Terri Brooks

Education

2009: PhD candidate University of Ballarat

2006: Plein air artist’s workshop, kunstGUT Schmiedenfelde, Germany

2005: ‘That fella paints like me’ Masters by research, University of Ballarat

1988: Grad. Dip. (Fine Art) with distinction, RMIT

1987: B.A. Fine Art with distinction, RMIT

 

Individual Exhibitions (and two person where stated)

2009: White Open, University of Ballarat Post Office Gallery, Ballarat

                 Recent works, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

                 ‚Zerbrechliche Weite : Fragile Space‘ Terri Brooks & Bernd Kerkin, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany

2007: Found Marks, Flinders Lane Gallery

2006: Painting forever and ever – part two, Harris Courtin Gallery, Sydney

2005: Painting forever and ever, Flinders Lane Gallery

2004: Harris Courtin Gallery

2003: Marked by Time, Flinders Lane Gallery

2002: Harris Courtin Gallery

2003: Flinders Lane Gallery

1999: Flinders Lane Gallery

1997: Flinders Lane Gallery

1994: The Tapping of the Tin, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

1994: Andrew Trahair & Terri Brooks, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

1992: Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

1990: Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

1989: A Portrait of Space, Friends of the Earth Gallery

 

Selected group exhibitions

2010: Pilven, Pilven and Brooks, Neville Pilven, Peter Pilven and Terri Brooks, Stefano’s Gallery 25, Mildura

2009:  Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery; ‘Group Exhibition’ Harris Courtin Gallery

                 Golden Plains Arts Trail, Illabrook/Rokewood Junction Hall

                 10/30, Ten years of  research graduates, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat

                 20 Plus: the sum of us, Flinders Lane Gallery

                 Antipoden II, Rob Whitton, Terri Brooks, Bernd Kerkin, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat

2008: Surface Tension, Flinders Lane Gallery; Harris Courtin Gallery

2007: Pure, Flinders Lane Gallery; 22nd Packsaddle exhibition, New England Regional Museum, NSW

2006: 21st Packsaddle exhibition, New England Regional Museum, NSW

                 Melbourne International Art Fair; Harris Courtin Gallery; 

                 Antipoden, kunstGUT Schmiedenfelde, Germany;

                 Whiteout, curated by Geoff Tolchard, Benalla Gallery, Switch back Gallery - Monash University, Churchill.

2005: Australian Abstraction, Aptos Cruz Gallery, Adelaide;

                 JBM Art Consultancy, London, Brisbane and Melbourne Art Fairs

2004: Flinders Lane Gallery; Melbourne International Art Fair

2003: Harris Courtin Gallery

2002: Melbourne International Art Fair; Harris Courtin Gallery; Abstraction on paper Flinders Lane Gallery

2001: JAPAN, Aptos Cruz galleries, South Australia

2000: Melbourne International Art Fair

1998: ACAF6 (Melbourne Art Fair); Group Show Flinders Lane Gallery

1996: Works on Paper, Flinders Lane Gallery

1995: Australia Felix, at Benalla

1992: Spoke, Site Specific Installation, 41 Gold Street curated by Louise Hall; ‘Homage to Spain’ MCA Gallery

1991: The Altarpiece Show - Personal Icons, Platform (Spencer Street)

                 Selected Artists, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

1990: Australian Contemporary Art Fair 2

1989: Artists at the Mission, Mission Arts Centre

 

Grants/Awards

2008: University of Ballarat Research Department – Travel Award

2007-9: University of Ballarat Research Scholarship

2006: Ministry of Culture, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, for artist workshop, organizer; Bernd Kerkin

1992: BP Australia Acquisitive Award

1991: Australia Council, Project Grant

1988: Pura Prize for work on paper  (RMIT)

 

Selected finalist Art Prizes and Awards

2010: Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, Curator Julie Collins, The Substation, Newport.

2007: Kedumba Invitation Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls, NSW

2006: Hatched 06, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)

2005: Tatterstall’s Landscape Art Prize, Art Promotions Queensland

2002: Fleurieu Art Prize & touring exhibition, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

1999: The Alice Prize, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

1998: Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

1997: Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill City Gallery, NSW.

1994: R. M. Ansett Art Award, City of Hamilton Art Gallery

1993: Diamond Valley Acquisitive Awards

1992: Diamond Valley Acquisitive Awards

1992: Artworks Four - BP Acquisitive Awards at 101 Collins Street

1990: Diamond Valley Acquisitive Art Awards

1990: Artworks Two - BP Acquisitive Awards

1989: Artworks One - BP Acquisitive Awards

1987: Mitchell College Union (National Student Art Prize) Bathurst

 

Refereed paper presentations and publications

2008: Sites of activity: on the edge, Australia University Art and Design Council (ACUADS) ‘Makeshift and the Australian

Patina’ South Australian School of Art.

                

Paper and Abstract presentations

2008: Crossing Boundaries, Annual Research Conference, University of Ballarat, ‘The makeshift qualities of the paintings of Tony Tuckson’

 

Guest Speaker

2009: Art Industry Forum, Visual Arts Department, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT)

2009: Terri Brooks and Bernd Kerkin, Visiting artists forum, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany

2010: Opening Speech, Alignments, Alan Bates and Robyn Hassall, Woodbine Art, Malmsbury.

 

Teaching

1989-2003: Diploma of  Visual Arts (painting and drawing), NMIT (Northern Melbourne TAFE)

2002: External examiner, Bachelor of Arts (Multimedia) Arts Academy, University of Ballarat

2009: External examiner, Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Gordon Institute of TAFE

 

Commissions

2006: Henley Properties Group

 

Publications

2010: Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize: Finalists 2010, dj projects.

2009: Patricia Anderson, ‘Editor’s Choice’, Australian Art Review, Issue 21, November, 79.

                 ‘Must See: Exhibitions’, Artist Profile, Issue 8, 96-97.

                 Terri Brooks, ‘Makeshift, Abstraction and the Australian Patina’, Confirmation of Candidature, University of Ballarat,

                                  April 3, 2009. http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/ubresearch/rgso/abstracts/Brooks,%20T.pdf

Detlef Stapf, ‘Kunstlerfreundschaften’, Nordkurier, Themen, May 6, 21.

Bernd Kerkin, NordDeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) (North German Radio), April 23.

2008: Terri Brooks, James Sillitoe, Allan Mann, ‘Makeshift and the Australian Patina’, Australian University Art and

Design Council (ACUADS), Sites of Activity on the edge, www.acuads.com.au

Crossing Boundaries, Annual Research Conference, University of Ballarat, Book of abstracts, 49.     

2007: ‘A Beautiful Set of Numbers’, Green: sustainable architecture and landscape design, Green Press Ltd., Issue 2,

                                  October, 34.

Jeff Makin, ‘Critic’s Choice’, Herald Sun, August 27, 95

Ballarat University, 2007-08 Post Graduate Research Guide, 6

2006: Kevin Brophy, What men and women do, Flat chat press, Melbourne, Cover image; Cawndilla Lakes, 1992.

                 Silke Vob, ‘Von Gegensatzen und Gemeinsamkeiten’, Nordkurier; Kultur & Freizeit, July 28, 26.

                 Diana Laarz, ‘Vom roten Kontinent zum Kunstgut’, Nordkurier; Altentreptow, July 20, 20.

                 Greg Wayn, Whiteout, touring exhibition, http: www.whiteout.com.au,

Hatched ’06, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Ballarat University, 28.

2005: Vaughan Mauby, ‘Smoke stacks inspire artist’, The Western Times, October 25, 12.

‘Perfect Palette’, House and Garden, June, 36.

2004: Michael Walters, ‘Twin Peak’, Belle, Oct-Nov. 123.

2003: Lenny Ann Low, Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, 13.

Lucinda Strahan, Melbourne Magazine, May 2003, 111.

Andrea Lloyd and Kevin Brophy, Catalogue essay ‘Marked by time’, Terri Brooks.

                 Ross Layton, ‘Delectable’, Vogue Living, Dec-Jan, 120.

2002: Kevin Brophy, Portrait in Skin, Five Island Press, Cover painting; Infrastructure, 1999.

2000: Christopher Heathcote, ‘The Mark in Question’, Art & Australia, vol. 37, no 4, 574.

1999: Jeff Makin, ‘Critic’s Choice’, Herald Sun, May 17, 105.

1991: ‘Gallery Commentary’, Art and Australia, vol. 28, no 4, 513.

1987: BA Fine Art, RMIT, Course Brochure,1987.

 

Collections

Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany

Macquarie Group Collection

Westpac Bank,

Dr Joseph Brown

Albert Tucker Collection

BHP Ltd

BHP Petroleum

Mitsuii

Henley Properties Group

Audit Victoria

Nauru House

BP Australia, 101 Collins Street

Grand Chancellor Hotel

Buxtons at Southbank

kunstGUT Schmeidenfelde, Germany

private collections in Australia, Germany, America, England, the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

Studio after hail, Christmas Day, 2006

Studio

2009