Terri Brooks: Sketches

Sketches

Cat, 2007, pen on paper, 10x10 cm.

Portrait, 2006, pen and wash on paper 15x10 cm.

Streetscape, 2007, pen and wash on paper, 15x10 cm.

Portrait, 2008, pen and wash on paper, 15x10 cm.

Sleeping Dogs, 2009, pen and wash on paper, 15x10 cm.

Foot, 2007, pen and wash on paper, 15x10cm.

Group, 2005, pen and wash on paper, 20x15 cm.

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'Brooks absorbs the physical qualities of the built environment, delighting in the accidental textures and material surfaces of concrete, building materials or bitumen roads. She is not a landscape painter, but works to reflect the truth and beauty of the utilitarian surfaces around her. Her canvases offer a sort of spatial dislocation or inverse trompe-l'œil of reality, as isolated sections of the everyday are reborn within the gallery setting… As replicas of the factual world, in all its decay and innate ordinariness, these paintings subvert the idiom of preciousness' Phe Luxford, 2012.