Gabrielle Brooks is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans the mediums of photography, video, and sculpture. She graduated with an MA in MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies from Central Saint Martins in 2019 and a BA (Hons) in Photography from Nottingham Trent University in 2011.
Her practice explores gendered relationships to food, and the domestic environment through a duality of humour and uncertainty provoked by unexpected interactions. Works such as Kitchen Table, 2019, and Fruit Studies, 2020, seek to question feminine food archetypes and women’s place within the home.
Since 2011 her work has been exhibited nationally. A selection of recent exhibitions and activities include; Hand Signals at Garage Gallery, List Shopping, spoken word performance at Frieze London, as part of Abbas Zahedi’s Waiting With {Sonic Support}, Studio Complex at Tate Modern (Tate Exchange), NCL LDN at the Ex Libris and Long Gallery, Newcastle upon which toured to King’s Cross, London in 2020; SALON/19, Photofusion, London; MiAL 2019 Collection, TM Lighting Gallery, London; A Letter in Mind: Making Light Work, Gallery @Oxo, Apiary Studios, London; My House is an Island, Arthousehaus, London and Beyond the Binary, at ] Gaze [ Contemporary Art Space, Shrewsbury, UK.
In 2018 she was invited to participate in the Beyond residency at Allenheads Contemporary Arts in Northumberland. The research undertaken on this residency contributed to Habitat, a Creative Unions funded group project, produced with 8 other selected artists.
Exhibitions:
2023
Hand Signals, group show, Garage Gallery, London, UK.
2021
Beyond the Binary, group show, ] Gaze [ Contemporary Art Space, Shrewsbury, UK.
2020
My House is an Island, group show, ArtHouseHaus, London, UK.
Big Space, group show, Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
2019
SALON/19, group show, Photofusion, London, UK.
MiAL 2019 Collection, group show, TM Lighting Gallery, London, UK.
A Letter in Mind: Making Light Work, group show, Gallery@OXO, London, UK.
NCL LDN, group show, Long Gallery and Ex Libris, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Show one, group show, Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
2018
Habitat (funded by Creative Unions), collaborative work, Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
Studio Complex, group show, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK.
Appetite, group show, Apiary Studios, London, UK.
2016
Portrait Salon, group show, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London.
Portrait Salon, group show, The Reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery, Tokyo.
2011
XV at Nash, group show, Nash Interiors, Nottingham.
XV at Freerange Art and Design Festival, group show, London.
activites
2023
HPL (Hourly Paid Lecturer), Visual Communications (Photography), Nottingham Trent University (2019 - present)
2022
List Shopping, spoken word performance at Frieze London, 2022, as part of Abbas Zahedi’s Waiting With {Sonic Support}
AUB x Genesis Explores: Stuff About Printing (and Other Stuff), lecture, Arts University Bournemouth (online)
2021
Promoting your Work, lecture, Arts Emergency (online)
AutographyC19, co-facilitator, Photofusion, London, UK
2020
How to… Organise an Exhibition, panel discussion, Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize, London.
AutographyC19, co-facilitator, Photofusion, London, UK.
2019
Autography, co-facilitator, Photofusion, London, UK.
2018
Beyond, residency, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Hexham, Northumberland, UK.
Thinking Through Photography, workshop, London Transport Museum, London, UK.
2016 – 2017
Photography activities leader, St Mungo’s Housing Association, London, UK.
2012 – 2013
Photography project manager, Parklife, Rother District Council, Bexhill.
Education:
Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
September 2017 – June 2019
MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
Oct 2008 – Jun 2011
BA Photography
RESEARCH AREAS:
Changes to the Home Post-1945; Intersections between Photography and Philosophy; Sigmund Freud: the uncanny, psychosexual development, art and psychoanalysis; Nietzsche: Übermensch; Feminism; Feminist art of the 1970’s – today, women artists; The History of Taxidermy; Photography and Death; Photographic theory: Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger.