'These, I, Singing in Spring’ | Jorge Mariño Brito

14 July - 15 August 2026

OPENING EVENT: Friday 17 July, 6-8pm
ARTIST TALK: Saturday 18 July, 4-5pm

Jorge Mariño Brito is a Cuban-born, Brisbane-based multidisciplinary artist working across oil painting, papermaking, and printmaking. His practice centres on male intimacy — how it is experienced, how it is suppressed, and how it survives in the space between the two.

Brito works from photographic archives, where historical images of men bathing, resting, and touching sit catalogued as military or social history but never acknowledged for the intimacy they contain.

“Capturing an image in film takes an instant, yet painting gives a way to stay inside the camera,” says Brito. “A small gesture from a photograph gets stretched across a large canvas, built up in oil, scraped back, rebuilt, until figures come forward, out of the dark, slowly, on their own terms. These paintings take time to build up, and they take time to see.”

Prior to beginning his artistic practice, Brito worked in the psychiatry and medical field. His studies act as a formative influence that shapes the conceptual and material foundations of his work. 

In 2025, Brito was selected as a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize and the Churchie Emerging Art Prize in Brisbane.

His debut exhibition brings together works that articulate a compelling vision of intimacy, vulnerability, and the embodied dimensions of human connection.

VIEW EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
VIEW EXHIBITION ESSAY BY BRADLEY VINCENT
VIEW MORE JORGE MARIÑO BRITO WORKS