Art2Muse

Artworks available to view in Sydney

Brendon Mogg 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 productuion 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

2008 Art2Muse at the Tom Dunne Gallery, Sydney
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 MLC Gallery, Sydney
2006 Artworks Contemporary Gallery Christmas Exhibition. Southport QLD
2006 Group Exhibition. Albury Cellar Gallery. Sydney
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
2003 Global Gallery. Sydney
2003 ArtSydney03. Sydney
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

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