Meg 2012 egg tempera emulsion on canvas 25 x 25 cm
This painting has been selected to hang in the 2012 A.M.E. Bale Art Prize held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria.
Show opens 5th Dec and runs until 16th Dec 2012.
Selected for 2012 EMSLA
Nesting Options 2012 301 x 90 cm oil on canvas
Eutick Memorial Still Life Awards 2012 held at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery 16th November 2012 – 12th January 2013
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
Vintage Fridge Magnets and Swizzle Sticks (107 x 61 cm oil on canvas) has been shortlisted for the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2011 to be held at the Caloundra Regional Gallery from the 6th July-11th September, 2011.
Selections
Prometheus Art Awards and Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards have selected the works Bugs and Silverware Diptych and Charm is Deceitful, Beauty is Fleeting (respectively) to hang in their exhibitions this year.
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.