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More Information about Brook Andrew

Brook Andrew is a conceptually driven artist who challenges cultural and historical perception, using installation, text and image to comment on local and global issues regarding race, consumerism and history. Apart from drawing inspiration from public media and found archival collections, Andrew travels nationally and internationally to work with communities and museum collections to comment and create new work reflecting objects, concepts and local thought.

Artist
BROOK ANDREW
Local Memory 2011
Installation view, day
Central Park, Sydney
Artist
BROOK ANDREW
Ancestral worship 2010
Installation view, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Commissioned by Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
for 21st Century: Art in the First Decade December 2010 - April 2011

Artist
BROOK ANDREW
OF CREATION 2001
Installation view
Asialink Residency
New Dehli, India
Artist
BROOK ANDREW
Colony 2007
Lord Burgher King, the Messenger & the Executioner
Performance
Installation view
The Hague Historic Museum
The Hague Sculpture 2007
The Netherlands

His work with archival material has created debate and new thought surrounding contemporary philosophies regarding memory, its conceptual and visual potency linking local with international histories. By co-opting the tools of advertising, the media, museums and Wiradjuri language and culture, Brook Andrew's art challenges the limitations imposed by power structures, historical amnesia, stereotyping and complicity.

Laura Murray Cree, Brook Andrew in 'Artist Profile'. Pp 50-59. Issue 11, 2010. Sydney. Australia.

Recently exhibited as part of 2010 Biennale of Sydney Brook Andrew's Jumping Castle War Memorial was inspired by his research in museums and theme parks, and the collection from the Musee Des Confluence, Lyon.

Artist
BROOK ANDREW
Jumping Castle War Memorial 2010
PVC vinyl
7 x 7 x 4 m
Installation view, Cockatoo Island
17th Biennale of Sydney - THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age

Andrew has also recently finished a number of commissions, the first is a portrait of Professor Marcia Langton for the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and the second is a large-scale work 'The Cell' commissioned by the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney.

Artist
BROOK ANDREW
The Cell 2010
PVC with fan blower and jumpsuits
3 x 12.5 x 6 m
Artist
BROOK ANDREW
The Cell 2010
PVC with fan blower and jumpsuits
3 x 12.5 x 6 m
Entry detail

Artist
BROOK ANDREW
The Cell 2010
PVC with fan blower and jumpsuits
3 x 12.5 x 6 m
Interior detail
Artist
BROOK ANDREW
The Cell 2010
PVC with fan blower and jumpsuits
3 x 12.5 x 6 m
Interior detail

...Andrew's practice also reveals that while we often think of globalization as homogenizing cultures and meanings, individual perspectives remain diverse... it is [his] refusal to be didactic that underscores his maturity'.

Rawling, A. Brook Andrew: Archives of the Invisible in 'Art Asia Pacific'. Issue 69 May/June 2010. New York. USA.

Artist
BROOK ANDREW
18 Lives in Paradise (the installation) 2011
Installation view
Artspace, Sydney
Artist
BROOK ANDREW
18 Lives in Paradise (the installation) 2011
Installation view
Artspace, Sydney

Andrew was the recipient of the Australia Council ISCP residency, NYC 2008–09, South Project at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo residency, Santiago 2006, Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship 2001. Publications include Future Images 2010, Theme Park 2008, Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand 2008, Eye to Eye 2007 and Hope and Peace 2005.

Awards and Grants
2008-09 ISCP residency NYC. Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
2006 New Work. VACB. Australia Council
2005 Peoples Choice. Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. Gold Coast. Queensland
2004 2004 Recipient, Works on Paper. Telstra National ATSI Art Award. Northern Territory
2002 Feature Film Development Grant. Australian Film Commission
Research Grant. College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. Sydney
2001 Fellowship. Australia Council for the Arts
2000 Professional Development Grant. Australia Council
Metro Screen and the Australian Film Commission. Sydney
1998 Recipient of The 1998 Kate Challis RAKA Art Award. Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne. Victoria
Metro Screen and SBS, Sydney
1997 New Work Grant. Australia Council
1996 Professional Development Grant. Australia Council
1993 Mary Alice Evatt Award: Artspace, Sydney
Artist Residency / Fellow
2010 Honorary Fellow. Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. The University of Melbourne.
http://www.culturalconservation.unimelb.edu.au/
2008 ISCP residency NYC. Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts
2006 South Project. TRANS VERSA. Museum of Contemporary Arts, Galeria Metropolitana and Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2005-06 Honorary Fellow. School of Anthropology, Geography and Environment Studies. University of Melbourne
2005 Sydney College of the Arts, University of NSW. Sydney
2002 Intersections. University of Hawaii, School of Art. Hawaii Bundanon Trust. Nowra. Australia
2000-01 Sanskriti Kendra. New Dehli, India. Asialink Residency
2000 Gasworks and Goldsmith College, London University, London
1999 Northern Editions, Northern Territory Uni. Darwin, Northern Territory
1997 Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Exeter, UK

Collections