MOI PAS VOUS

Egg hunt

2012-02-07T18:14:00.001Z

Installation idea, and in the meantime happily found these lovely images...

Bosch

Tom Frantzen

Breughel

Busy doing..

2012-01-30T22:25:00.005Z

I have been working for Claire Morgan throughout January, helping to build her suspended sculptures (not the one pictured above). Grrrr8 fun but not much time for my own work, back in the studio on Thursday so my life begins again then :)

morning of MA applications

2011-12-29T11:49:00.002Z

booooooooooooooooooooo

Christmas

2011-12-29T11:43:00.001Z

Squirrel finished

2011-12-22T16:15:00.004Z

before...

recently

2011-12-16T12:31:00.001Z

Frozen friends

2011-12-14T10:51:00.002Z

Thanks for the sexy photos and hand Jade Bridgwood

new baby

2011-12-13T17:21:00.001Z

2011-12-08T13:19:00.001Z

2011-12-01T14:39:00.001Z

Click

The Dwarves The Forests

2011-12-01T11:39:00.001Z

Paul McCarthy

PAINT

2011-11-29T16:22:00.001Z

Thanks Hugh

2011-11-21T18:19:00.001Z

Bloody Chamber start material

2011-11-21T16:38:00.001Z

Dance

2011-11-21T12:29:00.000Z

2011-11-17T17:16:00.001Z

hair studies

woodcuts

2011-11-09T18:03:00.002Z

first layer of trial woodcut - he is going to be holding a massive frog when the next layer is applied.

studio wall drawings

2011-11-09T16:25:00.002Z

finished drawing

2011-11-08T21:07:00.000Z

Hangover taxidermy

2011-11-04T12:52:00.001Z

eee-long feet

2011-10-29T12:38:00.001+01:00

++

2011-10-25T15:45:00.000+01:00

morph time

Trickster start

2011-10-25T11:44:00.000+01:00

+ studio wall ATM

Happy graves

2011-10-19T12:38:00.001+01:00

Some kind of happy graves from West Norwood cemetery... It was a sunny warm October? day so I guess everything looked happy! There is a place in Hungary, Săpânţa, where in 1930? a peasant grave carver began to carve the grave markers and paint them to celebrate the lives of the deceased with a scene (about half of them have two painted sides - one showing the deceased as they were in life, and the other showing either the way they died or illustrating some quirk that made them the talk of the village)and a poem describing their fate. So next summer a road trip around eastern Europe je pense...???!!!! more here

print maybes

2011-10-17T18:48:00.001+01:00

orange and bright pink

L.O.L.B.A.B.E

2011-10-17T14:39:00.002+01:00

2011-10-12T17:43:00.002+01:00

potential compositions??

gr8 scans

2011-10-11T16:43:00.001+01:00

Octopus shoulder

2011-10-11T15:07:00.000+01:00

Things for Halloween

2011-10-11T13:19:00.003+01:00

Medical tricks and Victorian treats.....
10am – 5pm, Monday October 24th – Friday October 28th.
The Florence Nightingale Museum, London
Free with the price of admisison

here

+
Sainsbury's keep getting better and better at holiday gifts yet, still made in china... Halloween mummy chocolate coffin!

Sordid Earth

2011-10-10T22:09:00.000+01:00

Saw the private view of Matt Collishaw's Sordid Earth at the roundhouse a few weeks ago and it was amazing, only just remembered how grrr8 it was (we all sat on the floor inside the projection and there were live bongos!) as I'm looking at diseased specimens and am going to steal some of his decomposing flowers to insert into my drawing.

Trickster plans

2011-10-10T21:26:00.002+01:00

3 weeks until the show at the smokehouse goes up and so begins my new drawing...

Treasures of heaven @ British museum

2011-10-10T21:22:00.001+01:00

was a total pile of shit - rushed to see it on the last day and didn't enjoy it at all. The curation was so dull and the only decent? drawing I made was this one..

Totem

2011-10-06T15:23:00.005+01:00

UPDATE

2011-09-26T18:10:00.003+01:00

Have been really busy with new jobs and moving house so haven't been on here for a little while. So quick update - I have some work to be exhibited at the Islington art and design fair (during frieze week but sadly not part of it! Oct 14th-16th) + some work to be exhibited with print club at Christie's multiplied art fair (Oct) then I am going to be in a group show at the new smokehouse gallery in Hackney Wick and then In the Plastic art festival in Brussels both in early November. I am currently working for Claire Morgan so my days are taken up happily threading bluebottle flies onto hr sculptures... we are soon to move into fruit flies so I'll see if my new blindness can handle the tiny things!

Here are some drawings starting off my research for the group show at the smokehouse under the theme 'trickster' - an American folk tale. I'm running with the part animal part human part man part woman section of 'the trickster' so looking at how I can merge man/woman/animal/textures... etc!

Exhibition @ The Golden Lion pub, Gloucester road, Bristol.

2011-08-31T13:24:00.006+01:00

+ new piece of work made for the pub based on glory/trophy hunting

CHiiiiiiNA

2011-08-24T11:13:00.005+01:00

finished TAX

2011-08-23T17:35:00.003+01:00

YAY to Ian Daniell and Adele Morse

Taxidermy day

2011-07-09T20:37:00.003+01:00

<-- drawing of the potential hybrid creature to be created for the Exquisite Corpse festival in NY. Been working with Ian Daniel today and tomorrow is going to be even more exciting...

Rooftop BBQ in Amsterdam

2011-07-09T18:23:00.007+01:00

Blurrred but I'll scan it properly when it's dry and you can pick out the blue people!

Misprint

2011-07-08T18:12:00.002+01:00

Blue was too dark and no yellow but it look so NIIIICCEEE

Blue Layer

2011-07-08T17:31:00.002+01:00

Red layer

2011-07-07T13:27:00.002+01:00

2 to follow

Print day - layer 1

2011-07-06T16:35:00.001+01:00

print possibility

2011-07-05T16:04:00.001+01:00

Sebastienne?

2011-06-30T17:00:00.001+01:00

wood cut experiments

2011-06-30T15:16:00.011+01:00

skinning

2011-06-28T14:10:00.003+01:00

The exquisite corpse festival in New York has requested a piece of taxidermy for their September opening. So working with friend and sculptor Ian Daniel + 1? We are making a hybrid as requested. Animals not quite finalised yet SO IF ANYONE HAS ANY DEAD ANIMALS LET ME KNOW!!!!

wood cuts

2011-06-27T13:57:00.005+01:00

I have been asked to make an edition of 20 wood cuts for concrete hermits new launch, back to basics, so using wood cuts as they are the first form of printing. I am going to make a number of people swimming through a kelp forest with hopefully a 3 colour print. First drafts of divers..

2011-06-24T17:54:00.001+01:00

2011-06-14T17:06:00.003+01:00

Rough for a larger drawing where the horse will be A LOT better/more interesting in the face and the woman will be sat up with armor etc and they will be riding through jungle or something and then the reeds/ vines moving apart exposing a landscape. It will be a lot more interesting.

2011-06-10T11:43:00.001+01:00

underwater mono?

2011-06-07T17:04:00.002+01:00

mono print incorporation

2011-06-06T20:30:00.001+01:00

1 of many to come... bit rough for now but will get better! HOPEFULLY!

whale!

2011-06-02T15:08:00.000+01:00

Mono

2011-06-02T13:17:00.015+01:00

I tried a little mono printing but with the textures and not really concentrating on an image, just how the paper was accepting the ink and how it mixed with water etc. There was a lot A LOT of crap but some really beautiful things were happening.

New drawings

2011-05-31T21:47:00.002+01:00

worst=last

Beautiful end to a horrible day...

2011-05-26T20:26:00.003+01:00

2011-05-23T19:15:00.000+01:00

Nyx start

2011-05-20T11:26:00.002+01:00

I ♥ Peckham

2011-05-19T15:30:00.002+01:00

bought all this wonderful produce from peckham shops this morning, all for under £20 including a PARROT FISH and a PAPAYA!!=

GO DANNY!

2011-05-16T10:28:00.002+01:00

Great film by my friend Danny Morgan

GIVE or TAKE from Umlaut Collective on Vimeo.

Taxidermy workshop

2011-05-13T19:01:00.002+01:00

Went to a really great taxidermy workshop today- it was more about the critical discussion side of things which was great...

2011-05-12T11:48:00.000+01:00

2011-05-09T17:13:00.002+01:00

bacon/ owl/ ganesha

2011-05-09T16:59:00.003+01:00

Stones found on Brighton beach. obviously the bacon one is the best! AMAZING. Then the owl and lastly but still a similarity to the Indian god Ganesha

2011-05-09T16:43:00.005+01:00

click and they get better

2011-05-06T15:43:00.001+01:00

2011-04-30T13:48:00.002+01:00

Ashley whippet

2011-04-28T10:54:00.004+01:00

birth /girth

2011-04-28T09:34:00.009+01:00

ha these pictures were actually in the guardian last weekend (not my drawing)

Finnigan

2011-04-25T09:40:00.004+01:00

muse of the moment

Gael

2011-04-20T13:20:00.002+01:00

Photographer and friend Gael Delhaye has used my taxidermy crow in one of his recent projects, Indian Summer. I think it looks great!

baby

2011-04-19T15:57:00.002+01:00

tessellating ??//.

2011-04-19T15:18:00.003+01:00

Ha. I know this is horrendous but i'm trying some repeating patterns for Frinton Press. Think I may have to do some proper research on tessellating plates
- don't think I can teach myself !

plan.

2011-04-19T11:41:00.016+01:00

Had a bit of a drawing break but there are 4 main drawings planned for my next body of work. The first involves the god of night and her twin sons the gods of death and sleep, it's not going to be too mythology based but packed with symbolism and romance. My trips to the British museum have been my start to this drawing and i'm going to look at baroque and byzantine dress, sleeping animals, contorted humans etc.

The second is taken from Mikhael Bulgakov's 'Heart of a Dog'. I'm drawing greyhounds and their rib cages, man's muscles and giving dog characteristics to man and man's to the dog.

The third is 'The living room', taken from a photo with the same title where a skeleton and a dead man inhabit a room, which I can't actually find anywhere (I will eventually!) but I went to a Morbid anatomy lecture on it and so I'm going to do a take on the title with a lounge filled with... death. The meaning and all will get deeper. ha.

and the fourth is more composition based, mainly a dark image where the only light on the objects is coming from the top left hand corner and so you can just about pick out what is going on where the light catches the object.

Studio wall at the moment...

squashed frog

2011-04-14T11:20:00.000+01:00

Great stuff at the British museum

2011-04-04T17:59:00.013+01:00

faust +

2011-03-30T16:52:00.004+01:00

greyhound studies

2011-03-29T17:40:00.003+01:00

PMU drawings

2011-03-23T15:30:00.007Z

If you can get down to Somerset house before the exhibition closes on Sunday you definitely should! It's really great + I'm doing more drawing there on Friday afternoon.

Little studies

2011-03-15T12:38:00.010Z

Work photographed

2011-03-14T17:18:00.006Z

Bit of a Nightmare day photographing 'Descent Of Life' work. They are so hard to photograph because of the detail so I think I need them done professionally.

New images on website www.katiebrookes.com

Let loose the red cockerel

2011-03-10T13:19:00.003Z

A1 screen print. Come to Pick Me Up too see it properly.

Printing for pick me up!

2011-03-07T17:45:00.006Z

Images for the Print Club section of Pick Me Up

PICK ME UP info

2011-03-01T12:39:00.005Z

So update on Pick Me Up at somerset house, I will be exhibited at the Print Club section of the graphic fair but now also at the It's Nice That section doing some live drawing as part of their 'One-Off' event. Pick Me Up runs from the 17th March to the 27th i think from 10am till 7pm so 10 days of fab time!! here is more info!

Analix Forever - Geneva

2011-02-26T18:15:00.017Z

My work is featured in an auction and a series of events that start today in Geneva at the Analix Forever gallery. I am very honoured to have been mentioned in an article written by Richard Leydier editor of art press on the subject, why drawing? in relation to the auction which is in aid of children. The link to the article and blog is here - click english if you need to

PS: look on list of artists ahhh!!

valentines cucumber

2011-02-18T00:00:00.003Z

going away for a week +

Happy Valentines Day

2011-02-14T11:03:00.000Z

Venus Larger - ultimate love image

STUDIOOOO

2011-02-13T22:03:00.001Z

New studio and it's wonderful view!

Workshop

2011-02-04T10:43:00.002Z

Was in Print Club yesterday at the workshop testing my lines and how the would silk screen for the A1 drawing I am making for Pick Me Up, here is result of one try that I'm not too happy with but it shows that I need to use a thicker nib and detail gets lost a bit when surrounded by block colour.

2011-01-31T18:11:00.000Z

New duck for Mr Hagen

2011-01-28T14:47:00.001Z

Pick Me Up

2011-01-27T00:20:00.004Z

I have very kindly been asked to be a part of the next PICK ME UP at somerset house by Print Club as part of their studio. The brief may be secret so I'm not giving anything away...

Descent Of Life : Private View

2011-01-24T18:33:00.004Z

Exhibition on till the 18th of February so get on down there! Info HERE

Metro today

2011-01-18T20:42:00.002Z

Thanks Jade Bridgwood for picture and Bryony Quinn at It's Nice that for the plug!

Venus finished

2011-01-11T15:01:00.005Z

sorry small again but show in almost a week so come and see it for yourself! Show info on website

AHHH !!!

small update

2011-01-07T10:44:00.005Z

Sorry its been a little quiet on here i've been super busy but a little update on the progress of the work and show...

Amelia's magazine have listed the event here

The ART WORK SPACE website has been updated and looks great now here

Work-wise I have finished 'Warrior' + 'Ivory' + 'Prisons of a mad man's mind/Diaboliad' and I am close to finishing 'Venus' so that leaves me a 10 days to do 'The Highway man' oooohhh mmyy gooodddd its going to be a close call!!

but here is a terrible picture from my computers photobooth of 'Venus'

and this is me with Venus - haaaaaaaa

Venus? start

2011-01-03T19:48:00.002Z

back with better photo

2010-12-29T22:19:00.000Z