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Nell Brookfield
b.1994, London, UK
lives and works in London (UK)


Nell Brookfield (b. 1994, London) currently works and lives in London. Brookfield offers humorous and bizarre compositions taken from her everyday experiences. Inspired by people around London, films, and books, Nell paints from observation, memory and imagination with acrylic and oil paint on linen. Unexpected crops show intimate sections of what could be larger works, asking the viewer to imagine what might lie just beyond the composition. Each work is covered in detailed patterns and texture, accentuating the charged moments. Nell hopes the viewer will consider what it would be like to reach out and touch the fabrics she paints, or exist within the work.

Nell Brookfield completed her postgraduate in Drawing from the Royal Drawing School in 2018 and received her BSc in Anthropology from UCL in 2017. Between 2019 and 2020, Nell studied Drawing and Painting at the Pratt Institute in New York. She was awarded a residency at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018.

Highlights of her recent exhibitions include: NADA Miami 2023, presented by Tabula Rasa Gallery (Miami, 2023); Tabula Rasa: Unveiled, No.9 Cork Street (London, 2023); Real Plastic Roses, Duarte Sequeira Gallery (solo, Portugal, 2023);  Platform: London by David Zwirner (London, 2022); The Sky Above the Roof, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2022);  When the Knife Hits the Plate, Scream, Niru Ratnam Gallery (solo, London, 2022); You Are What You Eat, Eve Leibe Gallery (solo, London, 2021); just to name a few. 



RELATED EXHIBITIONS
NADA Miami, Miami 2023
Tabula Rasa: Unveiled, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, November 2023
The Sky Above The Roof, Group show, Tabula Rasa Beijing, June 2022

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