Bare
Shown at Side Gallery August 2025
In his debut solo exhibition Bare, Brisbane-based artist Andrew Sleeman presents a gentle series of paintings that examine the human form. This exploration extends beyond physicality into an investigation of how emotion is held within the body.
Working primarily with oil and acrylic, Sleeman brings his gestural brushwork and quiet observational style to depictions of nude figures. These are not grand, performative scenes but moments of stillness of figures caught mid-thought, rendered with expressive mark-making and a deep reverence for natural light, form, and composition. Bare captures the power of the uncelebrated moment, inviting the viewer into the created realm of tension, vulnerability, and pause.
Curated by Laura Brinin
Photography by Rhianna Phillips
It's the weight of the past that pins us there, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 50.8 cm, framed SOLD
A dream interrupted halfway through, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 50.8 cm, framed
Cast in a role, oil on canvas, 20.3 x 25.4 cm, framed
Even good boys bleed, oil on canvas, 25 x 25 cm, framed
Everyone fails at who they are supposed to be, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed
Give yourself a moment everyday, oil on canvas, 20.3 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
I can't see the point, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
I can’t understand why you don’t understand me, oil on canvas, framed, 30.5 x 40.6 cm
I don't know why I am the way I am, oil on canvas, 20.3 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
If you know what you are doing there is no risk, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed
I've always had a wild heart, oil on canvas, 45.5 x 61.5 cm, framed
Just tell me what you need, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed
Nothing on, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 50.8 cm, framed
Something underneath everything, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed
Surrender, oil on canvas, 20.3 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
The struggle is not to see what isn't there, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
There's more for us on the horizon than anyone knows, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 40.6 cm, framed
Time alone to wonder who I am, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
To feel the texture of your life, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed
Try to feel, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD
You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet, oil on canvas, 20.3 x 25.4 cm, framed SOLD