
Painting While Rolling: Art, Survival, and the Power of Movement with Brett Ashby
What happens when a cancer survivor turns performance art into a lifeline, painting portraits while riding a skateboard?
Brett Ashby is an Australian contemporary visual artist with more than two decades of international practice, known for his live "painting while rolling" performances that blend balance, fear, and storytelling into a single physical act. He's painted figures including Barack Obama and Princess Diana, and today speaks openly about surviving cancer, men's mental health, and how art became more than decoration in his own life, it became survival.
In this episode, Brett shares…
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