Over four decades, Angela Brennan’s revered and influential practice is a study in the transcendence of colour and thresholds of form and experience. Her large-scale oil paintings gift us the exhilaration of being with art and of being in the world. Brennan’s titles draw upon her interests in physics, philosophy, pre-modern art and antiquities as sources of poetic insight towards an understanding of abstraction. Brennan is best known as an abstract painter though her work includes figurative painting, portraiture, text and objects in ceramics, bronze and other materials.

Brennan has presented solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat (2024), the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne (2017) and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2006). She has exhibited in significant group survey exhibitions such as The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2025), Painting. More Painting, the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016) and Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria (2013).