Angela Brennan emerged as one of the most popular Melbourne artists reworking the idea of colour abstraction in the 1990s. The concepts of analytical philosophy, such as the logic of 'possible worlds', provided a whimsical theoretical basis for her imagery, as well as fuelling the word play of her titles. Brennan’s references productively complicate her abstract, figurative, and sometimes text-based works, provoking the viewer to engage with the work in new and unknown ways.
Exhibition view, Angela Brennan, Celestial - Terrestial, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (21 March — 13 April 2019)
Angela Brennan Walking, 2019; oil on canvas; 181 x 171 cm
Angela Brennan, Works for Forms of Life, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2017
Angela Brennan Cup 2012, Jug with two handles 2013 and Bust with pot 2013; earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable; Exhibited at Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013-14
Angela Brennan Untitled, 2014; oil on linen; 138.5 x 152.5 cm
Exhibition view, Angela Brennan, Everything is what it is & not some other thing, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (15 October — 7 November 2009)
Angela Brennan Celestial - Terrestrial
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019
Angela Brennan Forms of Life
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2017-18
Group Show, Shut Up and Paint
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2016-17
Angela Brennan Rustic Deities
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2015
Group Show, Melbourne Now
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013-14
Angela Brennan Infinity plus One
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show, True Story
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010-11
Angela Brennan Everything is what it is & not some other thing
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009
Angela Brennan Circular Scenery
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Group Show, STOLEN RITUAL
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006-07
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Angela Brennan Geranium Lake
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Angela Brennan FAITES L'AMOUR PAS LA GUERRE
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2004
Angela Brennan Oestrogen
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2003
Angela Brennan
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2001
Angela Brennan New Paintings
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2001
Angela Brennan
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1997
Group Show, Stockroom
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1995
Angela Brennan
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1994
ANGELA BRENNAN
Born 1960 Ballarat, Australia
EDUCATION
PhD, Monash University
Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
Degree in Fine Art, Painting, RMIT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Celestial - Terrestrial, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Angela Brennan: Lounging in the doorways of two worlds, Monash Art Design & Architecture Gallery, Melbourne
Love that moves the sun and the other stars, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Forms of Life, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Moving Drawings (with Mel Deerson), Alderman Gallery, Melbourne
The Angel Gabriel (has no lungs), KNULP, Sydney
The Garden of Earthly Delights (with Glenn Barkley), Westspace, Melbourne
Rustic Deities, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Things and not-things, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Plan C is to plan see, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
On a round ball, China Art Projects, Hong Kong
Stop Humming Glenn Gould, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Infinity plus One, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
To whom the silver footed goddess replied, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
To whom Achilles swiftest of the swift replied, Orexart, Auckland
Plantation, TCB, Melbourne
Happen Today, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Gear Box Gallery, Melbourne
Everything is what it is and not some other thing, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Beautiful World, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Circular Scenery, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Angela Brennan, Every Morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
still life, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Geranium Lake, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Paintings and Drawings, de Recourt Art, The Gallery on Cork Street, London
Peas Cooked the Roman Way, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Faites l'amour pas la guerre, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Business men, they drink my wine, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
Oestrogen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Niagara Galleries (Melbourne Art Fair), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Temple Studios, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
First Draft West, Sydney
Possible Worlds, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
R & M McGivern Prize, Realm and Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Maroondah City Council, VIC (forthcoming)
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
All We Can't See, Yellow House, Sydney
Colour & Form, Home @735, Sydney
Other Worlds: An exhibition to celebrate International Women's Day, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
Schoolhouse Studios Fundraising Exhibition, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne
Emblazon: Melbourne's coat of arms, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Travellers from Australia: Artists in the Ancient Pafos Theatre, Pafos, Cyprus
Let's dance, curated by Charlotte Day, Arts Project Australia, Victoria
Blue Chip XIX: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Ten Thousand Hours, King David School, Melbourne
Abstraction: Celebrating Australian women abstract artists, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra. Touring: Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria (2017); Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW (2017); Cairns Art Gallery, QLD (2017); Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW (2018) and QUT Art Museum, Brisbane QLD (2018)
Coney Island, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Redland Art Awards Exhibition, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland
Len Fox Painting Award Exhibition, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria
R & M MCGivern Prize, ArtSpace at Realm, Melbourne
Korea International Art Fair 2016 / ART SEOUL, Seoul COEX Hall A & B, Korea
Shut Up and Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Painting. More Painting (solo study), ACCA, Melbourne
Climarte Poster Project, Climarte - Arts for a Safe Climate, Melbourne
OVERUNDERSIDEWAYSDOWN, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
WestSpace Annual Fundraiser, WestSpace, Melbourne
Support material, soft furnishings, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
Parenting is Political, Bus Projects, Melbourne
June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome
TCB Annual Fundraiser, TCB, Melbourne
West Space Annual Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
Object Lessons, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
Blue Chip XVII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Mr President…., Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
The Stool, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow
Re-raising Consciousness, TCB, Melbourne
I Probably Don't Like You, Incidents Above a Bar, Melbourne
No Fond Return of Love, Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney
Show Time: The Art Collection of Arts Centre Melbourne, Arts Centre, Melbourne
Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Non in Casa (with Liang Luscombe), Brunswick East, Melbourne
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
NEW 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Heavenly Stems, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Melbourne
Blue Chip XV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Locale 13: 90's Hits, Yarra Council, Richmond Town Hall
Look. Look Again: Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
Roads Cross: Contemporary Directions in Australian Art, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide
Korea International Art Fair, Seou
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Geelong contemporary art prize, Geelong Art Gallery
roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art, Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery, Adelaide, and touring
Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne!
Korea International Art Fair, Seoul
Kaleidoscope: Art and Colour, National Gallery of Victoria
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
Artwork to Tapestry, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Celebration, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Muster, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Korea International Art Fair, Seoul
Can't See the Wood for the Trees, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Blue Chip XII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Hell's Bottom Draw, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Shilo project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, and touring Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Collectors' Show, Orexart, Auckland New Zealand
Revisited, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Blue Chip XI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
Taking a line, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
This way up: Abstract works from the La Trobe University Art Collection, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, La Trobe University
Blue Chip X: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Aspects of the Gallery, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
Monash University Collection: A selection of recent acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize, Melbourne
Chat Room, Deloitte Foundation, Sydney
Materiality, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Campus
From here to Eternity: contemporary tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Received with thanks: New acquisitions 2001-07, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Art For Science, Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Charity Exhibition, Nellie Castan Gallery, Victoria
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
Blue Chip IX, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Art and About, Open Gallery, City Street Banners, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Care Australia Art Auction, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Recent Acquisitions, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Selected works from the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Blue Chip VIII, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia.
The Sound of Painting, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Art for Science, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia.
Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland.
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia.
Talking About Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, curated by Felicity Fenner.
Blue Chip VI, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia.
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia.
See here now: The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia.
Four, [with Yvonne Kendall, Wilma Tabacco, Savahndary Vongpoothorn], Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, Australia.
New Contemporaries Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Hermanns Art Award 2003, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (touring)
Blue Chip V, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Indecorous Abstraction, Light Square Gallery, AIT Arts, Adelaide, Australia
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia
The Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Creiamo insieme per un minuto: 20:2002 20/20 2002, Milan, Italy
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery - The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Love Colour, Studio 91B, Adelaide, Australia
Something for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne, Australia
Rockhampton Art Show, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Headlands, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Visions of Their World, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
On the Brink: Abstraction of the 90s, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Blue Chip II, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Arts d'Australie, Air France, Paris, France
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Love Colour, Studio 91B, Adelaide, Australia
Something for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne, Australia
Rockhampton Art Show, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Headlands, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Visions of Their World, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Salon Grandes et Jeunes D'Aujord'hui, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Australie Art a Bastille, Paris, France
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Antipodean Abstraction, University of Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, University of Melbourne, Australia
Moet & Chandon Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and touring
Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Lovers, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Decadence: 10 Years of Exhibiting, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Track Suits, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
NON: Artists Against Nuclear Testing, Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne, Australia
I Did It For Love, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Collusions: Collaborations Between Visual Artists and Writers, 1st Floor Melbourne, Australia
Blundstone Contemporary Art Award, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Moet & Chandon 1995, Touring Exhibition, Australia
In the Company of Women - 100 Years of Australian Women's Art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia
Best Arrangement For A Single Bloom, Touring Exhibition
Double Vision: Artist's Portraits of Other Artists, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Re-inventing the Grid, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Australian Paintings - Works from the Allen & Hemsley
Collection, Westpac Gallery, as part of the Melbourne International Festival
High Pop, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Barcelona, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
The Angelic Space Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Artworkz 4 Gallery 101, Melbourne, Australia
Ten Square Works For Wilderness, Linden, Melbourne, Australia
SWIM, Linden, Melbourne, Australia
Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Small Works - Wide Vision, Downlands Art Show, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Exaltate Jubilate, Store 5, Melbourne, Australia
Room For Abstraction, Heide, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Stories and Scapes, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Art works 3, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne, Australia
Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia
Platform, Spencer Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Australia
Proposals, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne & Adelaide Contemporary Centre of Art, Adelaide and Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Heidelberg and Heritage; 9 x 5 Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne, Australia
8 x 10 Fund Raising Exhibition, Contemporary Centre of Art, Adelaide, Australia
Pure, Mori Gallery, Sydney & Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
Vasari Revisited, a Kuntskammer in Melbourne, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Christmas Exhibition, Roar Studios, Melbourne, Australia
AWARDS
Arts Victoria Project Grant
Mentor, Australia Council/Next Wave JUMP Mentoring Program
Australia Council Studio, Milan
Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize
Red Gate Gallery Artists residency, Beijing Art Academy, Beijing (2003 April - May)
Arts Victoria Project Grant
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Moya Dyring Studio at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
New Work Grant, Australia Council
Arts Victoria Project Grant, Australia
Blundstone Contemporary Art Award, Launceston Tasmania, Australia
Australia Council Studio, Barcelona, Spain
COMMISSIONS AND ARTIST PROJECTS
Catalogue inserts, Nigel Lendon / Lucina Lane, Caves Gallery, Melbourne, 2018
City of Melbourne Ceramics Commission, 2018
From a cabin in the woods, Artist book collaboration with Ron Padgett, Collectif Génération, 2018
'Farm Pots', Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol 45, Nos 3 & 4, 2017
Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art/Grossi Florentino Menu Cover Series
Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission
Art and About, Open Gallery, City Street Banners, City of Sydney
'Every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism', Arena Magazine No 84, August-September
'Tartelette aux framboises, a fez from Savers and a boat my father built', Angela Brennan: every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, catalogue, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
HEAT Magazine, No. 10 New series
'Espace Rouge', Espace Rouge, No.1, http://www.rouge.com.au/espace.html
Angela Brennan: 'Beauty in the paintings of Angela Brennan', Island no 88, 2002
Angela Brennan: 'Mountains in the Palm of My Hand' ArtFan, Spring, 1993
Angela Brennan: 'On What There Is', Broadsheet, Adelaide Arts Festival, March
Angela Brennan: 'Graphic Art Is Not Wobbly', Set Sub Set: An Installation Publication, Melbourne, September
Angela Brennan: 'Because The World Is Round It Turns Me On', Agenda, October
WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST
“I wish I were in Rome Today…”, Catalogue Essay, Liang Luscombe, Non in Casa, Brunswick East, 2013
'Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Alhalkere - Paintings from Utopia', Like Magazine, No.8
'Tony Clark: a Colloquium', Heide Museum of Modern Art
'Andrew McQualter', 1st Floor, Fitzroy
'Noella Stratford', The Women's Gallery, Melbourne, ArtFan No. 3
'Ode to Vault', ArtFan, "Public Art” No.2
'Sensual Potential' (curator &catalogue essay), Angela Brennan, Linden & the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
'Geoff Lowe: According To Others', Collaborations 1980-1992' Catalogue Essay, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
'On What There Is', Broadsheet, Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia, December
'On What There Is', Broadsheet, Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia, December
ARTIST IN RESIDENCIES
Artist in Residence, The University of Sydney Archaeological Excavations of the Paphos Theatre Site, Cyprus
Artist in Residence, Strathnairn Arts, Canberra
Australia Council Studio, Rome
Australia Council Studio, Milan
Studio residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Artist in residence, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing Art Academy, China
Artist in residence, Lee Street Primary School, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Artist in residence, Mt Scopus Memorial College, Melbourne, Australia
Artist in residence, Ormond College, University of Melbourne, Australia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Angela Brennan: 19 Desires and One Belief, 3-ply, Victoria, 2019
Blue Chip XIX: The Collectors' Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2017
Abstraction: Celebrating women abstract artists, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2017
Max Delany, 'Angela Brennan', Painting. More Painting, exhibition catalogue, ACCA, 2016, pp. 50-53
Blue Chip XVII: The Collectors' Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2015
Angela Brennan, Plan C is to plan see, exhibition e-catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors' Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
Liang Luscombe, Non in Casa, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2014
Steven Tonkin, Show Time: the art collection of Arts Centre Melbourne, exhibition catalogue, Victoria
Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne, 2014
Sacha Grishin, Accounting for Taste: The Lowensteins Arts management Collection ,Macmillan, Melbourne
Maudie Palmer (ed.), Encounters with Australian Modern Art, Hermann Editeurs, Paris
Barbara Flynn (ed.), Emerge and Review: A look into the UBS Australian art collection, UBS
Feelings: One Hundred Years of Montblanc, Montblanc Simplo, Germany, 2006
Jingzhe Li, Australian Contemporary Painting, Shanghai People's fine Art Publishing House
Charlotte Day (ed.), A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Naomi Cass (ed.), See here now: The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Thames & Hudson
Donald Williams, In Our Own Image: The Story of Australian Art 4th Ed McGraw Hill.
Christopher Marshall, Macmillan Interpreting Art, Macmillan
Laura Murray-Cree and Nevill Drury, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House
D. Williams and C. Simpson, Art Now: Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw Hill
Catalogues
Blue Chip XXI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Emblazon: Melbourne's coat of arms, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall
All We Can't See, Yellow House Gallery, Sydney; Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Blue Chip XX: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Travellers from Australia: Artists in the Ancient Pafos Theatre, Pafos, Cyprus, http://www.tenthousandhoursexhibition.com.au/online-catalogue/
Angela Brennan: Forms of Life, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Love that moves the sun and the other stars, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Let's Dance, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Blue Chip XIX: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Painting. More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne, http://westspace.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/West-Space-2016-Fundraiser-catalogue.compressed.pdf
Things and not-things, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, http://tcbartinc.org.au/content/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TCB-fundraiers-catalogue.pdf
Fine Arts 2014-15, British School at Rome, http://westspace.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/WSF15-catalogue.pdf
Blue Chip XVII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Showtime: the art collection of Arts Centre Melbourne, Arts Centre Melbourne
Liang Luscombe, Non in Casa, with contributions & collaborative works by Angela Brennan
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria
Blue Chip XV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Into the Light: Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art, Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery, Adelaide
Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Change, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Happen Today, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Blue Chip XII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Chip XI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Blue Chip X: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Monash University Collection: A selection of recent acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Blue Chip IX, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Angela Brennan, Every Morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Peas cooked the Roman Way, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Felicity Fenner, Talking about Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Blue Chip VI, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Blue Chip V, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
John McPhee, Angela Brennan, Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
Robert Lindsay, Towards Colour
Patrick Hutchings, Angela Brennan New Paintings
Jenny Long, Perfect Day
William Nuttall, Contemporary Australian Abstraction
Angela Brennan/Neil Taylor, Niagara Galleries catalogue
Jim Morgan, Angela Brennan, 25 August - 8 October, Ararat Regional Art Gallery'
Contemporary Australian Paintings - Works from the Allen & Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Jeff Gibson, High Pop, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Gail Hastings, Oh, Tango, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
James Harley, Room for Abstraction, Heide, Museum of Modern Art
Stuart Koop, Datur Tertium: A Third is Given
Geoff Lowe, Possible Worlds
David O'Halloran, Proposals
Articles
Laura Couttie, 'Angela Brennan', Artist Profile, 46, 2019
Jarrad W. Paul, 'Angela Brennan's Forms of Life', Amphora: An Ancient World Journal, Vol 1, 2018, https://theamphoraissue.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/amphora-vol1-2018-jarrad-paul.pdf
Tai Mitsuji, 'Angela Brennan', Art Collector, Sydney Contemporary 2018 Special Edition, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/03/illustrating-the-nauru-files-we-have-to-fight-with-something
Julia Lomas, 'Angela Brennan's “Forms of Life” at Ian Potter Museum of Art', Memoreview, 16 Dec 2017
https://www.memoreview.net/blog/angela-brennan-s-forms-of-life-at-ian-potter-museum-of-art-by-julia-lomas
Craig Barker and Diana Wood Conroy, `Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus', https://theconversation.com/old-sites-new-visions-art-and-archaeology-collide-in-cyprus-84586
Sally Groom, 'The State of Painting', 2017
Glenn Barkley, 'OVERUNDERSIDEWAYSDOWN', The Journal of Australian Ceramics 55:1, 2016
Jane O'Sullivan, 'Under 5K: Angela Brennan', Art Collector 73, 2015
Andrew Frost, 'Critics' picks', Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2015
'Angela Brennan: Rustic Deities', Raven, 20 January 2015
Glenn Barkley, “So hot right now? Contemporary ceramics and contemporary art”, Art and Australia, Issue No. 51.4, 2014, pp 550-561
Dan Rule, 'Review: Group Show—Heavenly Stems', Raven, 21 August 2013
Dylan Rainforth, 'Abstract patters rule', The Age, 21 August 2013
Dan Rule, 'Heavenly Stems', The Saturday Age, 24 August 2013
Margo Neale, 'roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art', Artlink 32:4, 2012
Maurice O'Riordan, '”X” marks the space: roads cross, Flinders University Museum of Art', Art Monthly 252, August 2012
'Infiity plus one', Sydney Morning Herald, 8-9 October 2011
'What Now-Angela Brennan', Australian Art Collector, Issue 52, April-June, pp.120-121
Linda Short, 'Freedom and necessity: Angela Brennan and the pursuit of painting', eyeline, No. 63 Winter 2007 p. 61
Kate Sands, 'Angela Brennan: Every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism in Melbourne', Art Monthly Australia, #194, October 2006, pp. 18 - 21
Robert Nelson, 'The new and the archaic in spiritual harmony', The Age, 9 August 2006
Megan Blackhouse, 'Every picture spins a tale', The Age, June 21, 2006
Penny Webb, 'Brennan accentuates vision', The Age, 28 February, 2006
Harbant Gill, 'Brush speaks for her', Herald Sun, 13 February 2006
Jeff Makin, 'A U-turn to humanity', Herald Sun, February 13, 2006
Amanda Rowell, Angela Brennan - Text Paintings', Heat # 10, Getting it Right, Sydney 2005, pp. 97- 112
Patrick Hutchings, 'Angela Brennan, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne', Review, Australian Art Collector Issue 28, April - June 2004 pp. 164 - 165
Alex McDonald, Fiona Foley & Angela Brennan, State of the Arts, www.stateart.com.au/sota/reviews/default.asp?fid=3339
Samela Harris, Addicted to art', Australian Art Collector, Issue 32, April `05, p. 118
Timothy Morrell, “Angela Brennan,” 'Fifty Years of Australia's most collectable artists,' Australian Art Collector, No. 31, 2005
Patrick Hutchings, “Angela Brennan,” Australian Art Collector, issue 29, July - September, pp. 164 - 165
Max Delany, “Gallery: Selections from recent exhibitions in Australia: Angela Brennan, The Wrong Side of Capitalism - Niagara Galleries,” Art & Australia Vol. 41, No 4, Winter, p. 601
Louise Bellamy, “The Art of Text Messages,” The Age, 24 April
Ashley Crawford, “Peas cooked the Roman Way,” The Sunday Age, 4/4/04
Robert Nelson, “Brennan's P's and Q's,” The Age, 30/4/04
Patrick Hutchings, “Angela Brennan,” Australian Art Collector 28, April 2004
Louise Bellamy, “The art of text messages,” The Age, Saturday April 24, p. 6, 7
Emily Childs, “Blue Chip VI: The Collector's Exhibition,” Australian Art Collector 2, January 2004
Peter Hill, “Critics Picks: Angela Brennan and Tony Clark,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 7 - 13
Anne Loxley, “Redlands prize judges spoiled for choice,” Sydney Morning Herald, 23/10/02
Courtney Kidd, “Crammed Abstraction,” Sydney Morning Herald, 7/2/01
Annmarie Kiely, “Kaleidoscope,” Belle Magazine, Aug/Sept 2000
Georgina Jerums, “Truecolours,” Melbourne Weekly Magazine, 3/9/00
Robert Nelson, “Angela Brennan,” The Age, 16/8/00
Brad Leonard, “Angela Brennan,” Herald Sun, 25/8/00
Jeff Makin, “The color of beauty,” Herald Sun, 14/8/00
Megan Backhouse, “Angela Brennan,” The Age, 9/8/00
Drusilla Modjeska, “Personal Space,” The Australian Review of Books, August 1999
Lisa Dabscheck, “Art for posterity,” The Australian Financial Review Magazine, Sept 1998
Jenny Zimmer, “Driven to abstraction,” The Age, 3/6/98
Courtney Kidd, “Goodwill Hunter,” Australian Art Collector, Issue 5, 1998
Stuart Koop, “The failures of modernism and the painting of Angela Brennan,” Art and Australia, Vol. 34 No.2 Summer 1996
Diane Dunbar, “Picture of the Month,” Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, The Examiner, 4/11/1996
Robert Nelson, 'That rare creature, charm', The Age 31/7/1996
Robert Rooney, 'The Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition', The Australian, 28/8/95
Robyn MacKenzie, 'Audacious use of influences,' The Age, 23/8/95
Robyn MacKenzie, 'Exhibition with room to view,' Moet & Chandon, The Age, 16/8/95
Marie Sierra-Hughes, 'Temple Jacqui, Temple Angela,' Herald Sun, 26/5/95
Robert Rooney, 'Re-inventing the Grid,' The Australian, 22/10/94
Chris Heathcote, 'Re-inventing,' The Age, 19/10/94
Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald, 7/10/94
Tim Sowden, 'Angela Brennan, Everyday Saints', World Art No.1, March 1994
Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 1/10/94
Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald, 8/5/93
Tim Sowden, 'Angela Brennan, 200 Gertrude St,' Art & Text, No. 44, 1993
Robyn MacKenzie, 'What girls are like,' Art & Text, No. 46, September 1993
Elwyn Lynn, The Australia, 8/5/93
Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald, 8/5/93
Chris Heathcote, 'Allen and Hemsley Collection Exhibition' The Age, 21/9/93
Robert Rooney, The Australian, 22/8/92
Chris Heathcote, The Age, 4/9/91
Robert Rooney, 'Room for Abstraction,' The Age, 4/9/91
Kevin Murray, 'I Think Therefore I Am,' Agenda, 1991
Jan Blensdorf, The Age, 13/9/91
Chris Heathcote, The Age, 7/8/91
Stuart Koop, 'Angela Brennan: Recent Paintings,' Art Now: Contemporary Art in Melbourne, National Gallery News, January 1990.
Elizabeth Newman, 'Possible Worlds, Angela Brennan's Paintings,' Agenda 12/1989
Julianna Engberg, 'Contemporary Art in Melbourne,' National Gallery News, 12/1989
Robert Rooney, 'Possible Worlds,' The Australian, 25/11/89
John Emery, 'More Than Just A Pretty Picture,' Adelaide Advertiser, 18/10/89
Chris MacAuliffe, 'Proposals,' Agenda, 4/1989
Robert Rooney, 'Proposing Utopia,' The Australian, 27/1/89
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