Selected Works
Touch Portraits
Etchings
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Nell Brookfield b. 1994, London, England
Nell is a London Based Artist who recently graduated from the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year Programme. Previous to this Nell Received her BSc in Anthropology at UCL in 2017. She has recently spent a year living and studying at the Pratt Institute in New York City.
I investigate the emotional and physical spaces between people that are present in both intimate or tense moments; and the feelings of alienation this provokes. Using sight, imagination and memory, I respond to the human and natural world around me. There is a sense of tenderness and touch between the figures, whilst always the possibility of struggle and strife. Drawing in soft pastel and painting with pigment on paper, intense colours and patterning accentuate the charged moments between the figures. The animal costumes are tools to either mask, or reveal human instincts of desire, frustration and rejection.
Education
2019-2021 MFA Painting, Pratt Institute, New York City
2017-2018 Postgraduate MA-Level, Royal Drawing School, London
2014-2017 BSc, Anthropology, University College London
Past Exhibitions
2020, Royal Drawing School Online Summer Show
2020, May-June 8th - Curated For Covid, Virtual Exhibition curated by Beth Rodway and Rachael Neale, www.curatedforcovid.com
2019, ‘Saturnalia’, Group Show, 124 Columbia Road, E2 7RG
2019, ‘A High Hang’, Group Show Curated by Christabel MacGreevy and Mark Connolly, London
2019, 24th-26th May - ‘Ash & Rind’, @rdsdrawingyear18 x SpaceHoney, Five Bells, London
2019, Laura Lopes Summer Exhibition, 11th May-17th May, Wiltshire,
2019, ‘Man-Made Disater’ curated by ‘Do the Green Thing’, at Protein Stuios, London
2019, The RISD Drawing Marathon Exhibition, RISD Nature Lab, Providence, USA
2018, Group Exhibition at Christies London
2018-2019, The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School Shoreditch, London
2018, Open Studios Space Studios Hackney, London
Residencies/Awards
Winter Session Residency/ Drawing Marathon at Rhode Island School of Design, January-February 2019, Providence, USA
Borgo Pignano Painting Residency, July 2018, with the Royal Drawing School, Italy
Words/Podcasts
https://www.unseensketchbooks.co.uk/2020/06/20/interview-nell-brookfield/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/blog/notes-new-york-may-2020/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/blog/philemona-williamson-interview/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/blog/notes-new-york/
https://royaldrawingschool.org/blog/risd-drawing-marathon-2019/
Nell Brookfield b. 1994, London, England
Nell is a London Based Artist who recently graduated from the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year Programme. Previous to this Nell Received her BSc in Anthropology at UCL in 2017. She has recently spent a year living and studying at the Pratt Institute in New York City.
I investigate the emotional and physical spaces between people that are present in both intimate or tense moments; and the feelings of alienation this provokes. Using sight, imagination and memory, I respond to the human and natural world around me. There is a sense of tenderness and touch between the figures, whilst always the possibility of struggle and strife. Drawing in soft pastel and painting with pigment on paper, intense colours and patterning accentuate the charged moments between the figures. The animal costumes are tools to either mask, or reveal human instincts of desire, frustration and rejection.
Education
2019-2021 MFA Painting, Pratt Institute, New York City
2017-2018 Postgraduate MA-Level, Royal Drawing School, London
2014-2017 BSc, Anthropology, University College London
Past Exhibitions
2020, Royal Drawing School Online Summer Show
2020, May-June 8th - Curated For Covid, Virtual Exhibition curated by Beth Rodway and Rachael Neale, www.curatedforcovid.com
2019, ‘Saturnalia’, Group Show, 124 Columbia Road, E2 7RG
2019, ‘A High Hang’, Group Show Curated by Christabel MacGreevy and Mark Connolly, London
2019, 24th-26th May - ‘Ash & Rind’, @rdsdrawingyear18 x SpaceHoney, Five Bells, London
2019, Laura Lopes Summer Exhibition, 11th May-17th May, Wiltshire,
2019, ‘Man-Made Disater’ curated by ‘Do the Green Thing’, at Protein Stuios, London
2019, The RISD Drawing Marathon Exhibition, RISD Nature Lab, Providence, USA
2018, Group Exhibition at Christies London
2018-2019, The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School Shoreditch, London
2018, Open Studios Space Studios Hackney, London
Residencies/Awards
Winter Session Residency/ Drawing Marathon at Rhode Island School of Design, January-February 2019, Providence, USA
Borgo Pignano Painting Residency, July 2018, with the Royal Drawing School, Italy
Words/Podcasts
https://www.unseensketchbooks.co.uk/2020/06/20/interview-nell-brookfield/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/blog/notes-new-york-may-2020/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/blog/philemona-williamson-interview/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/blog/notes-new-york/
https://royaldrawingschool.org/blog/risd-drawing-marathon-2019/