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Experience the beauty of the Fife coastline like never before with artist Julie Brook, who will craft a stunning tidal sculpture using locally sourced materials. Drawing inspiration from her walks along the coast and engaging conversations with residents and fellow artists, Julie’s work will reflect the unique character of this breathtaking landscape. READ MORE >
Join this unique conversation for Book Week Scotland, with three of Scotland’s best contemporary artists – visual artist Julie Brook, writer Linda Cracknell and musician and composer Duncan Chisholm – exploring their relationship to the landscapes that nurture, inform and animate their work. FIND OUT MORE >
German documentary festival DOK Leipzig is set to open with German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer’s TRACING THE LIGHT. From the Outer Hebrides in Scotland to the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow to the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen, the film accompanies leading scientists and such internationally prominent artists as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. International DOK Leipzig Festival runs from October 28 to November 3. FIND OUT MORE >
What is it that will last? offers an insight into the extraordinary work of Scottish land artist Julie Brook. Capturing the sculptures she creates in wild and inaccessible locations around the globe through film, photography and drawing, this exhibition explores Brook’s deep and immersive relationship with each landscape and the natural materials she uses. THE WILD SIDE - SHORT DOCUMENTARY > FIND OUT MORE >
Invited to work in Holker Hall deer park, Julie Brook wanted to bring the presence of the raw material of the stone into the environment in contrast to its more formal surroundings, a pile of clogs as we might find in the quarries themselves. This project is a collaboration between Julie Brook, Lakeland Arts, Burlington Stone and Holker Hall. FIND OUT MORE >
Komatsu City Museum and Komatsu City Council invite artist Julie Brook to exhibit her recent work made in Japan and the Hebrides.
Lakeland Arts presents a major solo exhibition exploring Brook’s recent body of work made in stone quarries in Japan in relation to works on a remote coastline of the Hebrides including her iconic work Firestack as seen on BBC4. Brook has chosen a number of key works on paper from the Abbot Hall collection including Turner’s watercolour, St Gothard Pass, Frank Auerbach’s Reclining head of Julia, Alison Wilding’s Boulder II and Barbara Hepworth’s Moonstone. READ MORE >
This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook’s artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook’s practice in the context of critical reflections by Robert Macfarlane, Alexandra Harris and Raku Jikinyū, the publication presents a striking visual narrative of Brook's landscape and tidal sculptural work, and a sense of its timeless yet contemporary resonance. READ MORE >
This new exhibition features sculpture and works on paper from sculptors Julie Brook, Ann Christopher, Steve Dilworth, Abigail Fallis, Susie MacMurray, Charlotte Mayer, Eilis O'Connell, Peter Randall-Page, and George Taylor. As the paradigm of what a sculpture can be made of shifts over the years, Pangolin London has endeavoured to capture the expansive way in which sculptors respond to the world around them. For the first time, Feathers, Bones and Stones explores not only nature as inspiration but nature as a source of material. Exhibition now on at Pangolin London until 19th March 2022. FIND OUT MORE >
Julie Brook’s work from Japan and Namibia has been published in this new book: DESTINATION ART (ART ESSENTIALS) by Amy Dempsey. Discover some of the world’s most inspiring artworks – each unique to its place and setting, and creating a destination in its own right. The journey to the sites is often part of the thrill, with many artworks to be found in deserts, forests, rivers and seas, on farmland and mountains, and in ghost towns, nature reserves, former industrial sites, quarries and monasteries. Others may be hidden gems in cities or artists’ backyards. READ MORE >
Ikon presents a winter film programme, organised to coincide with the gallery’s exhibition Faster Than Ever. Julie Brook´s film Pigment (2013) available to watch via Ikon’s website and YouTube channel. FIND OUT MORE >
As Julie Brook debuts her new work in Pangolin’s new exhibition for Nature Unwrapped on the gallery level at Kings Place, she and Robert Macfarlane discuss the elemental forces at play in her work and preview her films. Don´t miss their talk on Wednesday 29th january at 7:30 pm. FIND OUT MORE >
For the past 25 years Julie Brook has lived and worked in a range of wild, remote places in her quest to connect to the land and nature. Her commitment to her work has taken her all over the globe to remote and uninhabited parts of Scotland, the deserts of central and south-west Libya, the semi-desert of north-west Namibia and most recently stone quarries in Japan Bringing the four elements of earth, wind, fire and water together in one striking piece Brook’s Firestack series invites a visceral response to the rhythms of tide, time and gravity; the power of the weather; making and destruction. Each Firestack takes three to four days to build between the tides using the same method used for drystone walls. The firings are documented by film and their duration depends on the weather conditions of that season reaching a powerful climax of quiet extinguishment or dramatic fall. DOCUMENTARY CLIP: BUILDING BETWEEN TIDES NOW ON VIMEO > FIND INVITE >
Julie Brook will be showing 2 Firestack films in Glasgow at Celtic Connections, Spring 2019, Summer 2017 and a clip of documentary about the process by Fran Robertson. They will be screened on Saturday 18th January 2020 all day throughout the day whilst the various concerts are on all at Royal Concert Hall Glasgow. FIND OUT MORE >
3 short films - a choreography of time through the elements. Fire and water compete for dominance in these tidal works through differing climatic seasons. Screenings during November 7th - 11th / 2018 / READ MORE >
The exhibition will be opened by former director of NAGN, Hercules Viljoen with a keynote speech from Dello and Elvis Kasaona. Official opening on 28th June 2018 at the National Art Gallery of Namibia at 18h. READ MORE >
An Cuan Sgìth is a two-year Gaelic visual arts exchange project between young people from Bun-sgoil Shlèite, Skye and Bun-sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich, Benbecula working with professional artists led by Julie Brook. Preview on Monday 14th May at 6.30pm at the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Atrium, ACC. READ MORE >
Julie Brook´s Installations will be opened from Thursday 3rd to 6th May 2018. There will be a Public Talk by the artist on Saturday 5th May at 2 pm in the Peter Scott Building, all welcome [ Howegate, Hawick, TD9 OHJ ] FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ALCHEMY FESTIVAL >
Parallel Space opening at 3pm on 21st April 2018 at Takigahara Quarry. There will be a Public Talk at 9pm at Takigahara Farm on the same day. READ MORE >
A sculptural journey across continents from the Hebrides to Japan. Artist´s talk will take place on February 27th 2018 at 6pm, at Magadalen College in Oxford. You can still enjoy the exhibition until 14th April 2018 at Saïd Business School, Oxford. READ MORE >
A sculptural journey across continents from the Hebrides to Japan. A talk will be given by the artist followed by the opening of the exhibition at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University on Wednesday, January 24th at 17.45. READ MORE >
An Cuan Sgìth is a two-year Gaelic visual arts exchange project between young people from Bun-sgoil Shlèite, Skye and Bun-sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich, Benbecula working with professional artists led by Julie Brook and organised by Lasair Ealain. Exhibition at Taigh Chearshabhagh, North Uist. January 12- February 24 2018 READ MORE > INVITE >
Long-time Dovecot collaborator, and Daughters of Penelope artist, Julie Brook takes us on a journey from Namibia to Japan via Dovecot. Telling the story of her rug collaboration with Dovecot, through the realms and environments she explores in her artistic practice, to her most recent collaborations and research in Japan. READ MORE >
Julie Brook received awards from Creative Scotland , Daiwa Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for research and development over two years in Harris and Lewis, Hebrides and in the Komatsu Quarries, Japan beginning November 2017. The work will be explored in parallel to one another in these two contrasting environments exploring their physical and cultural differences.
In February 2017 Brook did a public talk with 15th generation Raku teabowl maker, Raku Kichizaemon XV during the exhibition, The Cosmos in a Teabowl at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, exhibiting teabowls from all 15 generations of the masters beginning with Chojiro. The exhibition has recently now opened at the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. NHK news filmed the talk between them both and Brook’s visit to his workshop in Kyoto. WATCH FILM >
Julie Brook will give a public talk on Saturday April 1st at 1.15 at the RSA, Edinburgh. The talk will explore the desert work in Libya and Namibia in more depth and be given a context through the Scottish work in the Hebrides. She will also talk about a new project she is proposing to do in Japan in 2017/18. READ MORE >
Julie Brook will be doing a public talk with Raku Kichizaemon XV at MOMAK, Kyoto, Japan on February 5th at 2pm in the entrance lobby hall. READ MORE >
Julie Brook´s 'The red pigment drawing' appears on trailer for the upcoming 'Trainspotting 2', directed by Danny Boyle. WATCH TRAILER >
A new documentary about Land Art presented by James Fox with work by David Nash, Julie Brook, James Turrell, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy. Transmission date - The BBC4 programme 'Forest, Field and Sky: Art out of Nature' which will be at 9pm on May 3rd. READ MORE >
Deep Talk into the Night: Julie Brook in conversation with Philip Hoare. On 4th November at 9:15pm, at Faclan - Hebridean Book Festival, An Lanntair, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. READ MORE > FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FACLAN 2016 >
In May 2016 the Daiwa Art Prize shortlisted artist Julie Brook made her first visit to Japan, meeting renowned Japanese artists across a variety of disciplines and introducing the Japanese public to her work and practice. This talk will introduce a London audience to the nature of Brook’s practice, where she makes sculptural work inspired by the specific environments she inhabits using materials found to hand such as earth, pigment and stone. On October 12th at 6pm, at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House. READ MORE > JULIE BROOK TALK AT THE DAIWA FOUNDATION >
Brook will make her first work trip to Japan in May/June 2016. She will give a public talk on May 24th at the Midori-so2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. READ MORE >
Exhibition Made, Unmade at An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. March 19 - May 1 2016. Public talk on Thursday March 24 2016. Multi-screen installation with new work from North West Namibia.
Radio Scotland interview on the Janice Forsyth Culture show. Radio Scotland Tuesday March 29 1400 h.