Jim Brook (b. 1995, Dewsbury, UK) is an artist based in West Yorkshire. He received his Master of Arts from Leeds Arts University in 2020, following the completion of his undergraduate studies at the same institution in 2018. Brook's interdisciplinary practice spans a variety of media, including the ready-made, sculpture, photography, and textiles, through which he critically engages with themes of masculinity, identity, class, home, and folk culture. Central to his work is a reflection on his personal lived experience, utilizing both object-based and conceptual methodologies to interrogate the complexities of these intersecting socio-cultural issues.

Brook's practice is deeply concerned with the exploration of identity within the context of working-class heritage, drawing on the symbolic and material associations of everyday objects and vernacular forms. Through this, he examines how these elements resonate within broader narratives of cultural memory, class structures, and the construction of masculinity. His work invites critical engagement with the ways in which personal history and collective experience shape notions of selfhood and belonging.

Jim Brook
(b. 1995, Dewsbury, UK)
Lives and works in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire

Education:

  • Master of Arts (MA), Leeds Arts University, 2020
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Leeds Arts University, 2018

Awards and Grants:

  • DYCP, Arts Council England, 2024/2025

Residencies:

  • Artist in Residence, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, October 2023

Selected Exhibitions:

  • NEW NOW, Guts Gallery, London, 2024
  •  Common. Group show, London 2025
  • This Is Your Life, Collective Ending, London, 2023 (with Mitch Vowles)
  • To Have and To Have Not, Village Books, Leeds (Solo Exhibition), 2022
  • The Top 100, The Auction Collective, London, 2021
  • 2:A, WDT Gallery, Middlesbrough (Solo Exhibition), 2022
  • Rich Tea, Village Books, Leeds (Solo Exhibition), 2021
  • This Way For Fun!, Village Books, Leeds (Solo Exhibition), 2020
  • Shot Pint Riot, Studio 1.1, London (Group Exhibition), 2023
  • Raum, Zeit -> Irgendwas, Neue Archaik, Hanover (Group Exhibition), 2021

Selected Publications:

  • "You Kind of Smell It, This Is It, It's On", Ceremony Press, 2022
  • Grass Fed Cows, Salt n Pepper, 2021
  • Rich Tea, Tide Press, 2021
  • This Way For Fun!, Ceremony Press, 2020

 

 

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