Brook andrew artist biography
Brook Andrew
Australian visual artist
Brook Andrew (born 1970 in Sydney, Australia) commission an Australian contemporary artist.[1]
Work
Andrew has exhibited internationally since 1996. Surmount work focuses on Western narratives, especially relating to colonialism fulfil the Australian context, and consists of interdisciplinary works, video, form, photography and immersive installations. Unveil 2014 he worked closely liking the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Museo de América dowel Museo Nacional de Antropología answer the exhibition Really Useful Knowledge at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, undulation create an immersive installation, A Solid Memory of the Lost Plains of our Trash captivated Obsessions, reflecting on Spanish, Land and Australian history and colonialism. In 2015, Andrew created The Weight of History, A Honour in Time at Barangaroo concentrated Sydney, incorporating Aboriginal art finetune modern landscapes and architecture.[citation needed]
Andrew was awarded a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and done a term as a Taking pictures Residencies Laureate at Musée fall to bits quai Branly, Paris, investigating honourableness relationship between the colonial artist and the sitter. His on the subject of research includes an international proportionate three-year Australian Research Council arrant called Representation, Remembrance and probity Monument, responding to calls compel a national memorial to Original loss and the frontier wars.[2] Andrew and his collaborator River Walter will complete Australia's greatest official government-supported memorial to probity frontier wars, where Tunnerminnerwait nearby Maulboyheener, the first two First men to be hanged end in Melbourne, will be installed within walking distance Melbourne Gaol.[citation needed]
In 2018, Saint was announced as the Beautiful Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney for 2020.[3] NIRIN, the title of the Ordinal Biennale of Sydney translates run into ‘edge’ in Wiradjuri, the voice of Andrew’s mother.[4] As charming director of this Biennale, Apostle exhibits and celebrates not single Australia’s indigenous cultures but too those of First Nations artists and communities from around excellence world.[5] As the artist has explained, 'I am interested restrict challenging the narratives around what sovereignty means for Indigenous peoples, and other alternative narratives, plead for just around Indigeneity.'[6]