“Confessions” my new show will be opening next Friday the 28th October at Lethbridge Gallery from 7-8:30pm (136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane). I will also be in at the gallery from 10 - 5pm on Saturday 29th Oct, so if you’re in town, drop in and say hi!
The show will be up until 15th November, full collection available here
“The Abyss Stares Back”
180 x 118 cm
Oil on Linen
This collection includes a range of symbolic figurative paintings and sculpture, as well as a series of figure drawings, either studies for the paintings or life drawings done simply as responses to the model.
Dreamt Redemption (after Murakami's Killing Commendatore) Oil on Linen 89 x 180 cm
Watch an interview about the inspirations and process for this show from a studio visit by Lethbridge Gallery.
Artist Statement about "Confessions”
What is it to confess? A secret, hidden beneath the public face, is surrendered to view. In this collection, Scott Breton turns to experiences connected to shame and pain, to the eternal struggle between despair and the vital lust for life. The results are dreamscapes. Or perhaps nightmares, with some containing confronting surreal imagery. Non-verbal, felt senses of the human condition, terrifying and beautiful, become a seductive black ocean, a spreading patch of blood, and the caress of golden light. Breton has made pictures of a mental jumble of conflicting forces shaping our world, from Palaeolithic cave painting, to today's mental health crisis, to contemplations of artificial intelligence, to the practises of Sufi mystics. In a formal sense, the life drawings included in this show are connected to the paintings by an investigation of the calligraphic, painterly mark, which has the capacity to make tangible the secret, kinetic themes that can be felt in the figure, and in the mark-making hand.
Icarus Timeloop (Eternal Recurrence) Oil on Linen 102 x 137 cm
The collection is available here