The G Contemporary will be kicking off its 2026 exhibition calendar with anew solo exhibition by Mitchell Cheesman, What The Blue Note Wrote On Brick Mountain.
This exhibition is always highly anticipated, and it’s a pleasure to experience the evolution of Mitchell’s artistic journey and the Hastings Street gallery is confident this collection will exceed expectations.
No one articulates the work better than the artist himself:
“When I came up with the title, it was instantly appealing, appearing to me as to what could be the title of an unknown Penguin’s Classic novel from the 1920’s, sitting at the dusty back shelf of the Buderim Rare Bookshop situated just up the hill from where I live and paint,” Cheeseman said.
The story, although undiscovered by many, contains outbursts of blind freedom contrasting to the structural boundaries built by bricks at the other end, shaping an atmosphere of poems in the form of bold tactility. A visual travel book accommodating houses, signs, statues, gardens, sounds, scents, swans, shadows and half-pence.
“Wherever I go, alone or not, I will sit and draw and gather my surroundings, collecting everything I feel and marking it into the blank page, real landscapes reimagined. Nature is the only reason I can paint, it is the subject. Collecting small parts of nature and placing them together on a surface, is why the paintings appear the way they do.
Poets are collectors, observers and pourers of the world, and I’m a poet of paint.”
Mitchell Cheesman’s exhibition What The Blue Note Wrote On Brick Mountain night will be displayed at The G Contemporary, 6/32 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads from 15 January to 1 February.
For more information visit www.thegcontemporary.com
