Terri Brooks: Gems

Flinders Lane Gallery

October 19-31

On line exhibition

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Terri Brooks has been creating her unique paper and card boxes for over ten years, and has garnered international recognition.

Her distinctive art was recently celebrated in the northern Italian contemporary art magazine Sineresi as part of their series ‘The Exhibitions of Sineresi’ showcasing international artists. Their article La profondità del nulla (The Profundity of Nothing) featured a collection of both Brooks’ paintings and paper objects from 2003 to present.

In July, Terri also won the international Paper Bag Award Show at Cross Gallery, Queensland.

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Artist statement:

I have a long standing interest in art prior to the Renaissance. The paper works in ‘Gems’ follows on from my series of paper crowns, ‘Oligarchy’ 2017. Each crown explored a different element of decoration associated with rulership and power.

In the spirit of the almost surreal materialism of Pop artist Claes Oldenburg’s soft sculptures including electric fans, the paper works in ‘Gems’ are based on observations of stone cuts and metalsmith techniques associated with the Gothic period. A time when different ‘precious’ stones and metals denoted status and had spiritual associations.

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

High Cut, 2019, oil on paper, 32 x 26 x 13 cm.

Black Gold, 2020, oil on paper, 38 x 24 x 10 cm.

Red Coral, 2020, oil on paper, 38 x 26 x 17 cm.

Emerald White, 2019, oil on paper, 27 x 21 x 10 cm.

Sapphire White, 2019, oil on paper, 27 x 21 x 9 cm.

Royal Violet, 2019, oil on paper, 32 x 25 x 15 cm

Installation images:

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.