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Artist Statement:
I am often asked the question
what is my work about which is
a little like being asked what
is life about. Each person
must bring their own
experience and provide their
own answers. Quite simply my
work is about life and the
enigma that surrounds
existence. I make reference
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Artist Exhibitions:
ART EXHIBITIONS:
One-woman Exhibitions:
1995 Musgrave Laureate
Exhibition – National Galley
of Jamaica
1993 Chelsea Gallery –
paintings from the “Night
Series” shown in conjunction
with ceramics by Jag Mehta
1989 Mutual Life Gallery,
Kingston, Jamaica – “The
Garden Series”, an exhibition
of 14 paintings depicting the
garden
1986 Bonagree Gallery
Commonwealth ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
WORKS INCLUDED IN THE
FOLLOWING REVIEWS AND
PUBLICATIONS
1998 “Caribbean Art” Thames
and Hudson “World of Art”
series, Thames and Hudson,
London
1996 Feature article in BWIA
inflight magazine, by Dr.
Petrine Archer-Straw
published, June 1996
1996 Work included in UWI
publication, titled “Modern
Jamaican Art”, published,
November 1996, ...
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Hope Brooks Biography:
| Biographical information for Hope Brooks can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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63
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
3
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Reading, Dancing, practicing yoga, listening to music, going to see films, the theatre, listening to poetry. I am a lover of the arts, all the arts. I enjoy the visual arts in particular, going to museums and art shows, painting, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, & fashion shows. I enjoy beautiful design whether the object be antique or modern I love to collect it. I also love gardening and think that nature is the greatest designer of all. Nature is unselfconscious perfection and is the basis for what we understand and that which artist of all disciplines seek to be. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Klimt, Rothko, Klee, the cave painters
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| Favorite Work of Art |
There are so many. Will come back later
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The cave painters of Lascaux and Altemira were my early inspiration. The merging of the image with the wall surface over centuries I found particularly beautiful. It caused me to try to replicate this quality in my early paintings. Also the fact of the image not being a representation of the animal but more an essence of its being was another aspect that greatly influenced me. Those early "paintings" of man have been a defining force for me. They have defined what I have valued most in art and what I have tried to communicate with my art. Art is essence and poetry and those artists who speak that language are my favorites. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
From as far back as I can remember that is what I wanted to be. I loved to draw and paint and it was my favorite subject at school. I was also good at it and when I was six my teacher entered my work in a Royal DRawing Society Art Exhibition in the UK for which I received an Honors Certificate. I continued doing my art in High School - and I sat and passed Art in my School Certificate Examinations at 16 and also in the Higher School Certificate Examinations at 18. In the following year I applied and was accepted into the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland where I studied Drawing and Painting 1963 - 1967. Today forty years later painting is still my joy, my passion , my love and the thing I intend to continue doing until I die. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Hope Brooks was born in Jamaica in 1944. She studies at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland 1963 - 2967 and then the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 1980 - 1981. She holds a DA Drawing and Painting and the MFA in ARt Education from the Edinburgh College of Art and the Maryland Institute COllege of ARt respectively.
Since her early days of training in the 60's, Brooks has used mixed media to build the colours and textures for which her work has become known. Since the eighties, Brooks has been using Sumi Ink and oriental paint brushes in serch for the perfect medium for her style and most recently, in a seeming departure from her 'organic' subject matter, has combined these with transfer prints to create statements about world events.
Hope Brooks is the retired Vice Principal of Academic and Technical Studies at the Edna Manley College of the VIsual and Performing Arts (an Art, Dance, Drama and Music College) in Kingston Jamaica where she has worked for many years. (1967 - 2007). During this time she has been Head of Foundation Studies, Director of Studies, Director and Dean of the School of Visual Arts before becoming VP in 2004. During her tenure Miss Brooks has been instrumental in developing undergraduate degree programmes in the Visual and Performing arts
Miss Brooks is an active practitioner and her work can be found in many important collections including the National Gallery of Jamaica and the Wallace Campbell collection.
She has had 11 one person exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including:
Exhibition of Contemporary Jamaican Art, 1974, Casa De Las Americas, Havana Cuba
'Thirty Jamaican Artists' - Cultural Exhibition in Mexico City, Mexico 1975
'Carifesta 1981', Work selected to represent Jamaica at the Caribbean Festival of the Arts, held Bridgetown, Barbados 1981.
'Jamaican Art 1940 to 1980' Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, SITES 1983 - 1985.
'1942 - 1992, Un Nouveau Regard Sur Les Caraibes', Espace Carpeaux, Courbevoie, France
'Exposition Entretropicos', Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela, 1992
'Soon Come', The Art of Contemporary Jamaica, touring exhibition organized by Nebraska Arts Council, USA, 2002 - 2003
Modern Jamaican Art through the works of Six Female Artists, Grand Valley State University, 2005 (GVSU), Michigan, USA.
Her awards include:
Centenary Medal, Institute of Jamaica,1980,
Rotary Foundation Fellowship (1981),
Silver Musgrave Medal 1994 for outstanding contribution to art education in Jamaica,
Her work is included in the History of ARt SEries on 'Caribbean Art' edited by Veerle Rammalaere, published by Thames and Hudson. |
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