February 2027
STUDIO ONE, HOTA (Home of the Arts)
Gold Coast, Australia
Online Exclusive with Artsy.net
As featured in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Presented by PoetsArtists and 33 Contemporary, in partnership with HOTA
the exhibition
After the golden hour — the suspended moment when daylight fades but darkness hasn’t arrived. When manufactured glamour meets genuine complexity.
Thirty-five to forty-five works — oils, watercolours, photographs and an immersive installation — explore Hollywood’s Golden Era through Romantic Noir: where light confronts shadow, and beauty acknowledges its cost.
about the artist: brett moffatt
Descended from a woman who refused Hollywood’s machinery in 1925, Brett Moffatt has spent forty years investigating why. That unanswered question shaped his practice as a painter, photographer, researcher, and cultural historian—creating work that exists at the intersection of fine art, film history, and material culture archaeology.
Moffatt trained in makeup artistry and worked at Warner Bros. studios, learning the technical construction of glamour. He studied George Hurrell’s and Clarence Sinclair Bull’s lighting techniques through archival research and practical reconstruction. He collects authentic period costumes, vintage cosmetics, and historical ephemera—not as memorabilia, but as primary source materials for understanding Hollywood’s visual language.
His paintings employ classical oil techniques informed by deep technical and historical knowledge. He reconstructs 1940s lighting setups in heritage hotels. He hand-builds period-accurate props. He approaches each canvas as both an artistic creation and a historical investigation—where rigorous research informs aesthetic choices, and beauty becomes a form of scholarly argument.
Represented by PoetsArtists and 33 Contemporary Gallery (Palm Beach/Chicago), Moffatt’s work has been featured in exhibitions exploring the intersection of fine art and film culture. His multidisciplinary practice includes painting, photography, writing, and curatorial work—all unified by his investigation of Hollywood’s golden era as cultural phenomenon and psychological space.
After The Golden Hour represents nineteen years of focused research and painting practice, culminating in this February 2027 solo exhibition at HOTA. It marks his most comprehensive exploration yet of the question his grandmother Lucy left unanswered: What lies beneath Hollywood’s golden surface?
Find out more about Brett Moffatt and his work HERE.
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