Brook Andrew’s (b. 1970, Sydney, Australia) practice primarily examines dominant Western narratives, specifically relating to colonialism, placing Australia at the centre of a global inquisition. Creating interdisciplinary works, video, sculpture, photography and immersive installations, Brook presents viewers with alternative choices for interpreting the world, both individually and collectively, by intervening, expanding and re-framing history and our inheritance. These perspectives are driven by his rich involvement with international and local research practice and his cultural inheritance of Wiradjuri, Ngunnawal and Celtic ancestry growing up in Australia's Sydney area. Apart from drawing inspiration from vernacular objects and the archive he travels internationally to work with communities and various private and public collections.

Brook has exhibited internationally since 1996 in major museums, research centres, public spaces and galleries. Most recently, he was awarded a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institute USA, and has just returned from the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, as a Photography Residencies Laureate, investigating and making new work surrounding the relationship between the colonial photographer and the sitter. Currently Brook is leading the Australian Research Council funded project Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial (2016-2018), an international comparative study designed to respond to the repeated high-level calls for a national memorial to Aboriginal loss and the frontier wars in Australia: www.rr.memorial. Brook is represented by Tolarno Galleries Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels.