Donald Brook b. 8 January 1927

  • Curator ,
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
The. Yorkshire born Donald Brook first established a reputation as a sculptor, but his most significant impact on Australian art was as the intellectually rigorous critic, professor and art theorist whose ideas exerted a profound influence on at least two generations of Australian artists, curators and writers.
Tags: conceptual art, theorist, art critic, Contemporary art
participated in
Art and Tech Conference/ Working Party
Date
August 1985
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Residential three day program of workshops/seminars assessing Art and Technology. Australian participants included: Jill Scott, Joan Grounds, Jean Marc Le Pechoux, Allan Vizents, Martin Munz, Adam Boyd, Russell Lake, Barry Conyngham, Dr Peter Ellyard, Garry Benson, Stephanie Britton, Simon Biggs and Louise Dauth with a keynote address by Donald Brook

Art & Tech Seminar October 1985 EAF

Type
Other event
Tags
Technology
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
Note
keynote address
participated in
Epistemology of the Visual Arts
Date
April 1979
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Monday afternoon sessions at the Experimental Art Foundation to discuss Donald Brook text

Type
Other event
Tags
Experimental Art Foundation
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
appeared at
Lecture
Date
June 1977
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Donald Brook on formalism, critical assessment of Clement Greenberg’s theories of art

Type
Other event
Tags
Lecture, Experimental Art Foundation
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
Note
gave lecture
appeared at
Art and the Social Institutions
Date
May 1977
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Donald Brook, two lectures

Type
Other event
Tags
Lecture, Experimental Art Foundation
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
Note
gave lecture
appeared at
Art and Architecture Symposium
Date
March 1977
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Donald Brook, Brian Medlin, David Dolan, Bob Ramsay, and others, public discussion of papers given arising from the opening of the environmental sculpture by West German artist Herbert Hajek on the Adelaide Festival Centre Plaza

1. The Social Function of Art
2. The Hajek Commission
3. Cultural Policy in SA
4. Summary of the above (held at the Space, Adelaide Festival Centre)

Type
Other event
Tags
Public Art, Experimental Art Foundation, Architecture
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
participated in
Event
Date
22 April 1972
Place
Queen Victoria Building, Sydney
Description

A public performance arranged by Neil Evans in which the arrival of the invited audience was the work: a forerunner of the twenty-first century 'flash mob’

Type
Performance
Tags
Conceptual art, Performance Art, Audience participation
curator of
The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art
Date
16 July 1971 - 6 August 1971
Place
Central Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Terry Smith and Donald Brook, The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art, was a survey exhibition of conceptual and experimental works in Australia, sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) held at Central Street. David Aspden’s work listed in the catalogue was replaced by a work by James Doolin in the exhibition itself.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
One Central Street