Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1987GB. Lives and works in Brighton)

Brookes makes paintings in response to her relationships, memories and observations. She layers and fuses these sources in a collage-like process toward forming intuitively worked paintings as her primary medium. Through painting, she says she develops a heightened awareness of her body, actions and thoughts, which can sometimes translate into what she terms ‘unsettling’ elements in her work.

Solo exhibitions

2019: The Divorce of Fanny and Mike, Studio 17, Stavanger
2016: First date for three years, The Chopping Block, London
2011: Descent Of Life, Art Work Space Gallery, London

Group exhibitions

2019: Feast of Fools, Hi10 Gallery, Skien; THE DEAL, a visual dialogue across the channel, Brussels, Belgium - Co-organiser and co-curator
2018: WMA biennial 2018, Worthing Museum and Art gallery, West Sussex; Les Anges Rebelles, L’Atelier Hectolitre, Brussels; Baring Teeth, Gallery 98, Kent; A current under sea, Pie Factory, part of Journeys with the Wasteland, partnership with the Turner Contemporary, Margate; The River Project, Sun Pier House Gallery, Kent
2017: The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Brussels; Painting show, Brixton railway arches, London; Turps studio painters 2017 show, London; The shape of things, Chatham; 48hrs, Brick cube warehouse space, London
2016: New slang, Den-holm studios, Melbourne; Turps studio program show, Bermondsey, London; Smaller, The Larger, Sobering gallery, Paris; Fruit salad, Mercer Chance Gallery, London; Turps Banana interim show, Aylesbury Estate, London; Check Your Pockets, cueB gallery, London
2015: Summer Dream, joint show with Elizabeth McCarten, Mercer Chance Gallery, London; Sculptures on sale in the Barbican shop, in conjunction with the Magnificent Collections exhibition
2014: Hidden city, old BBC building, Marylebone High Street, London
2013: Prince's Drawing School final year show, Charlotte road, London; Christie's One Night, Prince's Drawing School final year show, Christie's, London; Final Flight, William Road Gallery, London; The Wing Asylum, group show at the Asylum Chapel, London
2012: The Wing Assignment, group show at Red Bull studios, London; Flint Art Fair, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
2011: Totem, group show at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, London; Christie's Multiplied Art Fair w/ Print Club, London; Exquisite Corps, 315 4th Ave, Brooklyn; Pick Me Up, Somerset house, London; Dessin etc., Analix Forever, Geneva
2010: Plastic festival, Brussels, Belgium; Deep End, Macbeth, London; Take Away, Outside World Gallery, London; Save Our Souls, Nicholls and Clarke building, London; Camberwell degree show, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College
2009: Fact and Fiction, Arts Bar, London; Draw a Plan, Build a House, The Bunhouse, London
2008: The Rat Show, Rat Records, Camberwell, London; Best Before, Butterfly walk, London
2007: Foundation degree show, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College

Awards & residencies

2018: Artist in residence, Borgo Pignano
2017: Artist in residence, Borgo Pignano
2015: Artist in residence, Dumfries house, Scotland UK; Artist in residence, Dumfries house, Scotland

Press & publications

December 2016: Painting featured in Elle magazine UK

Collections

Work in the collection of HRH Prince of Wales in Dumfries house

Work in the collection of HRH Prince of Wales

Work in the collection of Sir Michael Moritz

Education

2015-2017: Turps Banana studio painting program
2012-2013: Drawing year postgraduate diploma, The Royal Drawing School, London.
2007-2010: BA (Hons) Illustration, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College.
2006-2007: Foundation degree, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College.