Artist Bio: Brenton Mitchell |
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Currently resides in Adelaide, South Australia Website: www.brentonmitchell.com.au Also at https://bluethumb.com.au/brenton-mitchell Visual art practice My artwork covers a variety of styes and techniques and I am as comfortable with more conceptual work as I am with the decorative and design aspects of visual art. I am currently concerned with personal meanings and tensions between human scale values and earth scales. I like to frame an idea like a ‘cartoon’ with simple elements in a unique conflict. My art also explores the conceptual boundaries of different disciplines, the representation of spatial concepts and views of the landscape, relationships of scale and the symbology of numbers. Contemporary design art A subset of my practice is connected with another branch of my work experience as a production artist. Although I often attempt to keep the conceptual work and the more decorative work separate, at times the visual design aspects of artwork in the contemporary design and decor frame can be a point from where where my more conceptual work draws strong organising principles. When these overlap in a meaningful way I tend to let them cross-pollinate each other. Although I like to employ manual means to create art I am moving toward combining more digital techniques to further expand the possibilities of design. 2023 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize - FINALIST: Showing from Aug 4th to 27th 2023 2017 Stencil Art Prize - FINALIST: Stencil Art Prize touring exhibition, NSW and QLD, Australia |