Gemma Rose Brook is an Australian plein air painter, based on Kaurna land. Her work has been selected for The Paddington Art Prize, Heysen Biennale, The National Emerging Art Prize, The Fleurieu Biennale and won first prize in the Royal Society of the Arts SA, 'Youthscape' prize. She has been awarded multiple residencies including the prestigious Country. Arts POP residency on Kangaroo Island and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice. Her work has been exhibited and collected nationally most recently at Michael Reid. Southern Highlands and the Adelaide Festival Centre. Her intimate paintings with a unique expressive mark and distinctive palette draws on modernist, colourist and formalist depictions of the subjects she paints from life. The paintings she creates explore an hypersensitive and embodied experience of environments that is informed by her perspective as a neurodivergent artist with a psychosocial disability.
