'Hollywoodridge' | Jake Moss

10 March - 11 April 2026

Opening Event: Friday 13 March, 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday 21 March, 11am 

'Hollywoodridge' is Jake Moss’ debut solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art, presented as a film production timeline. Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, video, and sound, the exhibition unfolds as an autobiographical narrative. It traces Moss’ creative formation through a lens that is simultaneously playful and unflinchingly honest.

At first glance, the works are vibrant, inviting, and comical. On closer inspection, they reveal the intimate and unfiltered realities of Moss’ upbringing in public housing in Woodridge, Brisbane. His is a worldview deeply influenced by scarcity, homelessness and fracture. Humour and colour operate as entry points, drawing viewers into deeper reflections on class, ambition, and self-determination.

The exhibition draws on the mythology of Hollywood, a place Moss felt profoundly distant from in childhood, yet one that symbolised escape, possibility, and transformation. ‘Hollywoodridge’ collapses the distance between glamour and reality, weaving them into a narrative of creative ambition.

‘Hollywoodridge resists expectation and stereotype. It is not about where I come from as an idea, but about treating that life with the seriousness, scale, and care usually reserved for cinema.’
— Jake Moss, 2026

Moss is a self-taught artist whose practice spans independent, self-financed projects across visual art, theatre, film, and publishing. His paintings are energetic and chaotic, yet always intentional, seeking personal connection with the viewer while drawing direct influence from the life, art and energy that surrounded him growing up in Woodridge.

'Hollywoodridge' positions autobiography not as confession, but as production. It is a carefully constructed, defiantly ambitious work that reframes origin stories as sites of creative power rather than limitation.

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