Terri Brooks: Line As Field

Terri Brooks
Studio Release
Yarra Bend Gallery

www.yarrabendgallery.com

Encompassing eight paintings I set aside for an exhibition in early 2026 at Tacit Galleries, Melbourne. After 25 years in operation, the gallery closed mid last year.

Catalogue

Wheat, 2024, oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm. AU$10,500
Road, 2025, oil on canvas, 137 x 122 cm. AU$8500
Point A to B, 2024, oil on canvas, 112 x 102 cm. AU$7000
Indian Yellow, 2025, oil on canvas, 137 x 133 cm. AU$8500
One Way, 2025, oil on canvas, 83 x 83 cm x 2. AU$8000
Line as Field, 2025, oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm x 2. AU$3000
Southern Cross, 2025, oil on paper on canvas, 44 x 44 cm. AU$1800

Black, White Crossing, 2025, oil on paper on canvas, 44 x 44 cm. AU$1800

All works are available for sale via my website: https://www.terri-brooks-artist.com/shop

All enquiries welcome.

Selected works

Wheat, 2024, oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm.

Road, 2025, oil on canvas, 137 x 122 cm.

Point A to B, 2024, oil on canvas, 112 x 102 cm.

Line as Field, 2025, oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm x 2.

Southern Cross, 2025,
oil on paper on canvas, 44 x 44 cm.

Black, White Crossing, 2025,
oil on paper on canvas, 44 x 44 cm.

In virtual

Indian Yellow, 2025, oil on canvas, 137 x 133 cm

One Way, 2025, oil on canvas, 83 x 83 cm x 2.

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.