Stephen Brasch
Award winning Queensland painter Stephen Brasch will be exhibiting in the "30 Days Hath September.." show in 2010.
Stephen has been painting and exhibiting for twenty years. He has a deep engagement with the landscape, particularly the area surrounding Kallangur where he has lived and worked most of his life. His paintings reflect this.
The landscape on the northern fringe of the Brisbane suburbs is a conglomerate of industrial sheds, semi-rural properties, rough scrub and never ending excavations for road upgrades and extensions. From this ramshackle inspiration, Stephen produces paintings with great affection and sympathy for this tumbledown landscape.
The 30x30cm exhibition has given Stephen the opportunity to produce a small series of works based around the area of Canberra and Jindabyne which he and his family visit annually. The paintings reflect the clear high daylight and pale silvery vegetation of that area in December and its occasionally sullen skies near nightfall.
Since graduating from Queensland University of Technology in 1991 Stephen has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions. His work has won several awards including the Pine Rivers Prize and in 1993 Stephen was a finalist in the prestigious Moet and Chandon prize which toured Australia.
Bearing West 30x30cm
Driveway View 30x30cm
Lake Island 30x30cm
Tumbledown Loop 30x30cm
Timber Shed
Twin Towers - Narangba