News & Artwork Of Brett Ashby

Redemption

Ashby with Brandon Novak, the proud founder of seven sober-living homes known as Novak’s House and two addiction treatment centres, Redemption Addiction Treatment.

Live Portrait

‘Redemption’ with Brandon Novak, 900 x 1800mm, 1mm cold steel, 8mm rebar, oil. From Ashby’s collectors series ‘Weld and Skate’ the art observes the change found in a subject after finding grace. ‘Weld and Skate’ speaks to all that ‘Roll’ Worldwide.

Skate & Weld

Ashby is recognisable for his unique methods of practice employing a skateboard or surfboard as a tool to paint aura. His work is linked through a poetic and intuitive sensitivity to the expressive potential of space, light, colour and context.

Power Tools

Flow can be defined as a psychological experience where one is performing an activity and is fully immersed in an energized focus. In some professions, such as in the case of athletes and musicians, flow is also known as “in the zone”.

While living in America in 2009, Ashby created, among other works, a notable portrait of Barack Obama, which became sought after by collectors at Art Basel in Miami.

Understanding Life & Death

Cube Art Fair, 2022. Frequency performance, canvas, acrylic, HD video / sound 5-7min short film, qr code.1800 x 1800mm, x 3 canvas panels, mixed media public artwork.

Surf & paint

Cube Art Fair, New York, 18th May, 2022. 100 billboards across Manhattan, Soho, Chelsea Art Gallery District, Meatpacking, Times Square, Wall Street, Upper East Side etc. Ashby will appear across NewYork every 200 seconds.

Large format video

“Understanding Life and Death” depicting a whale animal painting exhibiting in New York, for Cube Art Fair, across 100 billboards and screening Ashby’s 2min short film at the 32 Story high, American Eagle Times Square, 1551 Broadway, NY.

Live Art

A three panel canvas artwork exploring light and love painted on the water at depth, while surfing a kayak. “It documents cranial fluid motion in synchronicity, offering a healing through intention setting for the blue whale’s energetic field.

Only A Drummer Knows The Feeling

Choice allows for invention and energy connected us as a choice. 'Richie' is a film about energy and the connection between artist and subject. The portrait of a musician- Richie

Skate & paint

Everything is energy, swirling around us, through us, changing form. We absorb it, merge with it and release it. It combines and collides with itself. Clips feature in Ashby's internationally awarded experimental film 'The One I Love'.

Short Film

I am in my pure state immersed in it, in the moment when the music fills a room and I become the energy in the space, I express that energy through my performance, I’m lost in the moment, riding the energy.” Richard Lewis

Live Art

Australia’s much-loved artist, Brett Ashby explores his contemporary artistic journey of art therapy through twelve years of commissioned public and performance artwork paintings, recognising and surviving cancer along the way.

Hope Mural

The Artist-in-Residence programme brings a different dimension to Visual Arts classes at Melbourne Grammar School. While all Visual Arts teachers are also practicing artists in their own right, the injection of new ideas increases the likelihood that students will discover a visual language that particularly resonates with them.

Brett Ashby is an Australian contemporary artist known for collectible fine art and expressive figurative painting. His works explore themes of culture, identity and performance through bold chakra-inspired colour and a distinctive contemporary visual language. Ashby’s rare and evolving body of work is increasingly followed by collectors seeking mid career - contemporary artists and investment-grade artwork.