Exploring the physicality of paint and surface textures, Dr Terri Brooks continues her formal investigation of natural mark making. With a leanness of technique and an innate feeling for surface textures Brooks utilises her materials to produce rich and complex works that speak of creating art out of something humble and ordinary. Following a lineage of artists attracted to marks in nature - including Whistler, Pollock, Tuckson and Mondrian, ‘ a tradition equating marks in nature and marks made by an artist which goes back to Leonardo and his blotchy wall.’1

Brooks states of her practice, 'I am a city based landscape artist, the walls and walkways are my hills and valleys. My work is process based but the end result matters. The process is ephemeral, the outcome concrete..

She is in dialogue with her environment and in turn with her canvases, using her observations of the natural and built environment to determine her raw and instinctual impulses to place colour and line. Be it the effect or movement of wind and rain or the weathering effects of sun on a piece of corrugated tin, Brooks essentially is making a statement about the physical nature of disintegration and renewal.

Brooks has been selected as a finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize, The Kedumba Drawing Award, and the Alice Prize. Awarded the BP Acquisitive Award and an Australia Council Project Grant. Brooks work is represented in the Neubrandenburg Museum Collection, the Albert Tucker Collection, Macquarie Bank, Westpac Bank and many other corporate collections, as well as private collections in Australia, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and England.


www.terri-brooks.com.au
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