Details

First Name

Andrew
Last Name

Brooks
Username

andrewbrooks
Website

http://www.ajb-art.com
Region

Edinburgh & The Lothians
Disciplines

Drawing, Film, Installation, Moving Image, Painting, Performance, Sound
Themes

Abstract, Architecture, Landscape, Site-specific, Political, Narratives

Statement

Statement

People and experience are at the centre of my practice.  I am interested in the empathetic connections between the work and those experiencing it and how this can be created from raw data and information.

 

I collect information about the world’s elements to tell stories.  I disassemble the information that I collect to their constituent parts to expose the underlying commonalities and attempt to find the universal.

Biography

Biography

Andrew Brooks is an artist, architect, educator, musician, composer, curator and gallery director.  Alongside making art and music he works as a commercial architect and teaches at ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture).  He is the founder of Concrete Block Gallery.

 

Andrew was born and raised in the Lake District. He studied architecture in Edinburgh and has lived and worked in New Zealand, Australia, and London. He spent 6 years living and working in Bristol where he gained a Masters in Fine Art with Distinction at University of West of England, returning to Scotland in the summer of 2020. His work is multidisciplinary and includes paper-based, video, music, performance and sound installations, as appropriate to each project.