Brooke Ellen Louttit
Brooke Ellen Louttit is a Sydney-based artist, performer and curator. Over the past seven years Brooke has been developing her painting style in a series of weather-focused works. Her five solo exhibitions were painted in situ while studying storms, cloud formations and fluctuating light in locations that experience extreme, abrupt weather changes. This investigation resulted in large-scale, heavily textured and layered works. In 2018 Brooke will be travelling to the Northern Territory to pursue this ongoing investigation in her painting practice.
Early next year, Brooke will be workshopping a new performance concept titled Time > Arrow as a part of the Stacks Projects 2018 Live Works program. The work will be a meeting of the scientific study of time's arrow and how the body moves through space. Brooke’s fascination with the body and its association with the surroundings is a consistent theme in her work. She is particularly interested in how space can choreograph movement, and the body’s spontaneous response to different conditions. An example of this would be Brooke’s improvised movement piece Songs from the Perimeter, performed at the National Gallery of Australia and Wollongong Art Gallery as a part of the Australian Surrealism exhibition.
Brooke's work for this event, See; Connect, is a melding of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present and the theatre focus game Mirror and involves audience participation. It is a simple, conceptual work—but this is sometimes the most effective way to communicate.
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