James Brooks

James Brooks’ practice utilises screen and paper-based media sources of varying cultural status, as starting points to make works within drawing, print, audio and video. His practice implements a variety of slight to laborious interventions as a means to realise esoteric manipulations of the original source material. This artistic activity is an attempt to explore the position and reception of data/ information/ imagery within society. Furthermore, through exploiting the context of the specific information, it could be said the viewing experience is altered and in turn extended.

Born 1974, Devon, England
lives/ works in London

Education
2003 – 2004 MA Fine Art, Chelsea college of Art, London
1996 – 1998 BA Hons Fine Art (with 1st class honours) University of Plymouth

Solo Exhibitions
2013: ‘Reporter’, Platform A, Middlesbrough
2013: ‘Fruehsorge contemporary projects’, Berlin (2-person with Corinne Laroche)
2012: ‘Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris’, France (2-person with Corinne Laroche)
2012: ‘The Information Exchange’, domobaal/Man&Eve, London
2011: ‘Mass, Galerie Martina Detterer’, Frankfurt, Germany
2011: ‘Folks’, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, France
2011: ‘Staged and Screened’, 126 Gallery, Galway City, Ireland
2010: ‘Eleven Times James Brooks’, Trinity Projects, London
2008: ‘Translations’, Monika Bobinska, London

Group Exhibitions
2013: ‘The Naked and The Nude’, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
2013: ‘Give Me Five’, Staedel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2012: ‘The Artists’ Postcard Show’, Spike Island, Bristol
‘Unknown Fields’, Young Gallery, Salisbury / Trinity Contemporary, London
2011: ‘Dust on the Mirror’, Gallery North, Newcastle, UK
‘The Great Alonso’, Primo Alonso, London
‘The Wolfson Syndrome’, curated by the Modern Language Experiment, Dragon Court, London
2011: ‘In and Outside’, writing, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
‘Arakhne’, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, France
‘State of Flux’, Trinity Contemporary, New York
‘Please Write’, Posted, London
2010: ‘God is in the Details’, Primo Alonso, London ‘Show One’, AF Projects, London ‘Untitled’, Seventeen, London ’4 Artists’, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
2009: ‘Illusion of Reality’, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Norway ‘Recent Drawing’, Trinity Contemporary, New York ‘Time Is A Sausage (A Show of Shows)’, domobaal, London ‘In Between The Lines’, Trinity Contemporary, London ‘The Royal Republic’, Master Piper, London (curated by James Brooks)
2008: ‘Drawing’, Madison Gallery, London ‘A Colour Box’, Arcade, London 2007: ‘Art Futures’, Bloomberg space, London
2006: ‘Until It Makes Sense’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (curated by James Brooks) ‘Drawing from Turner’, Tate Britain, London ‘Until It Makes Sense’, Seventeen, London (curated by James Brooks)
2005: ‘Riflerange’, Riflemaker, London

Publications
2012: What is an Art Book? The Modern Language Experiment
2011: The Wolfson Syndrome, The Modern Language Experiment
2011: The Drawing Lab, Dina4 Projekte, Munich, Germany
2011: Alumni Interview, University of the Arts, London
2011: Postcards, Reaktion books publication, by Jeremy Cooper
2010: The Illusion of Reality, Norway Kunsthall, Exhibition booklet
2009: Recent British Drawings, Exhibition catalogue
2009: In Between the lines, Exhibition catalogue
2008: Translations, Exhibiton booklet
2006: Drawing: The Future, The National Gallery, London
2006: Fold 06, University of Arts London press
2006: Until It Makes Sense, Touring Exhibition catalogue

Awards
2006: Arts Council – Individual Artist/curatorial Funding Grant
2003: AHRB – Post graduate Scholarship
2002: British Council Travel Grant for Germany
1997: Jane Hewitt Travel Award

Collections
Graphic Department, Staedel Museum, Frankfurt
Städel Museum Graphic Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
David Roberts Collection
University of Arts London
University of Plymouth
Collection Rolf Ricke
Thaddaeus Ropac Collection
Geraldine Gottesman Collection