Brooke Thompson

Title; Colo
Dimensions; 67 x 98cm
Materials; ink, wax and rice paper

ARTIST STATEMENT
The Colo drawings are a response to the scrappy, dry sclerophyll bushland around the Colo River (which lies at the foot of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney). In terms of myth and reality it is an attempt to view this landscape, the Australian bush, without preconceived notions of order.
These works of ink on rice paper evolve by allowing the seepage of the preceding drawing to become the beginning of the next whilst capturing the scene with the accumulation of marks. One drawing leads on to another and this process of repetition suggests that it is to be about the act of forming rather than form itself. The drawings have been stuck together with wax so to add another opportunity for randomness and chance to play its part in the portrayal of this landscape.

QUALIFICATIONS
2006+ College of Fine Arts - enrolled in Bachelor Art Education
2005 National Art School – Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons Drawing)

GROUP SHOWS
2007 Imagining Australia, Prato, Italy
2007 Watermark, Mary Place, Paddington
2006 Absolute Drawcard, National Art School
2006 Transitions, Mary Place, Paddington
2006 Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Xavier Art Space, St Vincent’s
2005 Honours Show, National Art School
2005 Exchange Square, hosted by Friends of National Art School, ASX
2005 The Honours Group, Art Sydney 05, Paddington
2005 A Season of Twelve, Mary Place, Paddington
2004 Graduation Show, National Art School
2004 Drawing Week, National Art School

SOLO SHOWS
2005 Peregrinations at Low Tide, Gallery East, Clovelly
2004 Recent Prints, Highvalley Wines, Mudgee
2003 Prints for the Styx, Vinyl Lounge, Elizabeth Bay

CONTACT DETAILS
4 High St, Waverley 2024 NSW - 02 9389 7618 or 0419 771390
brooke3871@hotmail.com

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