My work is an attempt to visually express how I experience the land I am apart of. Gum trees, ocean tides, and wind directions shaped my upbringing. So naturally, as a painter, I find myself drawn to spaces where trees and waterways interact and coexist. These spaces often make me energetically connected to the world around me, at times leading to spiritual and transcendent states of mind. For me, abstraction is a language that originates beyond the physical and visually observed. Colour, line, shape, and mark making express feelings, sensations, and emotions that absorb and respond to the energy of space. Play, curiosity, spontaneity and joy take precedence over structured, rational, objective decision making in the work. Elements I feel honour and respect the loving energy of the land.
Brett Mallon is an Australian artist currently residing on the Sinixt, Ktunaxa, Sewpemec and Sylix territories of interior British Columbia, Canada.
He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking at Melbourne’s RMIT University in 2018 and is a currently undertaking an MFA at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada.
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) and the Empire of Dirt Residency (2025).