Rhett Brewer has worked and exhibited as a professional artist and art lecturer since 1981. During this time his work has evolved stylistically towards Realism and a mostly urban subject matter.

Underpinning his work lies a Romantic sensibility, in Rhett's words 'Sometimes I see poetry and significance in the theatricality of street lights and other forms of artificial lighting picking objects out in a dark street. Sometimes it's a big late afternoon sky with dark silhouetted clouds cutting shapes in the graded hues of a summer twilight. Sometimes it's a shaft of light splitting two enormous rain clouds above a busy motorway'.

Rhett has an extensive exhibition history both in Australia and overseas and is represented in many public and private collections including Parliament House, Canberra, O.E.C.D. Offices, Paris, Ballarat Court House, Sydney Institute of Technology, Art Bank, Brian Nylan Geometric Art Collection and the Transfield Collection.