Nell Brookfield: Inbetweens

Nell puts her acute anthropologist's eye to use in her work. She distills her observations into arresting images at once familiar and unsettling. They offer us an enhanced mirror, reflecting not only what can be seen, but also what is unseen, unspoken, hidden and repressed. Reality, but as seen in dreams and visions. She uses figures of animals as well as humans, not least to emphasise the animal in all of us. She mixes her own pigments to ensure the depth of colour, and texture, she requires, paying close attention to bodies, gestures, fabrics, hair, feathers, scales, fur and skin.

Nell Brookfield (b. 1994, London, UK) is an artist living and working in London. Brookfield studied MA Painting and Drawing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 2019-2020, after receiving a postgraduate MA-Level from the Royal Drawing School in London, UK, and a BS in Anthropology from the University College London, UK. In 2019 Brookfield was awarded a residency at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Solo exhibitions include Duarte Sequeira Gallery, Portugal, September Gallery, New York, Niru Ratnam, London and Eve Liebe Gallery London. Selected group shows include September Gallery, New York; Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK; Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China; Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China; Eve Liebe Gallery, London, UK; Guts Gallery, London, UK; Royal Drawing School, London, UK; Christie's Auction House, London, UK; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York; Phillips Auction House, New York, Frieze Cork St No.9, London. Brookfield has been an artist in residence at the Borgo Pignano Painting Residency with the Royal Drawing School in Volterra Pisa, Italy. Brookfield's work has been featured by It's Nice That, Émergent Magazine, The Evening Standard, Duke University Magazine and Strada, amongst others.