Brendon Mogg (Born 1975) is a successful Sydney painter with numerous solo exhibitions whose paintings are held in private and corporate collections in Spain, Australia and England. Mogg’s highly textural paintings have a sensuous, tactile quality which evocatively capture the vibrancy and development of Sydney in high-key slightly blended palettes. He works in a range of styles to create large format, abstract paintings in oil on canvas. Using a technique perfected over the last 20 years, Mogg builds up thick layers of oil paint. His latest series are light and airy in soft tones ideal for a contemporary, white interior.

Artist Statement As I questioned the style that I desired to produce, many thoughts and creative methods were explored to create such a proud collection of my recent work.

I wanted to continue to study the landscape and what it visually conveyed to me over many months of inspiring daily journeys. For me this is prominent amongst the rewarding aspects of this project.

The need to illustrate the various time changes throughout the day and to embrace vital themes, compositions such as a blank blue sky, with its cluttered mixture of street signs, billboards and the everyday movement in the foreground, to the streetscape and empty parklands, to name just a few. The sense of suburban life becomes increasingly stimulating.

The exhibited works have been produced spontaneously with minimum preliminary preparation. Small re-torn and brightly coloured collage-like drawings were used as reference guides to bring together my emotions and the landscape. In the planning and initial production of these works, I wanted light, bright and random work - high-key slightly blended palettes of flesh-like pinks, soft greens, ochres and pale-blue tones were my choices as these were the highlighted colours of the landscape and my emotions during this creative experience.

The works were produced using unclean palettes and palette knives and many varied sized pieces of cardboard as brushes that were reused over again to blend the different coloured media. While working on each piece I felt the need to be close to each work and refused to allow any painting to remain semi blank for long. Accuracy wasn't a priority at this time. In fact, reworking entire wet paintings at a time and transferring fresh surfaces to another work proved to be appropriate and artistically satisfying. During this period I often began working early in the morning, sometimes as early as sunrise, to feel the day's beginning silence and to experience the changing day ahead.... the simple things were my inspiration. As I painted the works, side by side for most of their production, my thoughts of titles, expressions and their outlook became more descriptive of certain behaviours of mine as they related to the landscape.

- Brendon Mogg

Qualifications 1993-94 Associate Diploma in Fine Arts Selected Exhibitions (Upcoming) 2010 Recent Colour works (Solo) David-Rex Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney 2010 Canterbury Art Show, Victoria 2010 Recent works (Solo) Washhouse Gallery, Sydney 2010 Saint Ignatius Collage Art Show, Sydney 2010 Mount Eyre Vineyard Art Prize, David-Rex Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney 2010 Metro Art Prize (Pending judging), Victoria 2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize (Pending judging), Victoria 2010 Lethbridge 10,000, Brisbane 2010 Landscape in colour (Solo) Art Treasury, Sydney 2010 Balmain Art & Craft Show, Sydney ~ 2009 Canterbury Art Show (Featured Artist), Victoria 2009 Featured works for the Launch of Art Treasury Gallery, Sydney 2009 Balmain Art & Craft Show, Sydney 2009 Finalist AGENDO Art Prize, Victoria 2009 Finalist Waverley Art Prize, Sydney 2009 Finalist Mosman Art Prize, Sydney 2009 Finalist Mount Eyre Vineyard Art Prize. Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney 2009 North Sydney Art Prize 2009 Recent works (Solo) Washhouse Gallery, Sydney 2008 Art2Muse at the Tom Dunne Gallery, Sydney 2008 Australian Contemporary. Gaffer Gallery. Hong Kong 2008 Nomination-Sovereign Art Prize. Hong Kong 2008 Featured works on Channel Tens 'The biggest Loser'. Sydney 2008 Canterbury Art & Craft Show. Victoria 2008 'Recent Works' (Solo) Global Gallery. Sydney 2008 Hill's Grammar Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2008 'Urban Seduction' (Solo) MLC Gallery. Sydney 2008 Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2007 Hong Kong Art Walk. Hong Kong 2007 Gift of Art. Gaffer Gallery. Hong Kong 2007 American Express - Best of Balmain 2007 ISPIRAZIONI~An Italian Sketchbook. MLC Gallery, Sydney 2007 Recent Works' Gallery Cafe Annandale. Sydney 2007 'Taking Sides' Group Exhibition. BLKMRKT, Southport QLD 2007 Art2Muse at the MLC Gallery, Sydney 2006 Artworks Contemporary Gallery Christmas Exhibition. Southport QLD 2006 Group Exhibition. Albury Cellar Gallery. Sydney 2006 ArtSydney06. Sydney (MLC Gallery) 2006 Nostimo. Sydney 2006 On-line Exhibtion. Art2Muse. Sydney 2006 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2006 Studio Landscape Exhibition. Sydney 2006 ArtSpace. Albury Cellar Gallery. Sydney 2006 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2006 Simmer on the Bay ~ Art2Muse. Sydney 2006 Recent Works. Iain Howell's Gallery. Sydney 2006 Recent Works. Gallery2021. Sydney 2005 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2005 Vermillion Home. Sydney 2005 Artwork Contemporary Gallery Christmas Exhibition. Southport QLD 2005 Stockroom Exhibition. Global Gallery. Sydney 2005 ArtSydney05. Sydney 2005 Entwined within Landscape. Global Gallery. Sydney 2005 Above my Darkness. Gallery2021. Sydney 2004 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2004 ArtSydney04. Sydney 2004 ArtMelbourne04. Melbourne (Gallery2021) 2003 Global Gallery. Sydney 2003 ArtSydney03. Sydney (Gallery2021) 2003 Thirty Artists. Global Gallery. Sydney 2003 Berkelouw Books Show, Art2Muse, Sydney 2003 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2002 Stockroom Exhibition. Global Gallery. Sydney 2002 Global Group. Global Gallery. Sydney 2002 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2002 Stockroom Exhibition. Gallery2021. Auckland 2001 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2000 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 2000 BIG, BOLD. Warren De Maria Gallery. Sydney 1999 The Balmain Art & Craft Show. Sydney 1998 Acquisitive Show. Raw Nerve Gallery. Sydney

Collections Corporate Collections in Australia, Switzerland, Spain, USA Private Collections in Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, China (Hong Kong) Publications Harpers Bazaar LOOK Magazine INSIDE OUT Magazine Sydney Morning Herald~The (Sydney) Magazine. The Sunday Telegraph Magazine Marie Claire (News & Events) Allens Arthur Robinson Website 2006 Sydney Theatre Company Newsletter Mcgrath Real Estate Magazine (Front cover with Artwork) Artist Feature for Gaffer Studio Gallery, Hong Kong-The China Post(19/04/08)

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