Meet The Artist
Dawn Brooks
I am a printmaker who uses a variety of media to achieve the finished print, including carborundum, dry-point and screen printing, sometimes all within the same print. As a result some prints are unique whilst others are printed as a numbered edition.
In the past my work has been inspired by the industrial landscape of the North East; abstracting and reducing the imposing structures to their most basic form, portraying the powerful environment of the industrial landscape through expressive mark making and the essential memory of the place.
My most recent series of prints were developed using automatic drawing as a means of expressing ideas from the subconscious.
The resulting drawings are a starting point for the printing plate which is created as a painter might use a canvas, in the sense that the construction of the image is process led - instinctively reacting to marks as they are made.
C.V.
Education
1997–2000 Cumbria College of Art and Design.
BA (Hons) 2:1 Printed Textiles Design
Employment/ Experience
2005 – Present Sessional Worker
Disabled Children’s Service
North Yorkshire County Council
2003 - Present Freelance Community Artist
2002 - Present Studio Holder at Crescent Arts
2007 ‘Stitched up’ - curated a selected exhibition of contemporary textile art
2003 - 2004 Voluntary Education Officer for Crescent Arts
2002 - 2007 Co-ordinated & ran half term ‘Drop - in’ children’s workshops for Scarborough Borough Council
2003 - present Co-ordinates and runs various printmaking courses
Selected Exhibitions
2009
October The Printed Image, Zillah Bell, Thirsk
August The Great North Art Show, Ripon Cathedral
July Recent Works, Scarborough Art Gallery, Coffee Lounge
June Open Studios. Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate.
2008
March Women’s Work, Art Link, Hull
January Open Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
East Coast Open, Scarborough Art Gallery
2007
November First Things First, South Street Gallery, Scarborough
Group exhibition by Crescent Arts Studio Holders, Crescent Arts
May Three selected artists of North Yorkshire Open Studios, Crescent Arts
North Yorkshire Open Studios, Yorko Art Gallery, Harrogate
North Yorkshire Open Studios, Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby
2006
August Group exhibition by Crescent Arts Studio Holders, Crescent Arts
June Yorkshire Coast Open Studios, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
January Open Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
East Coast Open, Scarborough Art Gallery
2005
December Winter Open, Saltburn Artists Project, Saltburn, Cleveland
Residencies
2006 Artist and Poet Residence. Scarborough Borough Council
Awards
Jan 08 Research and Development Grant. Arts Council England
Collections
July 09 The University Of Hull, Scarborough Campus