c/o Craft ACT
an exhibition at CraftACT (an event in the 7th edition of Design Canberra), including Zooming Mindfully, a digital animation by Tim Brook and Ruth Hingston based on embroidery by Ruth Hingston
The Coronavirus pandemic has introduced new ways to retain our connections with each other while we maintain physical distance. Now our social interactions are mediated by the screen. Zoom has become a popular digital platform to keep in touch, to foster our care for one another and maintain our mental health.
My regular Mindfulness meditation group’s practice has been transformed by Zoom this year. Usually we travel to a physical space together at a specific time. Now we Zoom in together from around the country from different time zones. Sometimes it seems absurd that we sit in front of our screens in our separate homes, quietly isolating and logging on to Zoom, so that, as a group, we can close our eyes to meditate mindfully together.
One of our practices is to apply our mindfulness focus on an absorbing activity we enjoy, such as knitting, drawing or sewing. Although we are mostly silent in the presence of others, it seems we are all pleased to see each other, smiling and waving as we arrive and depart. I look forward to Zooming in again next week.
29 October–12 December 2020
Nilsson 2020
An artist’s talk at Canberra Glassworks by Peter Nilsson, including a digital video by Tim Brook
Peter Nilsson has had a studio glass career for over thirty years in Sweden and Australia. Inspired by Scandinavian folklore and a fascination of nature, Nilsson’s work examines the fluid boundaries between humans and nature and the fragile relationship they share. Nilsson will discuss the interplay between shape and picture in his latest work as well as techniques that involve expert recycling of discarded glass, laminated and kiln formed glass and enclosed engravings.
Tim’s video documents both his work and his working process.
on Thursday 17 September 2020
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[dash]topia
A group exhibition in the 2019 Design Canberra festival, including Bad Keys, a code art work by Tim Brook and Caren Florance
Subvert and convert the online hurt
Bad Keys builds on Florance’s research into online misogyny and trolling. This work uses systems of communication to explore ways to subvert and convert the hurt that we often carry around with us after encountering insults and verbal attacks online.
Abstraction is the main strategy: words morph into webs of lines that simultaneously disconnect and connect. This is unloading, not downloading.
6 November–22 November 2019
Australia Inland
an exhibition of straight photography at the Cork Street Gallery: unmanipulated closeups assembled slowly over 25 years
11 July–8 September 2019
Line Work
an exhibition of works by Caren Florance at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, including Bad Keys, code art works made in collaboration with Tim Brook
Subvert and convert the online hurt
Line Work builds on Florance’s research into online misogyny and trolling. This exhibition uses new and old systems of communication to explore ways to subvert and convert the hurt that we often carry around with us after encountering insults and verbal attacks in person and online.
Abstraction is the main strategy: words morph into webs of lines that simultaneously disconnect and connect. This is unloading, not downloading.
4 July–27 July 2019
Australian Landscapes
A digital video installation by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna in Gallery 2 at M16 Artspace, Griffith ACT
Quiet, contemplative and immersive, Australian Landscapes is a digital video installation that invites your imagination. It evokes memories of quiet moments in inland Australia, when you become absorbed in the visual richness of surface details. Very slowly, the work reveals a delicacy of detail and a harshness of ground so characteristic of the Australian inland.
14 June–1 July 2018
Trenuci bez naslova
A screening at Galerija 42°, Cetinje, Montenegro, of a digital animation by Tim Brook, Ruth Hingston and Alistair Riddell
on Friday 27 April 2018
Lucence
Screenings of a series of works by staff and graduates of the ANU School of Art, including Untitled Moments a digital animation by Tim Brook, Ruth Hingston and Alistair Riddell
on Friday 21 April 2017
Common Ground
An exhibition of work by members of PhotoAccess, including Propaganda, by Tim Brook
30 March–23 April 2017
Hill End: Seven Decades
an exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery that traces seventy years of artistic responses to the historic town of Hill End, including A Reflection on Haefliger Cottage by Tim Brook
4 March–21 May 2017
Connect with your nature
An exhibition at the National Archives of Australia, including Gudgenby, a digital video by Tim Brook
8 April–14 May 2016
The Third Wave
This exhibition celebrates 20 years of the Hill End Artists in Residence Program. It is curated by Sarah Gurich. The works are drawn entirely from Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s permanent collection, including photography by Tim Brook and sculpture by Ruth Hingston.
1 August–28 September 2014
Fire Station
A screening at PhotoAccess, including a multimedia work by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna
19 February–30 March 2014
Shaping Canberra
An exhibition at the ANU School of Art Gallery, Ellery Crescent, Acton ACT, curated by Ruth Hingston for the centenary of Canberra, including Fire Station, a multimedia work by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna
This exhibition highlights the variety and inventiveness of professional artists who live and work in Canberra. It includes works in a wide range of media, from embroidery to digital animation. Each work in the exhibition draws on material from a local collection of cultural material. Each celebrates an aspect of the lives and experiences of real Canberrans, people who have worked, raised families, played sport, made art and created communities, unaffected by the antics of the fly-in-fly-out politicians whose pronouncements are routinely attributed to a mythical ‘Canberra’.
18 September–19 October 2013
100 Views of Canberra
A book launch and an exhibition of photographs at PhotoAccess, Griffith ACT, celebrating Canberra’s centenary, including Roll This Way a photograph by Tim Brook
1 August–28 August 2013
25th Anniversary Portfolio
An exhibition curated by David Chalker at PhotoAccess, Griffith ACT, including Rijeka Crnojevića a photograph by Tim Brook
13–30 June 2013
Static Display
Objects from the Canberra Fire Museum, including a collection of prints and reproductions assembled by Tim Brook and Ruth Hingston
Saturday 15 June 2013
Twelve Months
A group exhibition at The Photography Room, 14 Foster Street, Queanbeyan NSW, including prints by Tim Brook
For several years I’ve photographed partially reflective surfaces (ponds, windows, billabongs, spectacles…). Ambiguities result—not ambiguities constructed but ambiguities revealed—ambiguities that give voice to opposites. Partial reflections reveal both connections and contradictions between opposite viewpoints. And Haefliger Cottage breathes contradictions.
Originally Haefliger Cottage was an unassuming dwelling for a miner; now it bears a heavy load of history. It’s twisted with age. Nothing’s quite square. Nothing quite joins. Time has allowed a liquid flow of glass in the panes of the windows and the bookcase. The thicknesses of glass have become uneven and the panes now distort every view (just a little) and every reflection (just a little more). Reflections on Haefliger’s Cottage is a collection of these views and reflections. All faithful, none true.
24 November–16 December 2012
Observations
An exhibition of photomedia work by Tim Brook, curated by Ruth Hingston, in The Photography Room, upstairs at The Artists Shed, 14 Foster Street, Queanbeyan NSW.
3 August to 2 September 2012
Untitled Moments
A screening at PhotoAccess, Manuka ACT, of a digital animation by Tim Brook, Ruth Hingston and Alistair Riddell
Slow, quirky and very Canberra, Untitled Moments is a digital animation based on embroidery.
Untitled Moments is a collaborative project exploring the visual impact of embroidery and photography in a digital animation. We’ve used digital technologies to combine images and sound to create narrative fragments—imagined incidents drawn from our observations of Canberra’s most unremarkable moments.
The resulting work does not attempt to mimic cartoons or conventional animations. It’s a pastiche, an idiosyncratic mixture of embroidery, drawing, watercolour, photography, scanography, digital animation, field recordings and digitally generated sounds. The final effect is sometimes contemplative, sometimes deliberately cheesy.
5–29 April 2012
Art Machine
An exhibition of code art at the ANU School of Art, Acton ACT, including Rebalanced, a code art work by Tim Brook
Art Machine is an exploration into the boundaries between digital art, code art and new media installation.
What exactly constitutes an artwork—the intent of the artist, the materials used in the production, the mode of presentation, the experience of the viewer? Art Machine aims to explore these notions by staging an exhibition where artistic intent, content, production materials and final presentation of an artwork operate independently of each other and yet combine to create an art experience.
Art Machine will pit locally coded digital art machines against text, images, video and sound submitted by you via Art Machine’s 24/7 online submission system—artmachine.tv.
Art Machine is accepting submissions, so browse to artmachine.tv and contribute your text, image, video and sound—your digital submissions will form the backbone of this unique exhibition and art experience.
7–30 July 2011
Noise
An exhibition at PhotoAccess, Griffith ACT, including a digital video by Tim Brook and Paul Kirwan
9 April–8 May 2011
Embracing Innovation
An exhibition at CraftACT, Canberra City ACT, including Untitled Moments, a digital animation by Tim Brook, Ruth Hingston and Alistair Riddell
31 March–7 May 2011
Enduring Intimacy
Dance theatre at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT
24–25 November 2008
Nije Crna
An exhibition at PhotoAccess, Griffith ACT as part of Vivid, the national photography festival, including an installation by Ruth Hingston and Tim Brook with Lea Collins
14 June–17 July 2008
Рад у Току
An installation at the Academy of Fine Art, Cetinje, Montenegro
1 November 2007
Traces d’un Passage
An exhibition at «la Genette», 30440 St Roman de Codière, France
October 2006
Hill End in Camera
An exhibition of photographs curated by Gavin Wilson at the Hill End Art Gallery, Hill End NSW, including A Reflection on Haefliger’s Cottage №6 by Tim Brook
9 March–10 May 2006
Works in Progress
An artist’s talk at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, including screenings of Works in Progress, a slide-tape sequence by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna after works by Ruth Hingston
Saturday 15 October 2005
Frames of Reference
An exhibition of photographs, curated by Alison Bennett, at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, including Hill End photographs by Tim Brook
Hill Endis a massive work of fiction, a story-telling project spanning generations. It is more than a place—it is a dense web of images, narrative, mythology; a site of contested meaning. Frames of Reference is an exhibition of photographs of Hill End from 1872 to 2005. It features the work of Russell Drysdale, Beaufoy Merlin, and 11 contemporary photographers—Alison Bennett, Tim Brook, Dacchi Dang, Sarah-Mace Dennis, Brett Hilder, Svenja Kratz, Cathy Laudenbach, Heidrun Lohr, Catherine Rogers, Greg Weight and Glenn Woodley.
14 October–27 November 2005
Composition & Context
An exhibition of photographs by John Crossley, curated by Tim Brook, at the CEMA Gallery, Monash University, Clayton VIC, later touring in Victoria and South Australia
20 August–1 October 2004
then touring until March 2005
Reflections on Haefliger’s Cottage
An exhibition of photographs by Tim Brook at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
1 August–14 September 2003
Hill End Reflections
An exhibition of photographic prints by Tim Brook at Artholes Gallery, 128 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy Vic
16 August–28 August 2002
On the Line
An exhibition of works in miscellaneous media at The Booking Office Gallery, Bungendore NSW, including photographs by Tim Brook and mixed media works by Ruth Hingston
27 May–15 July 2001
Canberra Dreaming
Choreographed movement and visual music in the Canberra Festival, performed at The Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston ACT
16–18 March 2000
Small Change
A concert of visual music in the Canberra Festival, at the National Film and Sound Archive, Acton ACT, including slide-tape works by Tim Brook
5–7 March 1999
Bingo Night
A concert of audio-visual works at the Australian Centre for The Arts and Technology, Acton ACT, including Lines, a slide-tape piece by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna
Thursday 26 November 1998
Beware Dogs Bite
Screenings at the the Goldfields Arts Centre, Kalgoorlie WA, including slide-tape pieces by Tim Brook with music by Len Duke and Arne Hanna
on Thursday 24 November 1994
The Exhibitionists
An exhibition at the School of Applied Arts and Design, Watson ACT, including Disparately Seeking Illusion, a selection of photographs by Tim Brook
5 May–18 May 1994
Newsense
A performance of intermedia art at Strother Theater, Ball State university, USA, including Goyboys, a slide-tape piece by Tim Brook and Dan Senn
Monday 5 September 1988
Ghost of a Chance
Music theatre at Images, Dickson ACT, including a slide-tape piece by Tim Brook and Len Duke
on Friday 13 February 1987
Fat Gods, Skinny Gods
A theatrical production at TAU Community Theatre, Braddon ACT, including a slide-tape piece by Tim Brook
Fat Gods, Skinny Gods considers the influence of adult-created myths on young people in the process of finding a balance between fantasy (how life could be) and reality (how it is).
The material for Fat Gods, Skinny Gods was developed from many weeks of group discussion and workshopping. It was my task to find the appropriate images and language to express what was often an emotional feeling of the individuals or group.
In so doing, I did not attempt to dilute these emotions. What is presented intends to reflect what very often is a ploy (unintentional or not?) by society to deceive us into believing that a brighter tomorrow can be bought on a time plan.
Fat Gods, Skinny Gods is presented as a piece of symbolic, hopefully provocative, theatre—interweaving a well-known fairy story with contemporary reality. Like the majority of our productions at TAU, it is an original, group-devised work, which is developed from a long and demanding workshop process involving considerable risk.
We hope you find the performance stimulating.
Domenic Mico
24 June–29 June 1985
Forest of Gods
A theatrical production at TAU Community Theatre, Braddon ACT, including a slide-tape work by Tim Brook
14–17 November 1984
