State of Elevation

 


Relic, 2019 oil on paper, 42 x 24 x 13 cm.



White enamel, 2019 oil on paper, 40 x 30 cm.



White Enamel, and Relic.


Interior stylist, Nance Tripodi and her husband Mark, an engineer, work together as a team renovating significant heritage buildings in the Toorak and Malvern area of Melbourne. Conservation and maintaining historic features is important to the couple. This art craft federation home is their third. Nancy states that it was art that mostly inspired her interior aesthetic. They have an extensive art collection.




Text, Eliza O’Hare, Photography Shannon McGrath, Styling Nancy Tripodi, State of Elevation, Belle, September, p. 138.

Strata

Richeldis Fine Art
Barcelona
August, 2026
Mon - Fri 10 - 8pm By Appointment
Calle Sant Pere Mes Baix 64, Barcelona, 08003



Spanning textiles, painting, sculpture and ceramics, the exhibition features:

Ane Henriksen (b. 1951, Denmark), Emma Zhang (b. 1982, Wuhan, China), Terri Brooks (b. 1958, Australia), Dakyo Oh (b. 1991, Busan, South Korea), Rhian Jones (b. 1991, Wales) and Marea Hildebrand (b. 1989, Switzerland).


Selected works:

All photography by Francisco Nogueira



L: Ane Henriksen, textile;
R: Marea Hildebrand, ceramics.



L: Emma Zhang, painting;
R: Rhian Jones, ceramic



Emma Zhang



Dakyo Oh



Terri Brooks, painting; Rhian Jones, ceramics.



'Six Intergenerational Women Artists in Dialogue with Materiality, Landscape and Reduction. Borrowed from archaeology and geology, the title "Strata" refers to the successive layers through which landscapes, objects and histories are formed and understood. Across painting, textile, sculpture and ceramics, each artist approaches material as a site of discovery rather than description. Whether working with earth, paper, pigment, clay or fibre, their practices reveal meaning through sustained acts of making, where reduction, repetition and excavation become ways of seeing as much as methods of production. Together, these six artists remind us that the deepest understanding is rarely immediate—it is uncovered, layer by layer.' Richeldis Fine Art.



Titanium Stripes, 2025



Detail, Titanium Stripes, 2025.


Terri Brooks (b. 1958, Australia) has spent more than three decades developing a practice rooted in the landscape surrounding Melbourne’s Yarra River and Merri Creek. For Brooks, painting begins with walking. Sustained encounters with place are distilled into a radically reduced visual language, where the line becomes less a descriptive device than a record of movement, orientation and repeated encounter with the landscape. The conceptual origins of Brooks’ Line Marker series can be traced to Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking, where the line is understood not as representation but as the physical trace of an embodied encounter with place. Rather than depicting landscape, Brooks constructs an equivalent experience of it through rhythm, restraint and the measured discipline of the line. Constructed through successive layers of pigment, graphite and oil, Brooks’ paintings evolve through an extended process of addition, reduction and revision. Fine linear interventions traverse the surface with remarkable restraint, while subtle shifts in tone gradually reveal themselves only through prolonged looking. The exposed, hand-worked edges remain integral to each work, reinforcing the painting as a physical object rather than an illusionistic image. Brooks’ paintings recall a lineage of British modernism, where composition, material and objecthood are held in deliberate equilibrium, and beauty emerges through the careful calibration of proportion, rhythm and restraint. Central to the exhibition is Titanium Stripes (2026), a significant development of Brooks’ earlier Line Marker series. Enlarged to an architectural scale, the work extends a single formal proposition into a painting of remarkable quietness and precision, where repeated bands dissolve into subtle tonal variation. STRATA :Richeldis Fine Art.



Titanium, 2025.



Pencil Lines, 2025.



Brown Wedge, 2019.



The above works are part of a series of works based on an earlier painting 'The Line Marker'. Available exclusively through Richeldis Fine Art. Please contact the gallery for the full catalogue of works.

It's a great pleasure to be in this beautifully curated exhibition. It's also special for me to see my work in a traditional Spanish interior for the first time as I have some Spanish heritage.


Indian Yellow

 Currently on view at Studio Gallery Group, Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW.

https://www.studiogallerymelbourne.com.au/








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

The work changes in different light due to the high wax content and background saturation.




Black Side

A painting journey ...



Black Side, 2015, oil and pencil on canvas, 153 x 153 cm.



L: Black Side, R: Grey on Grey, 2016,
Principia, solo exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.


Black Side, in situ, 2026, private collection, USA.



The Edit Art Fair

Black Edge, 2024, oil on paper 42 x 34 cm, sold recently at Studio Gallery. Thank you!




On now the Edit Art Fair with four works @20% discount. Winter sales!




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




Black White Brown, 2023, oil on canvas, 112 x 102cm.




Oatmeal Grid, 2022, oil on canvas, 84 x 77 cm.




White Grid, 2022, gesso on hessian 32 x 24 x 14 cm.




Studio Gallery Art Fair: "The Edit runs from 19 June – 19 July, offering a highly attractive pricing structure with selected works available at up to 20% adjusted pricing." 


Design Talk

I am pleased to announce I now have work listed on the Artist Network of Design Talk. A Toronto based community consisting of nearly 12,000 interior designers across North America.

The site is a community and educational hub for established and emerging/aspirational interior designers. `Design Talk was founded by Stacey Cohen, who has owned and operated a luxury interior design firm, Stacey Cohen Design, for over 20 years.' Design Talk site.

​https://www.mydesigntalk.com/

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


'Design Talk Brand Partners are carefully selected industry leaders we genuinely trust and actively work with. Each partner is vetted for quality, dependable service, and strong profitability opportunities. When you connect with a Design Talk Brand Partner, you’re not just sourcing product, you’re building a relationship you can rely on project after project.' Design Talk site.

Artist Network

Terri Brooks

Some of the available works



Stepped Grid, 2025, in situ.



Checked Base, 2026, in situ.



White Linear Grid, 2026, in situ.



Southern Cross and Black White Crossing 2025,
oil on canvas and paper, 44 x 44 cm each


Evolve

Group exhibition
Studio Gallery Group
To June 25
https://www.studiogallerymelbourne.com.au/ 


'At a time when the world feels increasingly accelerated and uncertain, Evolve asks what it means to continue creating with intention. How do artists respond to external events, technological change, shifting pace, or instinctive creative pull? What patterns emerge over time, and what possibilities lie ahead?'


Video still, from a short video responding to questions proposed for the Evolve exhibition
YouTube link to full video


Selected Works



Halo, 2019, oil on paper, 34 x 29 x 9 cm.



White Check, 2023, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 cm.



Panel, 2021, oil on canvas, 112 x 107 cm.



Installation view, Panel, 2021 (R).
Photo by artist Louise Knowles.


The Edit

Art Fair
Studio Gallery Group
February, 2026


Photos featuring Panel, 2021, oil on canvas, 112 x 102 cm. All gallery works are included in the fair.
















Line As Field

Terri Brooks
Studio Release
Yarra Bend Gallery




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.


Windows

 A studio release of eight hessian boxes

A Yarra Bend Gallery production




Each work was additionally placed on site outdoors adding visual context to the impetus behind the pieces.



Installation view


Catalogue 


During the hanging of this collection I was reminded of one of my favourite buildings, Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, France. Hence the collection title of 'Windows'.


All works are available for sale via my website: https://www.terri-brooks-artist.com/shop or email to terri.brooks.artist.1@gmail.com.


Selected works:


On the Field, 2022.



Check Stripe 2022, Fairweather's studio.




Painting during wartime, 2022.




White Grid Box, 2022, gesso on hessian, 36 x 34 x 27 cm.



White Striped Box, 2022, gesso on hessian, 26 x 26 x 18 cm.




White Grid Pattern, 2023, gesso on hessian, 22 x 14 x 9 cm.


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