brook & black is an art partnership which brings together a combination of skills rooted in fine art practice: installation, sound, video, printmaking, photography and sculpture. From a process of research, investigation and experiment we work with made and found objects, light and sound to engage the viewer through intervening in the structure of space and sound. Through shifting the viewer's
brook & black is an art partnership which brings together a combination of skills rooted in fine art practice: installation, sound, video, printmaking, photography and sculpture. From a process of research, investigation and experiment we work with made and found objects, light and sound to engage the viewer through intervening in the structure of space and sound. Through shifting the viewer's perspective in this way, new readings, connections and emotional responses are evoked. Several core themes may be traced within the work: layers of human experience within structured or built space; memory and the passing of time; the fluidity and transformational aspects of water; the expressive and still surprising force of light and shadow. One or more of these themes often emerges in the work, frequently made in response to a specific gallery, exhibition space or site. This work is researched and developed alongside teaching (Oxford Brookes University, Regent's University London and Camberwell College of Arts) and delivering engagement programmes for galleries (Modern Art Oxford etc) and non-gallery contexts.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Beyond the Balcony, Gallery 65, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2011 The Accordion House, Project Space, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
2011 Le Regard Clos, Musee Toulouse Lautrec, Albi, France (Banque Populaire funding)
2009 Drift, The Kirkham Gallery, Henley on Thames (ACE funding award)
2007 Bagatelle Parallel, The Wallace Collection, London (Architecture Week commission)
2005 Loco Solis, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (Architecture Week commission)
2004 Counterpane II, 115 OXO Tower, South Bank, London
Group Exhibitions
2016 Material World, brook & black with Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Diana Bell, Jonathan Moss, Agne, Emmanuelle Radzyner, Jeff, Saint-Pierre, Sonia Serrano, Ancien Musee de Peintre, Grenoble, France
2015 Arkitektoniske Kramper, brook & black with Rydvald & Deuland, OVADA, UK
2015 Composing Spaces, brook & black with Rydvald & Deuland, Gjethuset, Denmark
2014 Oneself As Another, Curated by Bo.lee Projects, Royal West of England Academy
2013 Woodshed, Oxford Brookes University
2012 Cultivation Field, The Keep, Reading, Berkshire
2012 Viewfinder, Avenue Gallery, The University of Northampton, Northampton
2012 Woodshed March 8th, Oxford Brookes University, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford
2011 Viewfinder, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Viewfinder, Artspace H, Seoul, South Korea (University of Northampton Funding)
Viewfinder, Impact 7 Conference, Intersections and Counterpoints, Melbourne
2007 Umfeld/Inwelt, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany (Oxford City Council Funding)
2007 Digital and Physical Surfaces, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2006 They Came to See, Hooglandse Kerk, Nieuwstraat, Leiden, Holland (OCC Funding)
2004 Case 1 Gallery, London
2004 Elevation, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2004 Brookes Contemporary, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Artists Residencies
2015/6 Digital Artist in Residence, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Heritage Lottery Fund)
2010/11 Plot 16, The Fermenting Room, Modern Art Oxford (Paul Hamlyn Funding, ACE, MAO)
2009 Look Ahead Housing and Care Ltd, London and The Lightbox Gallery, Woking
2003 Alayrac, France (ACE R&D funding award)
Public Art Commissions
2012/15 Rose Hill Public Art Project, Rose Hill, Oxford (Oxford City Council)
2011/13 Waterways, Barratt Homes, Wolverton, Milton Keynes
2009/10 The Maze, Crystal Palace Park, London Development Agency, The Guide Association and Bromley Borough Council, London
Projects
2013/14 Art & Architecture Research Fellowship, Oxford Brookes University
2010 Art & Architecture Collaborative Project, The Cultural Olympiad, (Creative Campus/OBU)
2008 Behind the Facade, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford (ACE funding award)
2007 Mediations, Oxford Visual Arts Development Agency, Oxford (Oxford City Council & Oxford Brookes University)
2005 Elles sont passes par ici, Artevisa Project, Brittany, France
Artist Talks/Workshops/Presentations
2015 Pulling Together/Pulling Apart: Forces in Creative Collaboration, OVADA, Oxford
2013 iJADE Conference: paper: Inter-Disciplinary Teaching Methods
2013 Joining Forces, presentation at symposium on collaboration Fabrikken Copenhagen
2012 Stammtisch: OVADA, Oxford Visual Arts Development Agency with Matt Black
2012 Workshop for The Creative Communities Unit, Staffordshire University and the
Participatory Practitioners for Change (PPFC) conference
2011 Viewfinder - Panel Discussion at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2011 Cultivation Field –presentation at Symposium University of Reading, Chair Kate Corder
2011 Public Art Forum –in-conversation with Curators Frances Lord and Sophie Hope, MAO
2011 Iain Sinclair (author) in conversation, Modern Art Oxford, re Plot 16, The Fermenting Room
2010 Artists Response talk on Miroslaw Balka exhibition, Modern Art Oxford
2009 Michael Archer (Reader in Fine Art Practice, Goldsmiths University of London) re Drift
2005 ARC+ Discussion Panel for Arrivals Programme, Modern Art Oxford
Publications/Chapters
Artists & Studios, Private Views, An OxfordFolio Publication, 9-780956 740533
Viewfinder, Print Research Network, Falcon Press, 978-0-9568975-0-3
FADE - Digital and Physical Surfaces, exhibition/conference (AHRC funded, as part of ICFAR, London, Jan’) ISBN 13 978-1-84638-040-2
Elles sont passées par ici (Here nor There) – ISBN 0-9550435-0-6
Citations in:
Jane Rendell, Site Writing, LB Tauris, 2011
Engaging with Contemporary Art Through Collaborative Activity, Modern Art Oxford, 2010
David Toop, Sinister Sounds, Continuum, 2010
TIFFANY BLACK
Senior Lecturer Oxford Brookes University BA Fine Art
LEORA BROOK
Lecturer in Visual Communication, BA Regent’s University,
Associate Lecturer in Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University BA Fine Art,
Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts MA,
