Skip to main content

Mike Brookes

Madrid / Aberystwyth / Sheffield
Contact
Links

Although initially trained as a painter, Brookes' practice has always bridged media. Known primarily for the production of durational objects, images, interventions, and context-specific live art - his work has involved elements as diverse as painting, photography, sampling, large scale and multiple projection, short-range and satellite radio broadcast technology, mobile phones, helicopters, cars, trains, surveillance cameras, ice sculpture and drawing - and has proposed and developed innovative practices and strategies within the form, function, and placement of live art. He co-founded the performance collective Pearson/Brookes with performer and academic Mike Pearson in 1997, their work together being generally perceived to have pioneered mediated and multi-site performance practices - most recently co-creating their large scale located theatre work Coriolan/us, within a vast 1930s aircraft hangar in South Wales, commissioned jointly by the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Wales for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Brookes is currently developing a long-term collaborative practice with Spanish artist and performer Rosa Casado, producing context-specific actions and gallery works under the umbrella title Some things happen all at once, some things happen more slowly, their work having been commissioned and presented widely across Europe, Asia, Australasia, South America, and the USA. In 2007 he was appointed Research Fellow within Aberystwyth University, and received a doctorate for his contributions to intermedial and located performance and live art in 2015.

 

Untitled [ ADIP 3 ]

Untitled [ ADIP 1 ]

Section of a small cement city

One thing leads to another

Untitled (polaroid series #2)

Untitled (polaroid series #1)

Paradise 2 (the incessant sound of a falling tree)

The Persians

Orange jelly pantheon

Wellbeing / welfare

What if everything we know is wrong?

The perfect human (and the things we do)

Become a member

We support our members with: insurance, networks, space, opportunities, R&D awards, profiling, advice and mentoring.
Become a member

Join the UK’s Leading Artist Community

Be part of a caring, mutual aid network. Connect with fellow artists and access insurance, space, opportunities, and support to grow your practice.

Become a Member