Geoffrey Drake-Brockman

Geoffrey Drake-Brockman has been exhibiting since 1986 with shows in New York, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Denmark, and London.  He has held major exhibitions at the Morris Museum in metropolitan New York (2018), Singapore Art Museum (2010), the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2007), the National Gallery of Australia in 2005 and in 2001, the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (2004), the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (2002), Collaborative Concepts in New York (2002), and Sculpture by the Sea (Bondi, Cottesloe, and Aarhus/Denmark; 2001 - 2014). His large-scale installation "SKY" featured at Brisbane Curiocity 2019 and at the Perth Winter Arts Festival of 2017. Solo exhibitions include Moana Chambers (2022), Moores Building Contemporary Art (2021), Linton and Kay (2016), Goddard de Fiddes (1997), Fremantle Arts Centre (1993) and The Hooper Gallery in London (1991).

Geoffrey has undertaken numerous large-scale public art commissions including the eleven metre tall interactive robotic artwork “Totem” (2012) at the Perth Arena, an interactive LED matrix "Surface" (2016) at Perth Childrens Hospital, the external Sculpture "One" (2019) for the University of Canberra, and a kinetic work titled “Readwrite" (2014) for the NEXTDC Data Centre in Malaga. Geoffrey won the Guinness Collection contemporary automata Best in Show and Peoples Choice awards in 2018, the National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Prize Highly Commended Award in 2001 and the Peoples’ Choice Award in 2005,  the Princess Margaret Search for Genius Art Award in 2003, and the Sir Charles Gardiner Art Award in 1993.

Geoffrey Drake-Brockman was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1964 and is based in Perth, Western Australia. Geoffrey completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Western Australia in 1985 and a Master of Visual Arts at Curtin University in 1994. Geoffrey  trained as a painter at Art School and his early work was figurative, colourist, painting. Since 2000 his work has been primarily sculptural and technology-enabled. The artist notes; “I am interested in the social impact of technology, a theme which I approach formally with geometric and colour based composition, as well as implementing electronic, interactive systems in my work. I seek to create autonomous works that are able to support unique, emergent, ongoing dialogues between viewer and art object”.

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