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Alan Brooks (1965)

Biography

Alan Brooks (b. Southend, Essex, UK 1965) studied at Jacob Kramer School of Art, Leeds, Reading University and Slade School of Fine Art. From 1993 he was a visiting lecturer at Reading. He gained an Owen Ridley Drawing Prize, 1990; a Royal Academy Grant, 1991; a Slade Project Grant for study in Berlin, 1992; and a London Arts Board Award, 1996. Group exhibitions have included New Art in Yorkshire, University Art Gallery and St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds, 1987; Into the Nineties IV, Mall Galleries, 1992; Los Angeles Art Fair, 1993; and in 1996 Whitechapel Open at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Royal Over-Seas League Open, where Brooks won first prize. In 1999 Brooks was a prizewinner at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition and a finalist for The NatWest Art Prize, showing abstract canvases meticulously worked up over several months from a rapidly scribbled original. Brooks has had solo shows at Wet Paint Gallery (1994), Marlene Eleini Gallery (1998), Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany (1999), Percy Miller Gallery (2000); and Mobile Home (2001).  The British Museum, Reading University and Huddersfield Art Gallery hold his work.

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British

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