Meet The Artist
Dawn Brooks
I am a printmaker who uses a variety of media to achieve the finished print, including carborundum, dry-point and screen printing, sometimes all within the same print. As a result some prints are unique whilst others are printed as a numbered edition.
In the past my work has been inspired by the industrial landscape of the North East; abstracting and reducing the imposing structures to their most basic form, portraying the powerful environment of the industrial landscape through expressive mark making and the essential memory of the place.
My most recent series of prints were developed using automatic drawing as a means of expressing ideas from the subconscious.
The resulting drawings are a starting point for the printing plate which is created as a painter might use a canvas, in the sense that the construction of the image is process led - instinctively reacting to marks as they are made.
C.V.
Education
1997–2000 Cumbria College of Art and Design.
BA (Hons) 2:1 Printed Textiles Design
Employment/ Experience
2009 – Present Part Time Art Tutor, WEA
2003 – Present Freelance Community Artist/ Tutor
2002 – Present Studio Holder at Crescent Arts, Scarborough
Represented by:
Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
For Arts Sake, Ealing
Selected Exhibitions
2012
January
Eleven Gallery, Hull
2011
April
A4 International Printmakers Competition, Newlyn Society of Artists Print Show
The Exchange Gallery Penzance
March
A4 International Printmakers Wharepuke Print Studio, New Zealand
January
Solo Exhibition, Fragment Series, Crescent Arts, Scarborough
2010
October A4 International Printmakers Competition
Open Space Galleries, Penryn, Cornwall
2009
October
The Printed Image, Zillah Bell, Thirsk
Future Exhibitions 2012
October
Solo Show, Gallery at Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton Le Hole
August
Solo Show, Duckett & Jeffreys, Malton
Residencies
2006 Artist and Poet Residence. Scarborough Borough Council
Awards
Jan 2008 Research and Development Grant. Arts Council England
Collections
July 2009 The University Of Hull, Scarborough Campus
Competitions
August 2010 A4 International Printmakers Competition, Awarded 4th Place