Joanne Brooker 

Art is my language. 

This is how I interact, how I make comment, how I reflect back the influences, experiences and situations that affect me. To do this, I use

the tools I have a connection to, primarily acrylics, oils and ink.

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Acrylics allow me to work in semi-opaque layers, creating fine detail, working quickly to capture an exacting vision.

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Oils attract me with intense colours, creamy textures and unpredictability.

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Ink is exacting, bold, and graphic; this medium fulfils my need for clarification, negative space and the haiku of line.

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My work is strongly influenced by the imagery available to me as a child. Comics, graphic novels, TV cartoons and fantasy movies.

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They taught me economy of line, visual narrative, layout, animation and character creation.

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Time spent as a child studying the illustrations from Alice in Wonderland, the Arabian Nights, Hans Christian Anderson, taught me colour

and detail, the delicacy and power of the black line, the joy of grotesquery and the connections between illustration and words.

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My paintings are Streams of Consciousness, each paint stroke and colour combination is a moment in time, a thought, a feeling.

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 All of these skills were brought to my ten years as an editorial artist for News Ltd newspapers, The Courier Mail, from 1992 to 2001,

creating political and social comment on a daily deadline. I learnt realistic attitude to art creation, the business of art and the power

political cartooning. I have spoken on many media industry panels, Writers Festivals, Art Festivals  and run workshops around the world

on this subject.

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On leaving the media world in 2001, I travelled, discovering a new context for my work. I have exhibited my art in Qatar, Dubai, Bolivia,

China, France, UK and Australia.

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I live in Brisbane Queensland Australia.