Brook Andrew

Language/Language group: Wiradjuri
Websitewww.brookandrew.com
Instagram: @brook_andrew_artist


In a new series of collages, I have worked directly with an original edition (c. 1860) of engravings from the complete works of the British pictorial satirist and painter William Hogarth. Through frantic actions of cutting and pasting, I rethread the nineteenth century satire for a contemporary age, smashing together disparate elements of printed matter in a method of editorial montage. Drawing from my own archive, sources include The Saturday Paper, The Australian, Flash Art, auction house magazines, Phantom cartoon magazines and historical anthropological texts, which are used alongside watercolour. My collages reveal the repetitive nature of human involvement in environmental and inter-human conflict since industrialisation and colonisation to our current moments of shifting alliances. Desire for and obsession with capital, race and catastrophe conflate and spiral through past and present trajectories, where satirical and ‘factual’ news and headlines repeat. The works suggest that little human learning concerning the protection of the environment and human-kind seems to have greatly evolved – are we really stuck in this forsaken dark abyss?

Artist bio


Brook Andrew is a Wiradjuri/Celtic artist who has been exhibiting internationally since 1996. His interdisciplinary practice critically examines dominant narratives related to global histories of colonialism and modernity. Through museum and archival interventions, he offers alternate visions of images and objects and different means for interpreting history in the world today.  Apart from drawing inspiration from vernacular objects and the archives, he travels internationally to work with communities and various private and public collections. Brook Andrew is Associate Professor Fine Art at Monash University; Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne; Artistic Director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels. 


01.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year I, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

02.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year II, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

03.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year III, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist


Brook Andrew, This year VII, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

04.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year VII, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

04.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year XII, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

05.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year V, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

06.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year VI, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist


Brook Andrew, This year IIX, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist

07.06.2020

 


Brook Andrew, This year IX, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist


Brook Andrew, This year X, 2020, collage, 24.5 x 31.2 cm, courtesy they artist


Past Actions

07 Jun - 13 Jun 2021

Unbound Collective

31 May - 06 Jun 2021

OLC Art Collective

24 May - 30 May 2021

Naomi Hobson

17 May - 23 May 2021

Adrft Lab

10 May - 16 May 2021

Pat Brassington

03 May - 09 May 2021

Eddie Abd

26 Apr - 02 May 2021

Loren Kronemyer

19 Apr - 25 Apr 2021

Guo Jian

12 Apr - 18 Apr 2021

Kenny Pittock

05 Apr - 11 Apr 2021

Jannawi Dance Clan

29 Mar - 04 Apr 2021

Gillian Kayrooz

22 Mar - 28 Mar 2021

Nathan Beard

15 Mar - 21 Mar 2021

Pilar Mata Dupont

08 Mar - 14 Mar 2021

Michael Cook

01 Mar - 07 Mar 2021

Seini F Taumoepeau

22 Feb - 28 Feb 2021

Dani Marti

15 Feb - 21 Feb 2021

Lill Colgan & Sab D'Souza

08 Feb - 14 Feb 2021

Chris Yee

01 Feb - 07 Feb 2021

Rochelle Haley

25 Jan - 31 Jan 2021

Karrabing Film Collective

18 Jan - 24 Jan 2021

Nici Cumpston

11 Jan - 17 Jan 2021

Johnathon World Peace Bush

07 Dec - 13 Dec 2020

Aphids

30 Nov - 06 Dec 2020

Raquel Ormella

23 Nov - 29 Nov 2020

Léuli Eshrāghi

16 Nov - 22 Nov 2020

Rolande Souliere

09 Nov - 15 Nov 2020

TV Moore

02 Nov - 08 Nov 2020

Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu

26 Oct - 01 Nov 2020

Ivey Wawn

19 Oct - 25 Oct 2020

Naomi Blacklock

12 Oct - 18 Oct 2020

Sancintya Mohini Simpson

05 Oct - 11 Oct 2020

Yhonnie Scarce

28 Sep - 04 Oct 2020

Ruha Fifita

21 Sep - 27 Sep 2020

Kaylene Whiskey

14 Sep - 20 Sep 2020

Adam Linder

07 Sep - 13 Sep 2020

Archie Barry

31 Aug - 06 Sep 2020

Min Wong

24 Aug - 30 Aug 2020

Hayley Millar-Baker

17 Aug - 23 Aug 2020

Erin Coates

10 Aug - 16 Aug 2020

Diego Bonetto

03 Aug - 09 Aug 2020

Tyza Hart

27 Jul - 02 Aug 2020

Larissa Hjorth

20 Jul - 26 Jul 2020

Louise Zhang

13 Jul - 19 Jul 2020

Henri Papin (Meijers & Walsh)

06 Jul - 12 Jul 2020

Stelarc

29 Jun - 05 Jul 2020

Rainbow Chan

22 Jun - 28 Jun 2020

Jason Phu

15 Jun - 21 Jun 2020

Abdul Abdullah

08 Jun - 14 Jun 2020

Patricia Piccinini

01 Jun - 07 Jun 2020

Brook Andrew

25 May - 31 May 2020

Radha

18 May - 24 May 2020

James Tylor