Gemma Rose Brook is an Australian painter whose emotive on-location work explores a hypersensitive and embodied experience of landscape. Working from life, her bold compositions, expressive mark-making, and distinctive palette draw on South Australian female modernist and expressionist traditions that inform her contemporary gaze. Her practice is also shaped by feeling into diverse landscapes creating charged psychological narratives within a felt environment. Brook’s work has been exhibited and collected nationally, most recently her nocturnal series launch at Michael Reid Southern Highlands. Her other significant accolades include being selected as a finalist in Paddington Art Prize, the National Emerging Art Prize, the Fleurieu Biennale, and multiple residences both in Australia and overseas at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.
The human experience can be complex in a way that evades words. This is where artists step in. Gemma Rose Brook’s paintings effortlessly grasp the intangible, expressing movement, emotion and meaning where words fall short.
- Poppy Fitzpatrick, Arts Writer
