Angela Brennan (b. 1960) is a highly regarded contemporary Australian painter and ceramicist. Born in Ballart, Victoria and now based in Melbourne, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Painting at RMIT in 1981 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1992. She was awarded a PhD from MADA, Monash University in 2019. In the 1990s Brennan was part of a noteworthy cohort of Australian painters engaging with colour abstraction. She has since achieved recognition for her explorations into the genres of portraiture, landscape, still life and text-based painting, and ceramics, enabling the artist to retain her mastery of colour and form while expanding the philosophical and conceptual ideas in her works. Brennan has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas since the late 1980s and has been awarded a number of international residencies. Her works are held in private, regional, state and national collections in Australia including Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia. Brennan is also represented in the Mountblanc Art collection in Switzerland and the World Bank collection in New York as well as various international private collections.
