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Dangerously Modern - En Plein Air Painting Workshop – oil painting with Gemma Rose Brook

Fri 4 July 2025

3-5pm
Ticketed
Meet in The Studio, then surrounding grounds

Members $70, Non-members $90

16 years+ Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult also registered for the workshop
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Capture the interplay of nature and architecture in real time under the open sky and flanked by natural light. Gathering inspiration from the Dangerously Modern exhibition, join contemporary artist Gemma Rose Brook who invites you to paint boldly from life.

All materials supplied, suitable for over 16 years and all levels of experience. Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult who is also registered for the workshop.

Looking towards old and new Sydney, (from NAS), 20 x 25, oil on board. Gemma Rose Brook

Gemma Rose Brook is an Australian painter whose emotive, on-location work explores a hypersensitive and embodied experience of landscape, alongside our emotional narratives held within objects and place. Working from life, her bold compositions, expressive mark-making, and distinctive palette draw on female modernist and expressionist traditions that inform her contemporary gaze. Her practice is also shaped personal experiences of connecting to diverse landscapes and a continued interest in the psychosocial dimensions of environment. Brook’s work has been exhibited and collected nationally, with recognition including selection for the Paddington Art Prize, the Fleurieu Biennale, and a residency at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.