Terri Brooks

Terri Brooks has chosen to construct work using a reduced or minimal palette and brush work. She is interested in duality and uses opposite elements including black - white, dot - line and horizontals - verticals. Line has always mattered and varies by brush weight or pressure, speed and transgressions from the true horizontal and vertical of the picture plain.

The meaning of her work lies in the methodology and her choice of materials, particularly evident in the artist's painterly patterning along with the employment of economy and directness intrinsic to the Australian tradition to ‘make do’. Natural environmental processes including weathering, architectural details and ‘found marks’ observed on surfaces in the city also inform the work. Each step of Brooks' painting process is intuitive and repetitive until the work is imbued with a sense of harmony and balance; a striving for ‘nonduality'.

Exhibition at Tacit include

2024 Beyond Threads

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Selected exhibitions

solo

2024 Beyond Threads - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2023 Painting is Architecture - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2022 Spectrum: the possibilities of light - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2020 Gems - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
The Profundity of Nothing - Sineresi Arte, Italy
Terri Brooks In Focus - Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth, WA
Terri Brooks at the Lounge - Art Lounge Interational, Ohio, USA
2019 Following a Path, 2014-19 - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Line & Weight - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Further Afield - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Principia - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Off the Grid - Piscinacommunale, Milan
It's the Thought That Counts - Kuntshuis LOOF, Netherlands
Terri Brooks - Aptos Cruz Galleries, Adelaide Hills
2014 Brown & Bone - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Over the Edges - Orexart, Auckland
2009 White Open - Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
New Works - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Painting forever and ever, part II - Harris Courtin Gallery, Sydney
2005 Painting forever and ever - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

group

2024 SALON Work on Paper - Tacit Art, Melbourne
VOID - Kunstraum Heidelberg, Germany
FEMME - Studio Gallery, Brisbane
FEMME - Studio Gallery, Sydney
This is the future of non-objective art - Atlantic Gallery, New York
2023 Artbox - Tacit Art, Melbourne
SUBSTRATE 23 - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Just Ideas - Cross Gallery, Bundaberg, Queensland
CURATING/CREATING - Abstract Projects, Paris
Bound Pigment: Celebrating Paint - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2022 SUBSTRATE 22 - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Tacit Voices - Tacit Art, Melbourne
SALON - Tacit Art, Melbourne
The Butterfly Effect - Poimena Gallery, Launceston
2021 6th Biennale of International Non-Objective Art - YBG/Art Thoughts, Melbourne
3, MUGA - Museum Gallery Heerenveen, Netherlands
Orbit - Poimena Gallery, Launceston
Of Colour & Light - WestEnd Artspace, Melbourne
Terri Brooks & Tracey Lamb - Cross Gallery, Bundaberg, Queensland
2020 The Paper Bag Award Show - Cross Gallery, Bundaberg
Image_Object - Poimena Gallery, Launceston
20[2020] - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Image_Object - Poimena Gallery, Launceston
2019 Salvaconnome (Saveas) - Piscinacommunale, Milan
30 x 30 - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Industrial Panorama - Gatakers Art Space, Maryborough
Breathe - Museum St Wendel, Germany
New Modern - Five Walls, Melbourne
Colour/Field 2 - Cross Gallery, Bundaberg
Colour/Field - Gatakers Art Space, Maryborough
The Bundaberg Art Prize - Cross Gallery, Bundaberg
2018 Of Colour & Light - WestEnd Artspace, Melbourne
The History Files - Piscinacommunale, Milan
The Exquisite Palette - St Luke, Melbourne
Small Works - Red Rock Regional Gallery, Cororooke
After London - Cross Gallery, Bundaberg
Relic & Other Stories - Byron School of Art
2017 Land/Line/Sea - Cross Gallery at Art Lacuna, London
A Secret Place - Gatakers Art Space, Maryborough
Shades of Grey III - Tacit Art, Melbourne
This Wild Song - The Art Room, Melbourne
This Matters - Galerie LOOF, Jubegga, Netherlands
Denfair - Convention Centre, Melbourne
Paintings, Installations - Objects, Galleria Kierat, Szczecin, Poland
Timelines - Boekercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
Gloss Over Rawness - WestEnd Artspace, Melbourne
Rotterdam Contemporary - World Trade Centre, Rotterdam
2016 ArtTheHague - Kunsthuis LOOF, The Hague
Of light and colour - Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
Shades of Grey II - Tacit Art, Melbourne
KunstRAI Amsterdam - Kunsthuis LOOF
Mail Art - Piscinacommunale, Milan
Purpuri - Space22, Milan
35 x 35cm Art Project - The Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens
2015 Direction Now - Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Direction Now - Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Wyndham Art Prize, Sydney
2014 Nero su bianco - Piscinacommunale, Milan
Direction Now - Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
Place - Aptos Cruz Galleries, Adelaide Hills
25th Anniversary exhibition - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair
Sedimentation - Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth
Direction Now - Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Drawing the Line - Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne
Portrait Show - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Gaffer Showcase - 236 Hollywood Rd, Hong Kong
2013 Summer Show - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Five - Form Studio & Gallery, Queanbeyan
Fleurieu Art Prize - South Australia
Gaffer Showcase - 236 Hollywood Rd, Hong Kong
Spring Decorative Art Fair - Battersea Park, London
Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair
London Art Fair
2012 Triple Happiness - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Art for a cause - Form Studio & Gallery, Queanbeyan
Five miles from the sea - Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
Summer Exhibition - Gaffer, Hong Kong
Space - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
ClimARTe Change - Form Studio & Gallery, Queanbeyan
Der glückliche Griff - Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany
Covering Ground - Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
Six Melbourne Artists - Gaffer, Hong Kong
2011 The River - Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Covering Ground - Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, California
Five Miles from the Sea - Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University, Melbourne
Wet Paint - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Distil - Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2010 Group - Harris Courtin Gallery, Sydney
Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize
2009 10.30 - Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
20+ - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Surface Tension - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Group - Harris Courtin Gallery, Sydney
2007 Pure - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Packsaddle - New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
2006 Melbourne Art Fair
Group - Harris Courtin Gallery, Sydney
Antipodean - kunstGUT Schmiedenfelde, Germany
Whiteout - Benalla Gallery
Whiteout - Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill
2005 Melbourne Art Fair
London Art Fair
Australian Abstraction - Aptos Cruz Gallery, Adelaide Hills

Collections

Albert Tucker Collection - Audi Victoria - BHP Ltd - BHP Petroleum - BP Australia - Buxton Contemporary - Cliff Top House - Four Points Sheraton Hotel Group, Sydney - Grand Chancellor Hotel Group, Melbourne - Henley Properties Group - Joseph Brown Collection - Kiribilli Apartment House - Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany - Kunstsammlung Schmiedenfelde, Germany - Macquarie Group Collection - Nauru House - RLD Kent Street Project - Sheraton Hotel Group, Melbourne - The Copelouzous Family Art Museum, Athens - The Melbourne House - Westin Hotel Group, Perth - Westpac Bank

Awards

2010 Doctor of Philosophy by research - University of Ballarat
2005 Master of Arts by research - University of Ballarat
1988 Graduate Diploma Fine Art - with distinction, RMIT
1987 Bachelor of Arts - with distinction, RMIT