Terri Brooks: Of Colour and Light

Of Colour and Light

‘Of Colour and Light, Abstraction in Victoria’

Curated by Anna Prifti

Louise Blyton, Susie Leahy, Sue Beyer, Terri Brooks, Melinda Schawel,

Christine Healy, Agneta Ekholm, Wilma Tobacco, Kerrie Warren,

Anna Prifti, Vanessa Oter, Emma Langridge and Merryn Trevethan.

Opening Sat 11 June, 3 - 6pm @ YSG
Guest speaker: Charles Nodrum

Dates: 9 June - 18 July 2016
Yarra Sculpture Gallery 117 Vere St, Abbotsford

Cadmium Red Edge, 2013,oil, enamel and pencil on canvas, 122 x 84 cm.

Horizontal Lines, 2013, oil and enamel on paper, 91 x 66 cm.

Selected shots of the opening and installation

Artist Group Shot

Curator Anna Prifti and her work

Guest speaker Charles Nodrum

Terri Brooks

Louise Blyton

Emma Langridge

Susie Leahy

Merryn Trevethan

Since 1989 Terri Brooks has held over thirty solo shows in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the Netherlands as well as participating in numerous exhibitions including art fairs in the US, UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Poland and Hong Kong. Her work is in the Neubrandenburg Museum Collection, Germany, The Macquarie Group Collection, Westpac Bank, many other corporate and private collections around the world. For over ten years her work has been been incorporated into projects by leading interior designers and architects for exclusive and award winning interiors. In 2018 she completed two major commissions for the Westin, Perth and Sheraton Four Points, Sydney.

Line and Weight

'In her seminal 1979 essay ‘Grids’, Rosalind Krauss writes that ‘logically speaking, the grid extends, in all directions, to infinity’. The grid within an artwork is therefore ‘a tiny piece arbitrarily cropped from an infinitely larger fabric’. The paintings in Line and Weight convey both this sense of the infinite spatial grid and, through the building up of layers, the infinite and repetitious nature of time. Washed over, painted across, re-written, line by line.' Anna Dunhill 2019.

Over the Edge

`The neglected zones of urban existence – alley ways, awnings, walls, gutters and shutters – occupy a unique place within the history of painting. Perhaps inadvertently, artists have been depicting such insignificant elements as cracked window ledges or the dark recesses of architraves since the time of Giotto. Ubiquitous, utilitarian and often worn down, the marginal nature of such sites and the phenomenological questions they raise has dominated Terri Brooks practice for the past two decades and continues to inform her work today.' Phe Luxford, 2011.