Gabrielle Brooks is a multidisciplinary artist. Working across photography, sculpture, video, and text, her practice investigates the politics of the everyday- using overlooked materials and familiar objects to explore care, labour, gender, and cultural memory. Recent projects examine the traces left on domestic packaging, the visual language of food, and the slippages between image, body, and consumption.

Gabrielle teaches at Nottingham Trent University. She leads the cross-pathway theory module History, Context and Near Future of Photography. Her teaching brings critical theory into dialogue with creative practice, with a focus on inclusive pedagogy, speculative thinking, and the changing role of the image in contemporary culture.

She holds an MA in Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies from Central Saint Martins and a BA in Photography from NTU. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has delivered public talks and workshops through a range of cultural and educational institutions, bringing her practice into dialogue with wider audiences.

Selected Work & Activities

2025
• Connections, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK [Group Exhibition]

2024
• Food Stores, Shutterhub Editions, UK [Publication]
• Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University [Teaching]
• Hourly Paid Lecturer (HPL), BA Photography, De Montfort University, Leicester [Teaching]
• Hourly Paid Lecturer (HPL), Visual Communications (Photography), Nottingham Trent University (2019–2024) [Teaching]

2023
• Hand Signals, Garage Gallery, London, UK [Group Exhibition]

2022
• List Shopping, Frieze London – as part of Abbas Zahedi’s Waiting With {Sonic Support} [Spoken Word Performance]
• Stuff About Printing (and Other Stuff), Arts University Bournemouth (online) [Guest Lecture]

2021
• Beyond the Binary, ] Gaze [ Contemporary Art Space, Shrewsbury, UK [Group Exhibition]
• Promoting your Work, Arts Emergency (online) [Guest Lecture]
• AutographyC19, Photofusion, London, UK [Workshop Co-Facilitator]

2020
• My House is an Island, ArtHouseHaus, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• Big Space, Central Saint Martins, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• How to… Organise an Exhibition, Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize, London [Panel Discussion]
• AutographyC19, Photofusion, London, UK [Workshop Co-Facilitator]

2019
• SALON/19, Photofusion, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• MiAL 2019 Collection, TM Lighting Gallery, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• A Letter in Mind: Making Light Work, Gallery@OXO, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• NCL LDN, Long Gallery and Ex Libris, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK [Group Exhibition]
• Show One, Central Saint Martins, London, UK [Degree Show / Group Exhibition]
• Autography, Photofusion, London, UK [Workshop Co-Facilitator]

2018
• Habitat, Creative Unions / Central Saint Martins, London, UK [Collaborative Project / Exhibition]
• Studio Complex, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• Appetite, Apiary Studios, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• Beyond, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK [Residency]
• Thinking Through Photography, London Transport Museum, London, UK [Workshop Delivery]

2016 – 2017
• Photography Activities Leader, St Mungo’s Housing Association, London, UK [Community Engagement / Teaching]

2016
• Portrait Salon, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK [Group Exhibition]
• Portrait Salon, The Reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [Group Exhibition]

2012 – 2013
• Photography Project Manager, Parklife, Rother District Council, Bexhill, UK [Project Management / Community Engagement]

2011
• XV at Nash, Nash Interiors, Nottingham, UK [Group Exhibition]
• XV, Freerange Art and Design Festival, London, UK [Group Exhibition]