Brook Andrew

Gun-Metal Grey, 2007


Gun Metal Grey a series of large-scale prints based on archival photographs of First Nations men and women taken in the late nineteenth century. The photographs are held in the collections of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, collections Brook has been studying since the mid 90’s. The printing technique developed by Brook and Stewart imagined an image capable of appearing and disappearing. After many trials and experiments printing capped half-tone dots onto heat set metallic foils this unique effect was eventually realised.

Art Basel Hong Kong, Encounters 2016

Seeing Time, 2022
Tolarno, Melbourne & Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris

This project allowed Brook to spend an extended period of time in the studio working directly with Stewart to compose a series of 16 large-scale screen printed paintings. Brook manipulated the process to explore a multitude of compositional possibilities, variations on a theme. For Artforum (January 2022) Helen Hughes observes that ‘this turn to abstraction may reflect the sense in which, in 2021 as opposed to earlier in the artist’s career, all the world’s museums now appear to be striving to decolonize, thereby allowing Andrew to zoom out and capture a bigger picture’. These work were shown at Tolarno in Melbourne and at Gallerie Obadia in Paris.