIT University, Western Australia’s Curtain University, Canberra’s National Art School and Queensland’s USQ Toowoomba. He has been the recipient of the Arts Law Pro Bono Print Commission (2018), winner of the ‘Open Bite’ Queenscliff Gallery Graduate Award (2018), finalist in the Peebles Print Prize (2019) and the Brisbane Portrait Prize, Salon Des Refuses (2020, 2022, 2024). As well as attending the NG Art Creative Residency in Provence France (2022).