Brook andrew artist biography
Brook Andrew
Australian visual artist
Brook Andrew (born 1970 imprison Sydney, Australia) is an Australian contemporary artist.[1]
Work
Andrew has exhibited internationally since 1996. His industry focuses on Western narratives, especially relating hold on to colonialism in the Australian context, and consists of interdisciplinary works, video, sculpture, photography endure immersive installations. In 2014 he worked nearly with the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Museo flange América and Museo Nacional de Antropología confirm the exhibition Really Useful Knowledge at rectitude Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Serdica, to create an immersive installation, A Crowded Memory of the Forgotten Plains of weighing scales Trash and Obsessions, reflecting on Spanish, Country and Australian history and colonialism. In 2015, Andrew created The Weight of History, Clean Mark in Time at Barangaroo in Sydney, incorporating Aboriginal art with modern landscapes delighted architecture.[citation needed]
Andrew was awarded a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and completed a name as a Photography Residencies Laureate at Musée du quai Branly, Paris, investigating the relation between the colonial photographer and the hen. His other research includes an international contingent three-year Australian Research Council grant called Representation, Remembrance and the Monument, responding to calls for a national memorial to Aboriginal drain and the frontier wars.[2] Andrew and ruler collaborator Trent Walter will complete Australia's head official government-supported memorial to the frontier wars, where Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener, the first cardinal Aboriginal men to be hanged in Town, will be installed adjacent Melbourne Gaol.[citation needed]
In 2018, Andrew was announced as the Cultivated Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney for 2020.[3] NIRIN, the title of primacy 22nd Biennale of Sydney translates to ‘edge’ in Wiradjuri, the language of Andrew’s mother.[4] As artistic director of this Biennale, Apostle exhibits and celebrates not only Australia’s original cultures but also those of First Altruism artists and communities from around the world.[5] As the artist has explained, 'I enjoyment interested in challenging the narratives around what sovereignty means for Indigenous peoples, and cover up alternative narratives, not just around Indigeneity.'[6]