Small Pleasures

Nell Brookfield investigates the emotional and physical spaces between people that are present in both intimate or tense moments; and the feelings of alienation this provokes. Painting with acrylic and oil paint onto canvas and paper, intense colours and patterning accentuate the charged moments between the figures, serving as tools to either mask, or reveal, human instincts of desire, frustration and rejection. 

Brookfield is a London-based artist who graduated from the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year Programme in 2018, previous to this Brookfield received her BSc in Anthropology at UCL. She has recently spent a year studying at the Pratt Institute in New York City. Brookfield has exhibited at September Gallery, The Willis Museum, Eve Leibe Gallery, Matchett & Page Gallery, Christies, Protein Studios, and RISD.

Accolades

Education: 2019-2021 MFA Painting, Pratt Institute, New York City. 2017-2018 Postgraduate MA-Level, Royal Drawing School, London. 2014-2017 BSc, Anthropology, University College London

Exhibitions: Eve Leibe Gallery, Cave Canem, 2021. Guts Gallery, For the Many Not the Few, 2021.@topainterstopaintings selected by Ornis and Jeanine of Althuis Hofland, 2021. Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition, Willis Museum in Basingstoke, 2021. Buildings, Group Exhibition with Matchett and Page Gallery, Somerset, 2020. Curated For Christmas, All Mouth and Bowes Parris, London, 2020. With Love, Virtual Exhibition with @Painttalk, 2020. A Show of Hands, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2020. A Crowded Room, Matchett & Page, Somerset, 2020. Royal Drawing School Alumni Summer Show, Online, 2020. Curated For Covid, Online Exhibition curated by Beth Rodway and Rachael Neale, 2020.