# Episode 252 - Brett Mcmahon: A Poetic Repsonse to Landscape

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Published: 2026-05-12T18:04:00+00:00
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## Resource

Brett McMahon  is a Newcastle-based painter whose work explores the structures and rhythms of the natural and built environment. Represented by Nanda Hobbs, McMahon has built a significant practice spanning painting, drawing and installation. His work is known for its distilled, abstract language, bold lines, shifting geometries and a strong sense of spatial tension. Drawing from the coastal bush, industrial architecture and lived experience of place, his paintings sit somewhere between observation and reconstruction, where landscape becomes structure. Over a career spanning more than three decades, McMahon has held over 30 solo exhibitions and exhibited widely across Australia and internationally. His work is held in public, corporate and private collections across Australia, Europe, Asia and the United States.  In this conversation, we talk about painting as a way of thinking, the role of environment in shaping visual language, and how a practice evolves over time without losing its core concerns. We also get into scale, material and the push and pull between control and intuition in the studio. Brett is represented by  Nanda Hobbs  in Sydney Brett's show at  Gosford Art Gallery  Understory, opens 16th May 2026 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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