Julie Brook is a British artist who works with the land, where her response to the forms and materials to hand is expressed through her work. Over the past twenty years she has lived and worked in a succession of wild and remote landscapes, creating sculptures, paintings, drawings and films. During 2008/09 Julie Brook worked in the black volcanic desert in central Libya. This led to further exploration in 2011/12 in the semi-desert of North West Namibia where the absolute nature of the light and shadow is expressed in the new sculptural work.

made, unmade is Julie Brook’s first solo exhibition since her return and will be an immersive experience bringing visitors closer to the environment through carefully sequenced and powerful films. ‘made, unmade’ will also feature a series of drawings alongside a specially commissioned rug produced by Dovecot weaver Jonathan Cleaver, inspired by Brook’s work.

Alongside the exhibition Dovecot will be hosting a series of ‘In conversation’ events between Julie Brook and a diverse collection of award winning artists

22 May 18.00 – 19.30

Julie Brook in conversation with contemporary British Painter Dan Sturgis

Daniel Sturgis received an MA from Goldsmiths College in 1994, where he subsequently taught, until being appointed Course Director in Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.

Recent exhibitions include Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1987 ­ 2008, Harris Museum, Preston (2009); Invisible Cities, Jerwood Space, London (2009); and the solo presentations Possibilities in Geometric Abstraction, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart (2008) and Everybody Loves Somebody, The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas (2007).

He has curated a number of exhibitions looking at aspects of contemporary painting and its historic legacy. These include, The Indiscipline of Painting Tate St Ives (2011/12); Daniel Buren¹s Voile Toile/Toile Voile, Wordsworth Trust Grasmere (2005); Between Letters and Abstraction, Wordsworth Trust (2004); co-curated with Richard Kirwan Jeremy Moon - A Retrospective (2001), and co-curated with Martyn Simpson Perfidy at Le Corbusier¹s convent Santa Marie de la Tourette in France.

In 2008 he was awarded a PhD by Oxford Brookes University, his thesis examined the position of painting, and the use of the Baroque, in early post-modern thought.

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Supported by: Creative Scotland
Event Partner: Young Films