Nesting Options has been shortlisted for the 2013 SCAP, the 4th time to be selected into this exhibition of approximately 40 artists from around Australia. The exhibition opens 21st August and runs until 13th October at the Caloundra Regional Gallery, Qld.
Finalist in the 2012 A.M.E. Bale Art Prize
Selected for 2012 EMSLA
Self Portrait selection
A Self Portrait entitled Facing Myself has been selected for the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award held at Grafton Regional Gallery. The exhibition opens on the 26th October 2012 and then tours Regional and Metropolitan galleries throughout 2013-2014. It is an investigation of myself in charcoal on paper, and how I now have to see the world, through my glasses or over them.
selected for the Lethbridge 10 000 small works award
Collections Yellow 25 x 25 cm oil on canvas has been shortlisted for the Lethbridge Gallery 10 000 small works award.
Opening night Sat 16th June 136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane.
view my work here
http://www.brettlethbridge.com/10000finalists.php?finalist_year=2012
selected for Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Selections
Selected for The Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
This work has been shortlisted for the 2010 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize. The exhibition opens 4th December at the Gold Coast Art Gallery.
Plastic Dolls Shoes and Novelty Key ring 102 x102 cm oil on canvas
I have been wanting to do a painting using these cast off Barbie/ Brats doll shoes and have combined them with a circa 1970’s kitsch key ring of an African female child.
As always I find objects can be quietly powerful containers. Thoughts about child slavery and human trafficking become the disturbing contents. The abhorrent trade in human lives is a growing industry in our world.
I’ve read that every 26 seconds a child is sold or lured into sexual slavery. In the West we give our young girls highly sexualised toy dolls to play with, yet in so many nations children have no shoes and are lured or forced into the slave trade.
So often things that seem worthless and abject are at the same time, precious and valuable and still have the quiet power to contain our memories, reflect our emotions and become metaphors for important issues.