Conditional @ Acrux Art Gallery
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Conditional @ Acrux Art Gallery

EXHIBITIONConditionalNew work by Caelli Jo Brooker, Alison Smith and Ahn WellsThursday 02 November – Saturday 24 November 2017 |  Acrux Art GalleryOFFICIAL OPENING: Saturday 04 November, from 4pmIn Conditional, Caelli Jo Brooker, Alison Smith and Ahn Wells are drawn together for a second time as a trio, to share their most recent work, and explore conditions of making and creative practice. In this way, Conditional takes for its inspiration the unique and overlapping conditions of their lives, professions and practices.The process of exhibiting collectively, and the curious connections made across three distinctly different creative practices, have surprised and inspired each artist.Navigating the connections…

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04/04/2018
Turning Over @ Art Systems Wickham
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Turning Over @ Art Systems Wickham

EXHIBITIONTurning OverCaelli Jo Brooker, Alison Smith and Ahn WellsFriday 18 November – Sunday 27 November 2016  |  Art Systems WickhamOFFICIAL OPENING: Saturday 19 November, from 3pmTurning Over features new work by three Newcastle based artists Caelli Jo Brooker, Alison Smith and Ahn Wells, whose recent explorations into sculpture, photo media and painting have prompted the group to exhibit together. The exhibition’s title references multiple thematic aspects of the work for exhibition through evoking the turn from day to night, and from two to three dimensions, as well as the shift towards spherical structures, diurnal cycles and expanded scales of focus. Turning Over also represents the amount of both calendar…

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27/09/2017
Connection Exhibition at CStudios
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Connection Exhibition at CStudios

EXHIBITIONConnection08 – 30 August 2015 | CStudiosOFFICIAL OPENING: Saturday 08 August, 2pmARTISTS: Caelli Jo Brooker, Gail Brown, Ruth Chapman, Ileana Clarke, Joyce Clulow, Ros Elkin, Gianna Fallavollita, Linda Greedy, Jeanne Harrison, Judy Henry, Maria Hine, Robin Hundt, Helene Leane, Caroline Lobsey, Margaret Randall, Greg Salter, Susan Hall-Thompson, Cherie Wren"Greenway Gallery* on Swan Street, Morpeth, began its existence as an Artist Run Initiativein 2007. It was founded by a group of dedicated and enthusiastic artists who had met at NewcastleArt School (TAFE Hunter Street Campus).Caroline Lobsey (owner and director), along with Mandy Davies, Ileana Clarke, Roslyn Elkin and Karen Ma (the…

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17/08/2015
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Abstraction Now

ABSTRACTION NOW is a group show featuring Anne McLaughlin, Alison Smith, Bruce Roxburgh, Lezlie Tilley, Ahn Wells, Priya Joy and myself, opening soon @ Newcastle Art Space - NAS alongside the wonderful work of Olivia Parsonage! So if you feel a lack of scribbles, please feel welcome to come along on Friday 03 October, 2014 at 6pm for the opening...

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26/09/2014
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Un-Western Inventions… drawings

Un-Western Inventions are a series of work underway for Abstraction Now – a group exhibition featuring Anne McLaughlin, Alison Smith, Bruce Roxburgh, Lezlie Tilley, Ahn Wells, Priya Joy and myself, opening soon at Newcastle Art Space.14 Drawings of Somewhere Else, 2014crayon on paper 30 x 21cm (each)

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02/09/2014
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Lost in Translation @ The University Gallery

PhD Exhibition | Lost in Translation: the materialisation of the mark in the digital ageLOST IN TRANSLATION, forms the exhibition component of my Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Art) thesis @ Newcastle Uni GalleryOPENING Saturday 1 FEBRUARY from 2pmThis creative work draws on individual experience in the fields of art and design, and extends an ongoing investigation into the abstract gestural mark, involving interwoven streams of material investigation and association across drawing, design, printmaking, painting, sculpture and artists’ books.In exploring multiple themes and concepts, Lost in Translation presents a personal response to the question of how mark-making might materialise in light…

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19/01/2014
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Graphicality Catalogue

artist statementThe making of a single line which immediately implies the divide between ground and ‘not-ground’ and the ontological contrast of mark and non-mark, is where intent resides and the experience of mark-making begins. The line, the mark, the scrawl, the scratch, the grapheme, the trace, the scribble, the drawing, the graphic; at once delineated and designed, spontaneous and considered.Graphicality is evoked within this body of work as a quality of line, an explicitly diagrammatic, painted, written, formed, designed and drawn mark. These works refers to that graphical line and the shapes circumscribed and explored by it – particularly the rhizome.In…

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09/12/2013
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Graphicality @ Greenway Gallery

Graphicality new work by Caelli Jo Brooker @ Greenway Gallery 06, 07, 08 December 2013 Graphicality is a bit of a precursor to the PhD exhibition and a chance to give some of the pieces a little outing before then... -------------------------------- greenway gallery 166 Swan Street Morpeth NSW 2321 hours: mon - thu closed fri - sun 11:00am - 4:00pm phone: 02 4934 6411 --------------------------------

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27/11/2013
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Forgetting Painting…

There has been a great deal of screen time lately spent with words rather than images, so some old sanded down works became the victims of too much time away from the studio...started in the usual way with marks and some more marks, well, lots more marks, really...changed the scale of the marks...bigger lines, different demands of the mark...different painting now...                                                                                  

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31/10/2013
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Gunyah Artist Residency

Gunyah is an artist residency in North Arm Cove, NSW, generously coordinated by Kath Fries. You can see her work at kathfries.blogspot.com.au and www.kathfries.comAndy Devine and I spent a great week collaborating at Gunyah this October...gunyah.blogspot.com.auwww.andydevine.com.au

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03/11/2012
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20:20 Vision

20:20 Vision curated by Graham Wilson@ Art Systems Wickham20 creatives, 20 visions of Newcastle in 2020Caelli Jo BrookerNobbys Island Casino I & II  2012oil, acrylic and crayon on canvas 100 cm x 80 cm each

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12/06/2012
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marked difference @ shopfront

www.shopfrontgallerynewcastle.com'Marked Difference' 2012, monotype, ink, oil, acrylic, crayon, thread, paper, card and chenille sticks (photography: Alison Smith)'Marked Difference' 2012, monotype, ink, oil, acrylic, crayon, thread, paper, card and chenille sticks (photography: Alison Smith)'Marked Difference' 2012, monotype, ink, oil, acrylic, crayon, thread, paper, card and chenille sticks (photography: Alison Smith)

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04/04/2012
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Coast Lines

Cooks Hill GalleriesAugust 2011These works stem from observations of many coasts – not so much the sea itself, but the fringes of the shore, the coastlines, beaches, rock pools, pebbled edges and jetties of many seasides – recalling the baked haze of salty summer beach haunts and the faded glory ofVictorian promenades and pavilioned coastal towns. Foreign seasides recently explored and places always known have both influenced the work for Coast Lines. In this series, Newcastle discerns familiar forms along the Brighton coast and the Hunter Valley finds parallel in the Sussex hinterland. There is a dialogue with shape and a sense…

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06/07/2011
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Light & Earth

Cooks Hill GalleriesFebruary 2009Bold calligraphy, transforming nature through abstract interpretation and asserting the primacy of gesture in expressing a personal vision of the natural world.“...layers of banksia men cluster in forests of russet, red, gold,charcoal and ochre... rapid primal calligraphy captures the distinctive forms of banksia and other ancient bush blooms... abstract and textured layers of oils, acrylic and crayon drawing the viewer into the dappled light and geometric diversity of the Australian undergrowth." Carolyn Swanson (Newcastle Herald, 2009)Warm Serrata 2009 (detail)oil monotype on paperCrimson Serrata 2009 (detail) oil, acrylic and crayon on board Russet Serrata 2009 oil, acrylic and…

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12/03/2011

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