Belem Lett: For Your Eyes Only

BELEM LETT — For Your Eyes Only

18 July – 8 August 2026 at SYRUP, 20 Farr Street, Marrickville. Thursday – Saturday, 11am–4pm. (SYRUP 019.)

For Your Eyes Only presents a new series of paintings and sculptures exploring colour, light and composition through abstraction. Through the use of quintessential broad brush strokes Lett's most recent works trace the movement of light through space and time.

BIO

Belem Lett is a Sydney-based painter who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally and has participated in numerous art fairs including Sydney Contemporary, Melbourne Art Fair, Spring 1883 (Melbourne and Sydney) and Den Fair. Lett has won the Omnia Art Prize (2022), Kangaroo Valley Art Prize (2022), Hazelhurst Work on Paper Award (Emerging Artist Prize 2019) and the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2010), and has been a finalist in many awards including the Sir John Sulman Prize (2025, 2023), Mosman Art Prize, Waverley Art Prize, the Blake Prize and the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award.

In 2011 Lett held a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Lett was also the founding Director and curator of Wellington St Projects, Sydney (2012–2019). Lett is represented by Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.