April 30, 2022 - May 29, 2022
BRETT CANET-GIBSON – LIGHT ENTERS UPSIDE DOWN
Artist:
Brett Canét-Gibson
Location:
mandoon
Canét-Gibson has a national reputation for portraits that are made using natural light, a portable backdrop and people Brett has just met on the street. He uses the city as his casting agency and the sidewalk as his studio.
“Canét-Gibson’s urban vignettes express both his alertness to beauty and his sensitivity to the shape and meaning of words of many languages. His juxtaposed images are subtly affecting expressions of visual wit. Brett has a motto for what he does: ‘one camera, two shoes, infinite possibilities’. Yet he tarries—stirred by the possibility of meaning, where most of us would pass, oblivious. ‘I stand smudged and silent’, he writes. His work is the elegant, affecting residue of his presence." *
With a career spanning over 25 years, Brett is the recipient of many international, national, and local portrait and editorial awards with work collected in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. His work has also been selected for the State Library’s Permanent Archives Pictorial Collection which aims to cover and preserve all aspects of WA's history and stories.
*Dr Sarah Engledow, Visiting Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University, Curator and writer.
Artist Talk Sunday 1st May 2022, 2.15 - 3.30pm
