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Brooke Leigh

b. Sydney, Australia.
Lives and works in EAST SUSSEX, England.

Education

2018

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

2018

‘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

2018

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