Terri Brooks: July 2020

The Paper Bag Award Show

Cross Gallery
Opening July 18

Electra Street

Bundaberg, Qld.
https://www.cross-gallery1.com/

My bags are each made from twelve supermarket brown paper lunch bags that have been pulled apart and reconstructed. They are rock hard.

Paper Bag, 2020, oil on paper, 21 x 28 x 8 cm.

The bag ‘painting’ is based on a memory of sugar coated candy. When I was at high school I had a part time job bagging candy for Coles in Bourke Street, Melbourne.

Many thanks to the award judge John Greenhaigh for selecting 'Paper Bag' as the winner!

There are so many great entries from around the world.

Black Stripe Bag, 2020, 21 x 25 x 14 cm.

This bag painting is based on the memories of the bags you get when you buy fine art materials.

Clinton Cross in the NewsMail, June 10, Bundaberg Qld.

NewsMail, June 10, Bundaberg Qld.

Rhylea Millar, 'The cat is out of the paper bag: Exhibition winner announced'

DailyMail Bundaberg, July 23.

Article excerpts

Then and Now

Artist' Luck, 2020, mobile selfie.

Frederick McCubbin. Down on His Luck, 1889, oil on canvas, 115 x 153 cm (detail).

These times are being likened to the 1930s Great Depression. The 1890s were also a time of Depression after the Land Boom. I live where the Australia Impressionists painted.

No more 5 pm, 2020, mobile selfie.

John Brack, Collins St, 5p.m, 1955, oil on canvas, 114.8 × 162.8 cm. NGV collection.

‘...Brack depicts Melbourne’s financial centre hub at the end of the working day, uniformly dressed office-workers stream homeward...’ NGV website

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.