About:
Twitter: D_BROOX
Music: All Records / Darkcho.
Selected Exhibitions:
2011 - The NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, The NSW Parliament House, NSW.
2010 - Waverley Art Prize (Winner of the oil painting prize), Waverly Woollahra Arts Centre, Bondi, NSW.
2010 - Paddington Art Prize (finalist), Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Kensington, NSW.
2010 - The Blake Prize (shortlisted) Director’s Cut Online Exhibition.
2007 – Brett Whitely Travelling Artist Scholarship (finalist), Brett Whiteley Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW.
1998 – Art Express Exhibition (invitation image and winner of Chromer Award), National Gallery of NSW
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 – Here and Now, The Depot Gallery, Danks Street. NSW.
2009 – Night life, The Art House Hotel, CBD, NSW.
2008 – Two Suns Rising, Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
Other shows:
2011 – aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo, NSW.
2011 - Waverley Art Prize (shortlisted), Waverly Woollahra Arts Centre, Bondi, NSW.
2011 – At The Vanishing Point (shortlisted), Newtown, NSW.
2011 – True colours, The Tap Gallery, NSW.
2010 – Stanthorpe Art Prize (shortlisted), Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD.
2010 – Corangamarah Art Prize, VIC.
2010 – Open Arts Africa Charity Auction, Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
2010 – Cancer Council Art Award (shortlisted), St Michael’s Uniting Church, Mel,VIC.
2010 – Art Beat Exhibition, Moriah College, Queens Park, NSW.
2009 – ROBE Southern Ocean Art Prize, Robe Institute, Robe, SA.
2009 – Pink Lady Art Exhibition, St Andrews Hall, Brighton, VIC.
2009 – Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Centrehouse, Lane Cove, NSW.
2009 – Waverley Art Prize (shortlisted), Waverly Woollahra Arts Centre, Bondi, NSW.
2009 – IUA Art Exhibition (shortlisted), Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2009 – Limmud Oz Art Exhibition, University of New South Wales, NSW.
2008 – Stanthorpe Art Prize (shortlisted), Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD.
2008 – The “Churchie” National Emerging Artist Prize (shortlisted), East Brisbane, QLD.
2007 – Willoughby Art Prize (shortlisted), Willoughby Town Hall, NSW.
2007- Kramers Ergot Group Exhibition, Janet Wallace Fine Art Center at Macalester College, St Paul MN, USA.
2007- Group Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2007 – Betzalel Group Exhibition, T.A.P. Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW.
2006 – “Victor Majzner and David Brook cultural art”, Ohel Devorah Synagogue, East St. Kilda, VIC.
Statement:
I find painting a very real and intense moment where you can notice and feel things that nobody sees
in the mad rush of this world. I enjoy putting things down on the canvas to create a narrative in a
moment of time. Experimenting with moving images also interests me.
Bio:
David Brook was born in Sydney 1980, he studied at the National Art school in 1999.
Collections:
Art Spectrum, VIC.
Private collection of Doreen and Brae Kenmar, VIC.
Green Turtle Productions, NSW
Media Reviews:
The Sunday Mail, Mixed paint, Ronnie Girdham,, May 2008.
