Angela Brennan

Angela Brennan is a Melbourne based painter working predominantly with lively colour and abstraction, depicting elements of an inner world. Her evolving practice consists of humming, floating forms and surfaces—a process which allows for dreamt imaginings to spill out and thrive. Imagery and colour are arranged intuitively in her work, and often immersive in scale. Her paintings transport the viewer warmly and invitingly into her universe; a state of introspection, contemplation and feeling.

Angela Brennan has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. In recent years her work has been included in the major curated exhibitions Shut Up and Paint at the National Gallery of Victoria, and the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Abstraction: Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists and she presented a solo study in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s major 2016 exhibition Painting. More Painting. She completed a PhD at MADA, Monash University in 2019, a BA from the University of Melbourne (1992), and a BA, Fine Arts, Painting, RMIT University (1981).

She has been awarded numerous overseas residencies, most recently in Rome and in Cyprus. Her work is widely represented in major public and private collections in Australia and overseas.

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Angela Brennan Tête-à-tête & Vis-à-vis | Art Gallery of Ballarat | 21.02.24

“Recently, Brennan has been listening to cosmology and astrophysics podcasts while painting and she has described the way in which the study of space – its structure, the history of
the universe – is rooted in mathematics and science despite its overarching bizarreness and ultimate unknowability. “

Angela Brennan: New Paintings Essay by Serena Bentley | 06.06.23

“To view an Angela Brennan painting is to be embraced by colour. The artist’s iconic combinations of radiating hues and soft forms are atmospheric, an effect enhanced by their often immersive scale. It is almost as if you can breathe them in. To be in their presence is to be acutely aware of your own body..”

Angela Brennan in Thames and Hudson Publication ‘Australian Abstract’ by Amber Creswell Bell | 25.05.23

‘Australian Abstract’ is a vivid survey of over forty contemporary Australian abstract painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell. An explosion of creative expression and gestural force, Australian Abstract explores the constantly..

Angela Brennan and David Fenoglio Finalist's in 2023 Archibald Prize | 06.05.23

Congratulations to Angela Brennan and David Fenoglio for being selected for the 2023 Archibald Prize. The Archibald is one of the most important and prestigious prizes in Australian art.

Angela Brennan Finalist in 2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize | 21.04.23

Angela Brennan has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. Brennan’s work Lounging in the doorway of two worlds at once (again) was selected for the exhibition by acclaimed artist, and Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Patron, Jennifer Turpin.