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Nell Brookfield b. 1994, London, England
Nell is a London Based Artist who graduated from the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year Programme in 2018. Previous to this Nell Received her BSc in Anthropology at UCL in 2017. She has recently spent a year 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. The patterning accentuates the charged moments between the figures, being used as 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
Upcoming/ Current Exhibition
2021, @topainterstopaintings selected by Ornis and Jeanine of Althuis Hofland
2021, Art on a Postcard, Allbright Mayfair, London
2021, The Columbia, Lancaster Gate, London
Past Exhibitions
2021, Small Pleasures, All Mouth Gallery, Online Auction
2021, For the Many Not the Few, Guts Gallery, Online
2021, Cave Canem, Eve Leibe Gallery, Online
2021, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition, Willis Museum
2020, Buildings, Matchett & Page Gallery, Somerset
2020, Curated For Christmas, All Mouth & Bowes Parris, London
2020, With Love, @Painttalk, Online
2020, A Show of Hands, September Gallery, Hudson, New York
2020, A Crowded Room, Matchett & Page, Somerset
2020, Royal Drawing School Alumni Summer Show, Online
2020, Curated For Covid, Online
2019, Saturnalia, 124 Columbia Road, London
2019, A High Hang, Eccleston Project Space, London
2019, Ash & Rind, Medicine Gallery New Cross, London
2019, Laura Lopes Summer Exhibition, Wiltshire
2019, Man-Made Disater with Do the Green Thing, Protein Stuios, London
2019, The RISD Drawing Marathon Exhibition, RISD, USA
2018, Best of the Drawing Year, Christies, London
2018-2019, The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London
2018, Drawing Year Open Studios, SPACE, London
Residencies/Awards
Winter Session Residency/ Drawing Marathon at Rhode Island School of Design, 2019, Providence, USA
Borgo Pignano Painting Residency, July 2018, with the Royal Drawing School, Italy
The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School
Press
Evening Standard Magazine’s ‘New Art Power List’ October 2.10.2020
Cover of the Prattfolio Spring/Summer 2020 Edition
Projects
Created the artwork for ‘Cusp’ a book with Ache Magazine
Interviews
https://matchett.page/Interview-1-Nell-Brookfield
https://www.unseensketchbooks.co.uk/2020/06/20/interview-nell-brookfield/
https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/nell-brookfield/
Words
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/
If you would like to hear news, please leave your email:
Nell Brookfield b. 1994, London, England
Nell is a London Based Artist who graduated from the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year Programme in 2018. Previous to this Nell Received her BSc in Anthropology at UCL in 2017. She has recently spent a year 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. The patterning accentuates the charged moments between the figures, being used as 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
Upcoming/ Current Exhibition
2021, @topainterstopaintings selected by Ornis and Jeanine of Althuis Hofland
2021, Art on a Postcard, Allbright Mayfair, London
2021, The Columbia, Lancaster Gate, London
Past Exhibitions
2021, Small Pleasures, All Mouth Gallery, Online Auction
2021, For the Many Not the Few, Guts Gallery, Online
2021, Cave Canem, Eve Leibe Gallery, Online
2021, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition, Willis Museum
2020, Buildings, Matchett & Page Gallery, Somerset
2020, Curated For Christmas, All Mouth & Bowes Parris, London
2020, With Love, @Painttalk, Online
2020, A Show of Hands, September Gallery, Hudson, New York
2020, A Crowded Room, Matchett & Page, Somerset
2020, Royal Drawing School Alumni Summer Show, Online
2020, Curated For Covid, Online
2019, Saturnalia, 124 Columbia Road, London
2019, A High Hang, Eccleston Project Space, London
2019, Ash & Rind, Medicine Gallery New Cross, London
2019, Laura Lopes Summer Exhibition, Wiltshire
2019, Man-Made Disater with Do the Green Thing, Protein Stuios, London
2019, The RISD Drawing Marathon Exhibition, RISD, USA
2018, Best of the Drawing Year, Christies, London
2018-2019, The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London
2018, Drawing Year Open Studios, SPACE, London
Residencies/Awards
Winter Session Residency/ Drawing Marathon at Rhode Island School of Design, 2019, Providence, USA
Borgo Pignano Painting Residency, July 2018, with the Royal Drawing School, Italy
The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School
Press
Evening Standard Magazine’s ‘New Art Power List’ October 2.10.2020
Cover of the Prattfolio Spring/Summer 2020 Edition
Projects
Created the artwork for ‘Cusp’ a book with Ache Magazine
Interviews
https://matchett.page/Interview-1-Nell-Brookfield
https://www.unseensketchbooks.co.uk/2020/06/20/interview-nell-brookfield/
https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/nell-brookfield/
Words
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/