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.
