Terri Brooks: 20 (2020)

March 4 - 15

TACIT ART
123a Gipps Street, Collingwood, Victoria
Opening Wednesday March 4, 6.30-8 pm

A group exhibition of selected artists as part of Tacit's 20 year anniversary. Each artist was given a 20 x 20" (51 x 51 cm) canvas to work with.

Brown Plain, 2020, oil on canvas, 51 x 51 cm.

Installation image

Line and Weight

'In her seminal 1979 essay ‘Grids’, Rosalind Krauss writes that ‘logically speaking, the grid extends, in all directions, to infinity’. The grid within an artwork is therefore ‘a tiny piece arbitrarily cropped from an infinitely larger fabric’. The paintings in Line and Weight convey both this sense of the infinite spatial grid and, through the building up of layers, the infinite and repetitious nature of time. Washed over, painted across, re-written, line by line.' Anna Dunhill 2019.

Over the Edge

`The neglected zones of urban existence – alley ways, awnings, walls, gutters and shutters – occupy a unique place within the history of painting. Perhaps inadvertently, artists have been depicting such insignificant elements as cracked window ledges or the dark recesses of architraves since the time of Giotto. Ubiquitous, utilitarian and often worn down, the marginal nature of such sites and the phenomenological questions they raise has dominated Terri Brooks practice for the past two decades and continues to inform her work today.' Phe Luxford, 2011.