Brook Andrew

A gentle and meditative exhibition, “seeing time” was in that way slightly uncharacteristic for its maker, Wiradjuri and Celtic Australian artist, writer, and curator Brook Andrew. Across the course of his nearly three-decade career, Andrew has confronted many aspects of colonial trauma head-on. For instance, in 2016 he made with Trent Walter a public memorial to Indigenous warriors Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, who were executed in Melbourne in 1842. Many of Andrew’s works address the museological holdings of ancestral human remains and ceremonial objects. They frequently include items from the vast archive of historical images and objects he has collected. Conspicuously devoid of such references, the large-format square canvases in “seeing time” offered a more open and reflective space for contemplation and for the experience and registration of time. 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. – Helen Hughes, Artforum, 2022

 

Interviews 2006
Still taken from 38 minute DVD projected video work
38 minutes
Interviews 2006
Still taken from 38 minute DVD projected video work
38 minutes
Replicant series: Owl 2006
Ilfochrome print
127 x 190 cm
Replicant series: Possum 2006
Ilfochrome print
127 x 145 cm
Replicant series: Parrot 2006
Ilfochrome print
127 x 220 cm
Peace, the Man and Hope Silver (Hope and Peace Series) Portrait of Anthony ‘The Man’ Mundine 2005
Screenprint on Italian rag paper, collage arranged as a triptych
151.5 x 245 cm
Hope (Hope and Peace Series) 2005
Screenprint
100 x 98 cm
Frontier Lights (Hope and Peace Series) 2005
Screenprint
100 x 98 cm