Brook Andrew works with installation, mixed-media, neon and video.
Andrew challenges cultural and historical perception, using text and
image to comment on local and global issues
regarding race, consumerism and history. Andrews work often dives
into the political and social, not only challenging historical and
personal conventions, but also allowing for other possibilities in
regards to the gaze and the consumer implicit activity in global
issues. These themes inspire Andrew to travel locally and
internationally, actively visiting museum collections and local
communities to research and make new work.

His recent mixed-media works The Island series draw on Prussian
naturalist Blandowskis etchings of Australia from the 1850s (sourced
from The Haddon Library, Cambridge, UK) that portray a wild and
romantic Australia.

After his Australia Council ISCP New York residency, Brook is creating
new work for '8 Months Of War' at Detached, Hobart, and a solo
exhibition at Tolarno galleries, Melbourne.

8 MONTHS OF WAR and Jumping Castle


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