BELEM LETT

for your eyes only

For your eyes only builds on Lett’s enduring investigation into abstraction, colour and perception, Belem Lett presents a new body of painting and sculptural work that deepens his exploration of light as both subject and material. Continuing a practice distinguished by its intuitive precision, these works consider the ways colour inhabits space, how gesture records time, and how abstraction can evoke experiences that exist beyond language.

Lett has developed a visual language grounded in the physical act of painting. His distinctive broad brushstrokes, once celebrated for their bold simplicity, have evolved into increasingly nuanced compositions where movement, atmosphere and luminosity converge. Each mark carries the trace of a lived gesture—an accumulation of rhythm, repetition and instinct that transforms the painted surface into a record of perception itself.

BIO

Belem Lett is a Sydney based painter who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally and has participated in numerous art fairs including; Sydney Contemporary, Melbourne Art Fair, Spring 1883 (Melbourne and Sydney), Den Fair. Lett has won the following prizes: Omnia Art Prize (2022), Kangaroo Valley Art Prize (2022), Hazelhurst Work on Paper Award (Emerging Artist Prize 2019), The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2010). Lett has also been a finalist multiple awards including: The Sir John Sulman Prize (2025, 2023), Mosman Art Prize, Waverley Art Prize, The Blake Prize, Bayside Art Prize, The Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, The Fishers Ghost art Award, NAB emerging Artist award, The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, The Paddington Art prize, The Lake Art Prize, The Glover Prize, Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, The Chippendale New World Art Prize, The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize, Gosford Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Woollahra Small Sculpture prize. In 2011 Lett held a residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris. Lett was also the founding Director and curator of Wellington St Projects, Sydney 2012-2019.

CATALOGUE

Belem Lett Squash, Oil on aluminium composite panel 150 x 122 cm, 2026