Brooke Leigh
b. Sydney, Australia.
Lives and works in EAST SUSSEX, England.
- Education
- Residencies
- Training Mentorship
- Selected Awards, Prizes, Grants
- Solo Exhibition
- Selected Screenings
- Selected Group Exhibition
- Solo Live Performances
- Collaborative Live Performances
- Screenings
- Publications as Author
- Conferences
- Selected Bibliography
- ARTIST TALKS
- INTERVIEWS
- Employment
- Work Experience
- Collections
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Drawn-Out: trace and catharsis, SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)
2015–2016
Master of Fine Arts, (student exchange, visiting scholar), LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS, GHENT, BELGIUM
2012
Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours, Automatic Landscapes, SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, USYD
2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts, (student exchange), CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTITUTE, UK
2005
Third Grade Flute (Distinction), AUSTRALIAN MUSIC EXAMINATIONS BOARD
2006
Theory of Music (High Distinction), AUSTRALIAN MUSIC EXAMINATIONS BOARD
residencies
2021
Artist-in-Residence, ARTERIE, Sydney Local Health District, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Camperdown
2016
Artist-in-Residence, ŠILAINIAI PROJECT: public spaces, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014
2014 Artist-in-Residence, ART PRINT RESIDENCE, Arenys de Munt, Barcelona, Spain
TRAINING/MENTORSHIP
2016
Body as Autonomous Zone, THE SPACE, London, UK
48-hour intensive workshop mentored by performance artist POPPY JACKSON (UK)
Mayday – On the Praxis of Performance, International Performance Art Week Venice, Italy
10-day intensive workshop mentored by VESTANDPAGE (IT)
LUCA School of Arts Mixed Media residency at Destelheide, Dworp, Ghent, Belgium:
Performance workshop with performer Marc Iglesias (BE)
Audio workshop with sound artist Johan Vandermaelen (BE)
2015
Drawing Becomes Performance, Goldsmiths University, London
Workshop with Ram Samocha (curator of Draw to Perform Symposia)
SELECTED AWARDS, PRIZES, GRANTS
2019
Finalist, Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Sydney
2018
Finalist, Royal Art Society Young Artist Award, Lavender Bay Gallery, Sydney
2015
Royston George Booker Scholarship (Grants-in-Aid), scholarship for overseas research, The University of Sydney
2014
Postgraduate Research Support Scholarship (PRSS), The University of Sydney
2012
Finalist, Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Sydney
2011
Jereome De Costa Memorial Award for outstanding academic achievement, The University of Sydney
2008
Awarded first place for Australia, Unilever International Art Project, Tate Modern/National Theatre London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
States of Being, The Gallery | Norwest, Sydney
2018
Alice, Interrupted, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka
2017
Drawn-Out: trace and catharsis, SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2014
TRACES, Alpha Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2017
‘Drawn-Out’ (2017), MCA ARTBAR curated by Julie Rrap, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
‘Searching For Alice’ (2017), OFFoff Moving Word, CAMPO, Ghent, Belgium
2015
‘Read Me’ (2015), OFFoff-ON: Moving Word Part I, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, Belgium
‘Read Me’ (2015), Is This Art?, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre and Regional Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
PAST AND PRESENT TENSE, The Crypt Gallery (St Pancras), London, UK
States and Senses, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED, curated by Rhianna Walcott, ARTEREAL GALLERY, Sydney
DOBELL DRAWING PRIZE #21, National Art School, Sydney
M A N I C, UNSW Art & Design, The Big Anxiety Festival
2018
#ALLTHEFEELS, curated by Rhianna Walcott, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2017
Political Seducer’s Diary, curated by Joy Harris, Instagram Series, Performance Art Houston, USA
2016
The Course of Things Interrupted, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
OFF-off-ON: Moving Word Part II, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, Belgium
Šilainiai Project: exhibition of international art residency, Kabinetas, Kaunas, Lithuania
Boundaries, TUMULT Festival, Ghent, Belgium
A Performative Exhibition, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
AL MÓN, Iluro Foundation, Mataró, Barcelona, Spain
Is This Art?, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre and Reigonal Gallery, Sydney
FFFF, In De Ruimte, Ghent, Belgium
2015
Why So Serious?, NULNULTWEE, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
BETWEEN THE LINES, VERGE GALLERY, SYDNEY
2014
Order/Disorder, Verge Gallery, Sydney
DRAWING ABROAD, GALLERY EIGHT, SYDNEY
2013
Saatchi Screen, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Art Alight!, Verge Gallery, Sydney
2013
Beauty and Difference: Worlds Apart, Unilever International Art Project, Tate Modern/National Theatre London, UK
SOLO LIVE PERFORMANCES
‘Once, Again’, PACT: Salon: The Wild Things, curated by James Nguyen & Digby Webster, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Sydney
2017
‘Drawn-Out’, MCA ARTBAR curated by Julie Rrap, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2016
‘BEGIN’, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
‘Fracturing Silence’, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
‘Sovereignty is Nothing’, public street, LT-48244, Kaunas, Lithuania
‘Silent’, OFF-off-ON: Moving Word Part II, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, Belgium
‘I Am Here’, Venice International Performance Art Week – Workshop Series 2016, C32, Venice, Italy
COLLABORATIVE LIVE PERFORMANCES
2016
‘Chalk Dialogue’ (with Kimvi Nguyen), Draw to Perform 3, Crows Nest Gallery, London, UK
‘mE/Us’ (with Hanna ten Doornkaat), Draw to Perform 3: an international symposium for drawing performance, Crows Nest Gallery, London, UK
‘Po-po-pomo: a Discussion About Hyper-contemperaniety in Art’, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK
CRITIC CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE WITH HANNA TEN DOORNKAAT, ANNE MARIE DENDOWSKY, PATRICK SIMKINS, MARTINA VAN DE GEY, LOUISE ANDERSON, LIZZIE BREWER AND RACHEL PEARCY
SCREENINGS
2017
‘Drawn-Out’ (2017), MCA ARTBAR curated by Julie Rrap, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
‘Drawn-Out’ (2017), MCA ARTBAR curated by Julie Rrap, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2016
‘Breath and Weight’ (2016), LUCA School of Arts Graduation Expo, Ghent, Belgium
‘Rocks, Glass, Skin and One Breath’ (2016), LUCA School of Arts Graduation Expo, Ghent, Belgium
‘Read Me’ (2015), Is This Art?, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre and Reigonal Gallery, Sydney (screening by dLux Media Arts)
‘Read Me’ (2015), OFFoff-ON: Moving Word Part I, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, Belgium
2015
‘Read Me’ (2015), Is This Art?, curated by Alex Sutcliffe, Artereal Gallery, Sydney (screening by dLux Media Arts)
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
Leigh, B., In The Zero Of Form: a solo exhibition by Hanna ten Doornkaat, exhibition catalogue essay (2018), One Paved Court, London, UK.
Leigh, B., Drawn-Out: trace and catharsis, unpublished Master of Fine Arts thesis (2018), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.
2016
Carlson, B., ‘Time trace: A drawn perception,’ Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice 1, no.2 (2016): 223–234. Bristol: Intellect Books.
Carlson, B., ‘Moving Marks,’ PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 115 (Winter 2016). Massachusetts: MIT Press.
2014
Carlson, B., ‘DRAWING ABROAD’, self-published catalogue essay (June 2014), Gallery Eight, Sydney.
2012
Carlson, B., Automatic Landscapes, unpublished Honours Research Paper (2012), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.
CONFERENCES
2014
POPCAANZ Journal of Popular Arts of Australia and New Zealand
Presented research paper entitled, Experiencing The Optical Unconscious at POPCAANZ annual conference in Hobart, Tasmania
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Fairely, Gina. “Review: Dobell Drawing Prize 21”, Visual ArtsHub Australia, 1 April 2019
2018
Clement, Tracey. “Alice, Interrupted”, preview, Art Guide Australia, May 2018.
Jeannette Joy Harris and Steven Martz. “Performing a Seduction: Performance Art Houston’s ‘Political Seducer’s Diary’”, Political Animal Magazine (online), 14 January 2018
2015
Lorange, Astrid. Between The Lines, self-published exhibition catalogue, Verge Gallery, Sydney.
Strevens, Luke. “To Draw”, DRAWING ABROAD, self-published exhibition catalogue, Gallery Eight, Sydney.
2014
McBurnie, Jonathan. “Brooke Carlson: Traces,” SNEAKY Magazine (online), 11 August 2014.
ARTIST TALKS
2022
Artist in Residence Talk + Tour, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse (27 April 2022)
With speaker Gail O’Brien OA, Patient Liaison Advocate
2019
States and Senses, Kudos Gallery (11 May 2019)
In conversation with Noula Diamantopoulos, Sylvia Griffin, Markela Panegyres and Cecilia White
Dobell Drawing Prize #21, National Art School (27 March 2019)
In conversation with Judith Blackall, Scott Elliot, Jonathan McBurnie and Locust Jones
2018
Alice, Interrupted, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (24 June 2018)
Artist Talk to accompany solo exhibition
2016
ŠILAINIAI PROJECTS, BALTŲ PROSPEKTAS, KAUNAS, LIETUVA (27 JULY 2016)
ARTIST TALK AND DISCUSSION OF ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE EXPERIENCE
2015
Between The Lines, Verge Gallery (16 May 2015)
In conversation with Dr Astrid Lorange, Sara Morawetz and Jonathan McBurnie
Bachelor of Arts (Education), Macquarie University (4 June 2015)
Presentation for the Creative Arts unit directed by Dr Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen
2014
Drawing Abroad, Gallery Eight (4 May 2014)
In conversation with Miles Hall, Melissa Howe and Jonathan McBurnie
INTERVIEWS
2019
Gillian Kayrooz, “Culture Guide,” FBI Radio, Sydney, 6 May 2019
Interview with Brooke Leigh and Sylvia Griffin on States and Senses exhibition
Michael Sun, “Culture Guide,” FBI Radio, Sydney, 8 February 2019
Interview with Georgia Saxelby and Brooke Leigh on Nevertheless, she persisted exhibition
Relevant EMPLOYMENT
2021-2022
Studio Assistant, Justin Trendall
2020-2021
Artist Educator + Workshop Facilitator, Live, Love, Learn
2020-2022
Art as Therapy Practitioner, With Brooke Leigh
2020
Artist Educator + Gallery invigilator, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of NSW
All possible combinations – Nadia Odlum
2019
Project Manager, Artereal Gallery, Paddington Pop-Up for Sydney Fringe Festival
2019-2020
Gallery Host + Workshop Facilitator
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
2018-2019
Curator + Mentor, States and Senses, Kudos Gallery, UNSW Art & Design
2015
Curator, Between the Lines, Verge Gallery (The University of Sydney)
2014
Curator, Drawing Abroad, Gallery Eight
WORK EXPERIENCE
2021
Art as Therapy Practitioner (Volunteer), Wesley Mission Hospital, Ashfield, Art + Mindfulness sessions for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Groups
2020
Arterie – Professional Arts and Health Internship Program, Sydney Local Health District, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
2013
Gallery and Exhibitions Internship,
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Collections
2022
Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Sydney Local Health District
BROOKE LEIGH’S WORKS ARE HELD IN VARIOUS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, BELGIUM & THE UK