BROOK ANDREW - FRONTIER LIGHTS

BROOK ANDREW
FRONTIER LIGHTS, ED. 7/7, 2005
100 x 97 cm; 132 x 125 cm (framed)
screenprint and collage on paper with graphite and diamond dust
 
EXHIBITED
Stills Gallery, Brook Andrew: Hope & Peace, 2005, Sydney, NSW
Annette Larkin Fine Art, A Private Collection II, 2015, Sydney, NSW
 
PROVENANCE
Stills Gallery, NSW, Edition 7/7
Annette Larkin Fine Art, NSW
Private Collection, NSW
Signed below image
 
STORY
Through his work, in a variety of areas, Brook Andrew is a fervent and forthright social commentator who explores the history of race relations in Australia, as well as colonialism, ethnography, cultural identity, gender politics, globalisation, and other themes. By employing powerful post-modern imagery, delivered with sociological savvy and slick visual appeal, his high impact, high-energy works are immediate, urgent, and can be at once both beautiful and humorous. They comment on, and elicit responses from, both Indigenous and non-indigenous viewers through a variety of computer-generated photo-media, including conventional screen print neon projected onto large-scale screens lit from behind, and printing on to Duraclear, a material conventionally used in advertising. Created on a large scale, and produced in a refined yet glossy pop style, his works are provocative, challenging, and visually dynamic.