I first met Chris at university where we were both studying fine art. Chris is going to study for his MA at Wimbledon.
Chris Brooke’s contemporary fine art practice involves drawing, printing and 3-dimensional work. His means of practicing tend to coincide with one another, which depicts the relations between these different processes. Brooke’s ‘Variation of IV’ is four 3-Dimensional grids, formed from a basic grid structure. They are succinctly leant against the wall from a height emphasising the 3-Dimensions of the artwork. They show order; control and disparity from one another showing a finite way of how you can keep a set formality of a structure through varying its arrangement.
Blue Grid
Black Grid
Drawings and printing are equally important to Brooke’s practice as they accommodate further possibilities in his artwork. From the development of these drawings Brooke creates structural objects that demonstrate many ways of showing how the drawings can work by using materials such as rulers, clamps and other DIY tools. Using the function of the tools shows how they can converge to combine and form as one unity, yet distinctively showing the construction of the artwork.
Brooke has a profound interest in functionality of structures in everyday life. Simultaneously his focus is on the development of diagrams which show complex ideas through a simple narrative. These notions are clearly attentive in and throughout his practice
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