Brenton Drechsler

Brenton Drechsler, is an emerging Australian visual artist born in Campbelltown, South Australia on Kaurna Country. He studied at TAFE SA from 2006 to 2010, completing an Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design and Technology and receiving the 2010 TAFE SA Student of the Year award. After working as a self-employed fashion designer until 2015, Drechsler completed a Bachelor of Visual Art at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2022, where he won the Hill Smith Art Advisory Award for Painting and Drawing. In 2023 he achieved First Class Honours at the same institution.

His practice explores opacity, personal narrative and spatial orientation through a queer lens. He also examines the experience of not belonging to place through the material qualities of paint. Drechsler has been a finalist in national prizes including the National Emerging Art Prize, the John Glover Art Prize, The Lester Prize and the Lethbridge Landscape Prize. His work is held in private collections across Australia and internationally.