Brenton Drechsler

Brenton Drechsler (he/him) is an Australian emerging visual artist. He was born in
Campbelltown, South Australia on Kaurna Country. Brenton studied at TAFE SA from 2006
to 2010 and completed an Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design and Technology. In his
graduating year he won the 2010 TAFE SA Student of the Year award. Brenton was self-
employed as a fashion designer until 2015. Brenton attained his Bachelor of Visual Art at
Adelaide Central School of Art in 2022, winning the Hill Smith Art Advisory award for
Painting and Drawing. Brenton went on to complete an Honour’s year of study in 2023, at
Adelaide Central School of Art. Brenton’s practice explores ideas around opacity, personal
narrative, and orientation through the lens of his queer subjectivity. He also explores the
absence of belonging to place through the materiality of paint.