Trevor Flett was born in 1950 and raised in West Footscray in the western suburbs of Melbourne. He first discovered he could draw at the age of six when his Sunday school teacher in Somerville Road, Kingsville asked the class to draw a bible reading. While everybody adopted a conventional stick figure approach, Trevor captured the teachers attention when he drew Jesus with a beard, robe and a form complete with shadow. "Look what little Trevor has done" left an indelible mark on his creative capabilities.
Later Trevor completed the Art course at Footscray Institute of Technology before a Diploma of Art and Design at Prahran Technical College.
As a former Creative Director of FutureBrand FHA his company designed the emblem, bid books, look and feel imagery for the "best ever" Games for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Other significant design and images include Telstra, Orica, BHP Billiton, Freehills, Myer, Cricket Australia, Crown and AFL brands to name just a few.
Trevor successfully exhibited his fine art painting works in 1991 at Elaine Galleries in his first "one man exhibition". His art has been involved with many group exhibitions including a group of fellow artists who go out into the Australian Outback to draw, paint and exhibit their works annually. This Artback Group has inspired Trevor to show his works. He is a regular contributor in the Archibald and in previous years has painted fellow artist Max Robinson - the man who designed the $10 note and Les Twentyman – a high profile youth community worker.
Other solo exhibitions include:
• Goya Galleries
A Body of Fluid Energy
14 - 30 Aug 2002
• Twenty/20 Exhibition
Footscray Community Arts Centre
15 July - 8 Aug 2004
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Art of Australia with Indigenous Artists
July 2006
• Back2Front Exhibition Walker St Gallery
1 - 26 October 2007
• man oF LETTers Exhibition Walker St Gallery
2 - 25 June 2008
• 2009 Artback Gallery, Wentworth NSW.
• 2009 Flows Gallery Abbotsford Melbourne.
• 2009 Stencil + Street Inspired Art, July, Ochre Gallery Collingwood.
• 2010 Artouche Exhibition, March Stephen McLaughlan Gallery Swanston
Street Melbourne.
Trevor has been a regular radio commentator on the images of Melbourne icons and the visual landscape and former Vice President and Director of the AFL team the Western Bulldogs.
He is a father of two daughters, Emily Flett and Vanessa Flett. Trevor lives and works in his Abbotsford studio in Melbourne. His ambition is to balance his creative energies between his commercial and fine art with a philosophy that "creativity has no boundaries", and evolve into a full time practising fine artist.
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