Frontier Lights - Brook Andrew

Through his work, in a variety of areas, Brook Andrew is a fervent and forthright social commentator who explores the history of race relations in Australia, as well as colonialism, ethnography, cultural identity, gender politics, globalisation, and other themes. By employing powerful post-modern imagery, delivered with sociological savvy and slick visual appeal, his high impact, high-energy works are immediate, urgent, and can be at once both beautiful and humorous. They comment on, and elicit responses from, both Indigenous and non-indigenous viewers through a variety of computer-generated photo-media, including conventional screen print neon projected onto large-scale screens lit from behind, and printing on to Duraclear, a material conventionally used in advertising. Created on a large scale, and produced in a refined yet glossy pop style, his works are provocative, challenging, and visually dynamic.