Brett Naseby grew up in the small New South Wales town of Coleambally.

From an early age, he was reading Dr Seuss, developing a love of music, and carving faces into dirt clods on his parents’ farm using a humble bread-and-butter knife.

Brett now lives not far from where he grew up, in Griffith, New South Wales. He has a deep affection for the vast open spaces of the Riverine Plains, where the sheer scale of the landscape allows his imagination to wander freely.

While time spent in the city brings a surge of excitement and creative energy, his mind ultimately finds its calm back home in the quiet of the country.

Brett creates art primarily to make himself laugh. He enjoys bringing strange and whimsical characters to life, and many of them carry traces of self-portraiture, or echoes of friends and acquaintances, who quietly appear throughout his work.

For Brett, art is simply about freedom of expression; something that should remain open and accessible to everyone.

His process is disarmingly simple. Brett creates his artwork using nothing more than his finger on his phone. No formal art training, no elaborate studio setup, and certainly no complicated artist statement. Just an idea, a screen, and the freedom to play.