Brett Weir - Biography

The polychromatic paintings of Brett Weir are fluid compositions that whisk across metallic surfaces transposing the Artist’s dynamism & ebullience into material form. Prompting new visual pathways Weir’s bold, bright, intuitive compositions are spontaneous expressions & at the same time highly considered, measured works with an energy & capacity to be turbulent yet calm, filled with movement yet still. They are a form of meditation & action all at once. Weir has created a visual language that transcends beyond the everyday allowing us to see more in the World around us.

Created through a deft use of compounds, pigments & binders applied layer upon layer, as well as a process of sanding, scrapping, dissolving sections of his works to reveal underlying patterns and effects, Weir is in control of the materials he uses & simultaneously looks to embrace unscripted outcomes.

In many ways Weir disappears from the Artwork in the act of making it. His painting practice is a way for the Artist to embrace & interpret the omnipresence of all our surrounds both physical and metaphysical as has happened throughout all periods of time across all cultures that seek the numinous. Through a multi-layered process applying a wide variety of materials, then removing them and then rebuilding again, Weir’s paintings are objects created with deep thought, reflection & an understanding of how coded combinations of shape, colour, movement & mark engage the eye, heighten the mind, & elevate our senses & perception.

Weir has exhibited in Australia & Internationally for over two & a half decades, most often in Zurich Switzerland as well as in Berlin, Copenhagen & Sydney on numerous occasions. Through this National & International exposure Weir’s approach to creating work & exhibiting has been refined over time leading to highly resolved paintings & series’ of works. Weir studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, was a Finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize & has been the recipient of a Residency via Creative Victoria. Weir has also accepted the opportunity to paint Commissioned works, most notably from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.