Gabrielle Brooks
Gabrielle Brooks is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working across photography, installation, performance, video, sculpture, and text. Her practice investigates the politics of the everyday, using overlooked materials and familiar objects to explore care, labour, gender, and cultural memory. Through processes of repetition, cataloguing, and close attention, her work examines how meaning accumulates through use, consumption, and daily acts of maintenance.
Recent projects focus on the visual language of food and domestic packaging, tracing the slippages between image, body, labour, and consumption. Moving fluidly between exhibition, publication, performance, and participatory formats, her research‑led practice is shaped by writing, conversation, and collaboration.
Brooks is currently a Lecturer in BA (Hons) Photography at Nottingham Trent University, where she teaches across all years of the programme and 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 approaches, and the changing role of images in contemporary culture.
She holds an MA in Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies from Central Saint Martins, UAL, and a BA (Hons) in Photography from Nottingham Trent University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she regularly delivers public talks, workshops, and collaborative projects with cultural and educational organisations.
Selected Work & Activities
2026
Walthamstow Arts Trail @ Billet Road Studios, London, UK - Group Exhibition (upcoming)
2025
Connections, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK — Group Exhibition
2024
Food Stores, Shutterhub Editions, UK — Publication
2023
Hand Signals, Garage Gallery, London, UK — Group Exhibition
2022
List Shopping, Frieze London — Spoken Word Performance
(as part of Abbas Zahedi’s Waiting With {Sonic Support})
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
Autography C19, Photofusion, London — Workshop Co‑Facilitator
2020
My House is an Island, ArtHouseHaus, London, UK — Group Exhibition
Big Space, Central Saint Martins, London — Group Exhibition
How to Organise an Exhibition, Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize, London — Panel Discussion
Autography C19, Photofusion, London — Workshop Co‑Facilitator
2019
SALON/19, Photofusion, London — Group Exhibition
MiAL 2019 Collection, TM Lighting Gallery, London — Group Exhibition
A Letter in Mind: Making Light Work, Gallery@OXO, London — Group Exhibition
NCL LDN, Long Gallery & Ex Libris, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle — Group Exhibition
Show One, Central Saint Martins, London — Degree Show / Group Exhibition
Autography, Photofusion, London — Workshop Co‑Facilitator
2018
Habitat, Creative Unions / Central Saint Martins, London — Collaborative Project / Exhibition
Studio Complex, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London — Group Exhibition
Appetite, Apiary Studios, London — Group Exhibition
Beyond, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland — Residency
Thinking Through Photography, London Transport Museum, London — Workshop
2016–2017
Photography Activities Leader, St Mungo’s, London — Community Engagement / Teaching
2016
Portrait Salon, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London — 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, Free Range Art & Design Festival, London, UK — Group Exhibition
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH CHEESE, 2022