Name: Minds Eye View
Start: 2026-04-04T04:00:00+11:00
Location: Briagolong Art Gallery

otally blind Australian artist Jeff McNeill invites audiences into an unseen world with Minds Eye View, opening at Briagolong Art Gallery Saturday 4 April 2026 at 2pm and running until 10 May 2026. This exhibition unfolds as a quiet conversation between memory, touch, and imagination—where painting becomes a way of seeing beyond sight.
Working in acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, McNeill draws inspiration from UK blind artist Sargy Mann and the guidance of mentor Betra Fraval through Art Access Victoria. His practice is deeply physical and contemplative. Blu Tack and elastics form gentle coordinates across the canvas, while fingers and brushes move through colour and texture, mapping experience into form.
Minds Eye View is an introduction to McNeill’s life on canvas. Each painting emerges from moments of stillness—listening, imagining, negotiating, and letting go. These works are neither abstract nor photographic, nor confined by traditional definitions of fine art. Instead, they are symbolic translations of lived experience, shaped by intuition and memory.
Standing before the easel, McNeill meditates on life, gathers stories from others, and constructs images in the mind’s eye. The result is a body of work that challenges assumptions about perception, inviting viewers to reconsider how art is seen, felt, and understood.