Terri Brooks Catalogue

A selection of work by year

When I refer to ‘pure’ abstraction, I am thinking more about, say, the visual difference between Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism. One is full of spiky elongated, exaggerated reality coupled with recognisable human expression, anxiety being predominant. The other is not illustrational; instead, it is marked by mood, observation, energy and the actually visible involvement of the painterly mark … Terri Brooks, artist philosopher and champion of the ‘everyman’ uses sgraffito, accumulation, sprays and the limits of her own reach in imagery inspired by roadwork markings, craft workers, builders excavations, or some local punk with a spray can and a desperate desire to tag his or her own name.’ Andrew Gaynor, excerpt Direction Now opening speech, 2014.