Terri Brooks

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

Terri Brooks' Lounge Show

Art Lounge International
Ohio, USA
April 2020

Brown Weft

Oil and enamel on canvas

91 x 71 cm; 35.8 x 27.9 in.

Ships from Australia.

USD 2450

I was excited to be invited by the team at TRiCERA to join the Tokyo based online art site.

World's Art as One
TRiCERA's activities are not limited to domestic; we provide a system to support developing countries by selling their hidden artworks to the world. Remove barriers for all artists in the world, "Creativity has No Boundaries" - excerpt Tricera website

Website: https://www.tricera.net/

Below are some included works:

Waves, 2016 oil on canvas, 122 x 153 cm.

Black Weave, 2018, oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm.

Horizontal Whites, 2020, oil on cardboard, 45 x 35 cm.

Brown White Box, 2020, oil and pencil on cardboard, 45 x 35 cm. Angel view.

Art Lounge International

I have happily up-scaled my collection of paintings available at Art Lounge International including the works below. Shipping from Melbourne.

Based in Ohio the site specialises in reductive and new modern works.

Brown Stripes, 2019, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm.

White Square, 2019, oil on canvas 76 x 71 cm.

emergent magazine

émergent Magazine is a printed and internationally distributed publication focusing on contemporary painting.

Guest Editor Emma North, Richeldis Fine Art, along with articles on Park Seo-Bo and Pat Steir.

émergent brings together both established and developing contemporary painters. émergent can be found in institutions and galleries around the world such as MoMA PS1 in New York and the Tate Modern in London.

Emergent Magazine arrived in the post! Very happy to be included. Some pages....

Kathryn Marshall, Terri Brooks, guest editor, Emma North, Richeldis Fine Art, Emergent Magazine UK, 177-87.

20 (2020)

March 4 - 15

TACIT ART
123a Gipps Street, Collingwood, Victoria
Opening Wednesday March 4, 6.30-8 pm

A group exhibition of selected artists as part of Tacit's 20 year anniversary. Each artist was given a 20 x 20" (51 x 51 cm) canvas to work with.

Brown Plain, 2020, oil on canvas, 51 x 51 cm.

Installation image

Rose Moxham, John Hockings and Terri Brooks

Opening Friday 6th March 6pm
Through March
Cross Gallery
Bundaberg QLD
https://www.cross-gallery1.com/

Rose Moxham

John Hockings

Terri Brooks

A6 Murals Worldwide

A project by Lydia Wierenga's (Netherlands)

Mural No. 18
January 30, 2020
Melbourne, Australia

www.terri-brooks-artist.com

Each artist has a set of instructions to create the mural and document it.

Images: close up of the mural and in situation.

Update book published!

Anke Roder, 'Lydia Wierenga, A6 Murals Worldwide', Terri Brooks, Lydia Wierenga NL, p. 18.

Image_Object

curated by Paul Snell
Opening January 16
Poimena Gallery
Mona Foma 2020
Launceston
Tasmania

This survey exhibition brings together a broad range of mediums and approaches to abstraction and includes both local, national and internationally recognised practitioners.

Exhibiting Artists

Jake Walker, Tineke Porck, Lev Khesin, Billy Gruner, Paul Moncrieff, Suzie Idiens, Sarah Keighery, Carolyn Wigston, Anya Pesce, Louise Blyton, Diane Scott, Stephen Wickham, Aaron Martin, Deb Covell, Lisa Sharp, Eloise Kirk, Steven Carson, Dan Rocha, Anne Mestitz, Terri Brooks, Pia Løye, Nicola Staeglich, Ivan De Menis, Ryllton Viney, Lisa Patroni, Michael Muruste, Paul Snell, Noah Spivak, Patrizia Biondi, Molly Thomson, Marlene Sarroff, Ian Wells, Monique Lacey, Paul Bishop, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Magda Cebokli, Michelangelo Russo, Jennifer Jabu, Pim Piët , Susan Andrews, Kevin Lund, David Marsden, Jamin Kluss, Ilkka Parni, Jeff Conefry, Brent Hallard, Louise Gresswell.

Image_ Object, examines the relationship between the visual and the physical in non-objective works. Most artworks, it can be argued, are fusions of imagery and objecthood. This exhibition reveals an increasing emphasis upon texture and surface qualities. The predilection for large areas of undifferentiated or barely fluctuating colour, the exploitation of the edge, of the shaped or moulded support, and the physical juxtaposition of disparate or borrowed elements.

High-rise, 2019, oil on paper, 27 x 18 x 21 cm.

Installation image

Art Lounge International

I have some paper works available through Art Lounge International. Based in Ohio the site specialises in reductive and new modern works.

What Remains, White, 2019, oil on paper, 24 x 22 x 15 cm. Angle view

Beige White, 2019, oil on card, 48 x 35 cm.

What Remains, Striped, 2019, oil on paper, 34 x 12 x 7 cm. Angle view

Salvaconnome (Saveas)

Piscinacomunale
Milan
December 13

Everyone takes a photo with the phone but few people take photos

Curated by Adriano Pasquali in 2009 and now in 2019

Exhibiting artists:

Local walk

30x30

30th Anniversary Exhibition
Flinders Lane Gallery
To December 21
Level 1, Nicholas Building
Swanston Street
Melbourne

FLG has been exhibiting contemporary and Indigenous artworks for 30 years, supporting a diverse range of practices by some of Australia's leading artists.

Cemented within Melbourne's vibrant art scene, this year has been a particularly important one - with the gallery relocating from its original site and onto level one of the Nicholas Building, a thriving creative precinct on the corner of Flinders Lane and Swanston Street.

To celebrate this anniversary milestone, we have invited our represented artists to create an artwork that is 30 x 30 - either cms or inches. Each artwork is indicative of the artist's practice and inspired by Melbourne, showcasing the varied yet strong creative talents of the artists of FLG.

Puff, 2019, oil on paper, 32 x 31 x 14 cm.

Artist statement:

'In late January a blackbird flew into my garden to forage as they occasionally do. The species was introduced to Australia in the 1850s. Nevertheless I enjoy their gentleness. The appearance of this particular bird however has stayed with me as it had one white tail feather. Was it a genetic mutation? An environmental consequence of being in a foreign land? Its lack of symmetry as is usual in bird tail feathers lead me to consider the boundary or ‘threshold’ of decoration and composition. What is the minimal point where compositional dialogue commences? It led a series of ‘paper paintings’ called the Blackbird Series. ‘Puff’ is part of this series and its shape relates to native fungus growing near the Yarra River.'

Installation photo, Flinders Lane Gallery

Opening speeches at Flinders Lane Gallery

Since 1989 Terri Brooks has held over twenty 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.