Jack Brook

I came to art through the back door being an artist assistant before I was an artist. The materiality of my work owes a lot not only to the three Brazilian artists I’ve assisted for but also the cabinet maker and builder I worked for before them. 

I use a papier-mâché or paste of cardboard and wood glue that I mix with various wood dyes and other pigments to make painterly wall mounted sculptures. This paste alters dramatically as it dries, darkening and shrinking back in on itself in a way that allows things temporarily hidden underneath to remerge in changed states. This fits in well with themes I explore in my work including alienation and reification (the making real of something abstract).

CardBoard, Glue, Pigments, Polyx Oil on wood

7x11x3.5cm