Nell Brookfield

Nell Brookfield’s work begins with close observation of the people around her. From these observations, she creates striking images that are at once familiar and unsettling—an enhanced mirror reflecting not only the visible world, but also the unseen, the unspoken, the repressed, the hidden. Her practice explores reality not as it is typically perceived, but as it emerges in dreams and visions.

Brookfield often incorporates both human and animal figures in her work, using them to evoke the primal instincts and shared vulnerabilities that unite all living beings. She mixes her own pigments to achieve a depth of colour that she envisages for the work, and pays meticulous attention to bodies, gestures, and the tactile qualities of fabric, hair, feathers, skin, and fur.

Nell Brookfield is an artist living and working in London. Brookfield studied MA Painting and Drawing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 2019-2020, after receiving a postgraduate MA-Level from the Royal Drawing School in London, UK, and a BS in Anthropology from the University College London, UK. Solo exhibitions include Duarte Sequeira Gallery, Portugal, Niru Ratnam, London and Eve Liebe Gallery London. Selected group shows include September Gallery, New York; Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China; Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China; Guts Gallery, London, UK; Royal Drawing School, London, UK. Brookfield’s work has been featured by It’s Nice That, Émergent Magazine, The Evening Standard, Duke University Magazine and Strada, amongst others.